Yotta Games is hiring: Senior Narrative Designer in El Segundo

Senior Narrative Designer

Why Join Us

Yotta’s huge fanbase has helped turn us into a globally ranked game developer with offices worldwide. Despite our success, at heart we are still players trying to create exciting and engaging, never-before-experienced games. That drive to make games that we want to play is what animates our well-resourced, ambitious, creative team members. Working together in a supportive, open workplace and taking cues from our gaming communities, we create products that entertain the world.

Responsibilities

We are on the lookout for a senior narrative designer who could help us create a new criminal world for our AAA game project in the LA studio. You will be responsible for everything that relates to the story of the game, as well as working and assisting other departments and working together to make the creative ideas a reality. We invite you to apply for this role if you are looking to start an amazing journey with a group of game enthusiasts.

What You'll Be Doing:

• Build the overall worldview of the game according to the project requirements;
• Integrate the scripts into the existing world view, including but not limited to partially modifying the scripts, making fine adjustments of the world view, etc;
• Responsible for the adaptation of the scripts, including but not limited to adding fictional plots to the original scripts, adapting the original scripts to a certain degree of gamification, adding or reducing dialogues to suit the pace of the game;
• Responsible for the writing of in-game text content, such as dialogues, mission descriptions and other parts of copywriting;
• Design the story to fit better with the level gameplay, and improve the expressiveness of the level content.

Qualifications

We Expect You To Have:

• Bachelor degree or above, preferably in literature, screenwriting, film, game design or a related field;
• Excellent literature and storytelling skills;
• At least 5 years working experience as a narrative designer in the video game industry;
• Participate in at least one AAA project, from start to finish, in a narrative designer role;
• Passion for stories and games, especially story-driven AAA games and action games;
• Familiarity with dialogue system;
• Excellent communication skills and logical thinking.

Even Better If You Have:

• Open world game experience
• TV/Film writing experience
• Working experience with technical artists on dialogue system;
• Familiarity with crime themes.

Additional Information

• This is a hybrid role based in Los Angeles (currently hybrid because of pandemic);
• Current working hours: Monday – Friday, 11am – 8pm Pacific Time (including one-hour break);
• Salary depending on experience.

Yotta is committed to building an inclusive environment where creative professionals from a multitude of diverse cultural backgrounds collaborate to inspire audiences and each other. We are passionately supportive of equality in all its forms and never discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, orientation, identity, national origin, handicap, or any other category protected by applicable federal and state law.