Narrative Designer

Who are Narrative Designers at Liquid Swords
As Narrative Designer, you are the guardian of the story and nemesis of dissonance.

Your job is singular - reveal the story. Your means to deliver - multi-faceted, collaborative, and honed.

Your role in the bigger picture
As Narrative Designer, you ensure that all development pulls in the same direction, guaranteeing the game's story and the player's experience converge.

You are at the helm of world-building and the emergent narratives that conceive our living, reactive world. Adept in harnessing game mechanics, capable of wrangling dialogue systems, and skilled in coordination, you constantly strive to find the fun and reveal the story in a collaborative, iterative fashion.

Is this You?
- Your decision-making respects the inherent link between story-telling and gameplay and you’re a champion of the player experience, above all else.

- You respect every discipline and are here to help the other along. You level up all teams with your ideas and feedback.

- As a hardened professional you have learned to express and champion the world narrative. You openly share your knowledge of narrative design to evolve the character, world-building, tone, dialog, and other storytelling tools.

- The breadth of your submitted work includes feature or quest designs, pen-and-paper table-top/RPG-style prototypes, and links or highlights of shipped mods or game samples.

- Your work is concise and your proficiency as a narrative designer is unequivocal. The samples you provide are as distinct as they are creative. From world-building and lore to character dialogue and combat barks, your portfolio is unambiguous.

- Your experience and success as a Narrative Designer are undeniable. You are proven in the process of delivering rich worlds and AAA-scale player experiences, with practical experience and a comprehensive understanding of story-telling in every facet of the development life-cycle.

- You are proven with branching dialogue quest systems but never rest on your laurels. You understand the organizational challenges of bringing bold, branching, open-world stories to life. And you are convinced games can do it better.



Portfolio
The request for samples or a portfolio is meant to help us understand your ability to interpret high-level themes and manifest them through rules or writing. To facilitate, links to game samples and collaborative works should indicate your contributions.

Founded in 2020, Liquid Swords was established to be purposefully raw and dismantle the silos of game development so that we empower our people to achieve amazing results.

We are cultivating a culture and offering an environment that truly nurtures creativity. Liquid Swords share a common understanding - original ideas inspire great games, and great games are built by remarkable teams.