Freelance Game Designer

Game Designer is needed in Salt Lake City, United States.

Client: Warner Bros. Discovery

Location: Salt Lake City, UT

Contract: Temporary

The Job

WB Games is looking for a Junior Designer, Narrative to join the team that created Hogwarts Legacy. We are looking for a visionary storyteller with a deep understanding of the Wizarding World. Applicants should be creative, self-motivated problem solvers who enjoy collaborating with other writers and designers to create immersive narrative experiences.

The Daily

• Design, maintain and implement VO lines related to player action, engagement and choice throughout the game.
• Craft compelling quests, satisfying dialogue, and rich stories that support the developer and project vision.
• Champion narrative, thematic, and mechanical coherence across story and gameplay.
• Ensure Wizarding World authenticity across the project.
• Collaborate with writers, designers and the game director to champion story in design and provide narrative support for design elements, such as: story beat creation, game mechanics delivery, character profiles, character motivations, narrative feature design, player choices and player emotional journey as delivered through narrative during game development.

The Essentials

• A degree in a related discipline, or adjacent field, is helpful.
• A strong record of quality in writing and game design.
• Previous experience in interactive storytelling, narrative design, and game writing.
• Proven ability to create within an established franchise, authoring exciting new experiences that still feel authentic and tonally consistent.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with standard game-development processes and workflows.
• Ability to work effectively and collaboratively in a cross-culture and multi-time-zone team.
• Possess a deep literacy in games, film, literature, and television, and a love of fantasy.
• Knowledge of the Wizarding World franchise is a definite plus.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience in visual scripting languages like Unreal 5, Blueprints.
• Experience with dialogue authoring systems like Articy.

How We Get Things Done

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences.

Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

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Posted 5 days ago