Senior Narrative Writer

Overview

Remote
On Site
Hybrid
BASED ON EXPERIENCE
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - 12+ mo(s)

Skills

Mentorship
Reporting
Documentation
Game Design
Collaboration
Peer Feedback
Leadership
Game Development
IP
Intellectual Property
Media
Shipping
Scripting
Writing
FOCUS
Professional Services
Genetics
Law

Job Details

Title: Senior Narrative Writer
Location: Remote
Terms: 12-month Contract
Compensation: $69.00-$85.00/hour
Work Requirements: , Holders or Authorized to Work in the US
Senior Narrative Writer
As a Narrative Writer, your experience and craft as a published and professional storyteller will help you drive creative initiatives that include dreaming up new champions, fleshing out their stories, and imagining their worlds, ultimately inspiring the artists and designers who will help produce them and the passionate players who will bring them to life.
Ultimately, it's your love of gaming, passion for writing, and highly-polished portfolio of work that'll position you to help players create their own unique narratives through play.
As a Senior Narrative Writer on, you will primarily support narrative needs within Core Gameplay, Voice Over Team, and Champion Development. You will come up with innovative, and thematically cohesive solutions for product narrative needs. You will help mentor your fellow team members to continue to raise the narrative quality bar at the studio. You will report directly to the Narrative Director.
Responsibilities:
  • Drive on character development through your craft and game development experience on a cross-disciplinary team
  • Create and communicate characters' personalities through narrative character design
  • Deftly negotiate the creative space between cherished characters and the IP for the product, your team, and the players
  • Create VO to communicate gameplay intent and character personality through VO lines in collaboration with the development team, VO directors and producers to bring our characters to life for players
  • Ideate and create enthralling characters, environments and worlds through your writing
  • Craft detailed documentation to support alignment on the core truths and personality of the characters and the world
  • Continuously deliver concept assets that fulfill the requirements of the project's game design and creative direction
  • Collaborate with with artists, designers and other team members by providing and receiving creative/team feedback and providing clear creative goals and outcomes to your team
  • Innovate and expand upon a globally recognized IP while defending its identity and core truths

Required Qualifications:
  • 5+ years of narrative writing in gaming industry
  • Established excellence in leadership of creative products on cross-disciplinary game development teams
  • Professional experience crafting succinct, effective, and memorable VO lines for characters within a specific game context
  • Professional experience developing new IP and working within existing IP
  • Demonstrable ability to create the highest quality stories through themes, characters and worlds as shown in past professional or personal work samples from relevant media
  • Extensive experience with technical game implementation through a variety of software tools for narrative deliverables and VO
Desired Qualifications:
  • Experience shipping at least one AAA game title
  • Fighting game genre experience
When submitting your application, please provide samples of your storytelling - including the written scripts or prose (solely written by you) that best demonstrate your craft and understanding of genre fiction and game writing.
Our benefits package includes:
  • Comprehensive medical benefits
  • Competitive pay
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • and much more!

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities

Our benefits package includes:

  • Comprehensive medical benefits
  • Competitive pay
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • and much more!

About INSPYR Solutions
Technology is our focus and quality is our commitment. As a national expert in delivering flexible technology and talent solutions, we strategically align industry and technical expertise with our clients' business objectives and cultural needs. Our solutions are tailored to each client and include a wide variety of professional services, project, and talent solutions. By always striving for excellence and focusing on the human aspect of our business, we work seamlessly with our talent and clients to match the right solutions to the right opportunities. Learn more about us at inspyrsolutions.com.

INSPYR Solutions provides Equal Employment Opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, INSPYR Solutions complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities

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About INSPYR Solutions