Writer/Narrative Designer

Luau Games is a new independent studio backed by Supercell and led by industry veterans with backgrounds from King, EA, and Zynga. We are based in Malmö and have so far assembled a team of more than 15 extremely talented individuals, who are currently working on a casual mobile game in the soft launch - Rose’s Adventure!


We are looking for an experienced Writer/Narrative Designer to help us create world class stories and dialogs for an exciting Mobile game currently in soft launch. You will be able to play God as you will own the whole Universe (at least in our game)


Responsibilities:
The narrative designer is responsible to drive and communicate the narrative vision, develop games stories & characters in collaboration with the game lead. This includes:
• Create and own an immersive, consistent, and believable universe/characters
• Pace properly and make the important story sections effective
• Combine different kinds of story conflicts within a single narrative. Deepen the plot with subplots (for special events for example)
• Deliver knockout cliffhangers (our stories are likely to never end)
• Evaluate narrative content across a feature or game
• Initiate the development of new narrative concepts to support both creative and monetization objectives.
• Keep what’s interesting for our audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer
• Create dialogue and support narrative content
• Assist the game team iterate on narrative and its delivery
• Reinforce narrative and creative goals in relation to overall gameplay
• Be aware of technical limitations and constraints of mobile games
• Partner with the game lead to plan zone/patch storylines
• Write, review, and edit dialogue and other supporting text
• Work with sound producers regarding direction and ambiances
• Provide narrative context for music
• Review designers requests, assign and write scripts, offer feedback
• Review advertising story content and provide writing support


Location:
We are based in Malmo and strongly believe in collaborative culture fostered through human interactions. Luau is operating a hybrid workforce model and combines office presence in Malmo with work from home.


Benefits:
-Incentive program
-Competitive pension plan
-Health and group life insurance
-30 days of paid vacations + Luau days
-Wellness & Fitness subsidy
-Paid leave for new parents
-Free drinks and snacks in the office
-Company events