Technical Narrative Designer

Cold Symmetry
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December 17, 2024
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Cold Symmetry, creators of the acclaimed indie title Mortal Shell, is expanding.

 

Description

As we grow and strive to produce even better games, we remain committed to a culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We’re looking for like-minded individuals—ambitious, creative risk-takers who pour their heart and soul into crafting games they love and want to play. 

As a fully remote studio, we welcome candidates from around the globe who are exceptional at what they do. Competence, resourcefulness, extreme ownership in your area of expertise, and a relentless drive to achieve are what we value. 

Join us as we embark on an ambitious new project with a team of industry veterans aiming to create something incredible. 

We're seeking a Junior to Mid-Level Narrative Designer to work closely with our Narrative Director, helping bring narrative events to life in Unreal Engine. This role requires someone with technical expertise in Unreal Blueprints and a passion for seamless narrative implementation. While this position focuses on the technical side of narrative design rather than story creation, you’ll play a critical role in ensuring that our narrative content is interactive, engaging, and highly polished.

 

You'll Own

  • Collaborate with the Narrative Director to implement narrative events in Unreal Engine.
  • Utilize Unreal Blueprint systems to integrate narrative into interactive gameplay experiences.
  • Prototype, troubleshoot, and refine narrative events to ensure smooth player experiences.
  • Debug technical issues related to the implementation of narrative systems and content.
  • Work in tandem with other team members to align narrative implementation with gameplay.
  • Give and solicit feedback throughout the process to ensure a high quality and player-centric design principles are upheld.
  • The ideal candidate will be expected to leverage cross-discipline systems and features, including, but not limited to adapting and creating gameplay mechanics, cinematics, animations, and SFX to support a fully immersive and interactive narrative experience.

 

Your Skills & XP

  • Proven experience with Unreal Engine and a strong understanding of Blueprint scripting.
  • Previous experience implementing narrative events in games or similar technical work.
  • Familiarity with narrative design principles and their application in games.
  • Self motivated and able work independently as part of a fully distributed and, at times, a-sync team to meet deadlines and milestone requirements
  • Mid-level expertise preferred—this role is not suited for interns or entry-level applicants.
About 
Cold Symmetry

Cold Symmetry is the studio that created Mortal Shell - a successful indie title crafted by a small passionate team. As we grow bigger and aim to produce better games, we want to preserve our culture of autonomy, quality, creativity, and focus. We want to fill our team with people like us who set ambitious goals, are not afraid to take creative risks, and pour their heart and soul into making a game they love, and ultimately, would love to play.

We're looking to expand both our core team and our network of contractors. We are a distributed studio and all of our positions are fully remote. We are considering candidates from anywhere in the world as long as you're really good at what you do. What matters to us is that you're competent, talented, resourceful, take extreme ownership in your specialized area, and have a burning desire to get things done.

If this describes you we'd like to talk.

Featured Game
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Mortal Shell 2 is a standalone sequel to Mortal Shell that significantly expands on the original. Explore a dense, open world filled with dark secrets, strange companions, and loathsome foes. Combat is fast-paced and fluid with more weapons, shells, and abilities to match any playstyle. The shells themselves contain new secrets with extensive stories and unique powers to uncover.

Mortal Shell is a deep action-RPG that tests your sanity and resilience in a shattered world. As the remains of humanity wither and rot, zealous foes fester in the ruins. They spare no mercy, with survival demanding superior awareness, precision and instincts. Track down hidden sanctums of devout followers and discover your true purpose.

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