Drop Bear Bytes is hiring a Writer / Narrative Designer
We’re growing our writing team!
Drop Bear Bytes is looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer with 3-5 years experience, who has shipped 1 or more titles with a focus on branching dialogue, and who can demonstrate strong familiarity with the various stages of the game development lifecycle as well as role-playing games in general.
This person would contribute to the project by writing and pitching quest outlines, creating flow diagrams, writing branching dialogues, and creating realistic and memorable characters in line with the tone and content of our Australian-focused post-apocalyptic RPG, Broken Roads. Among other things, this requires an understanding of cosmetic and systemic reactivity, the use of conditionals and global variables, and the ability to write to a defined dialogue standard.
The ideal candidate will have familiarity with Unity and be willing and able to test their changes in-game, with an eye to a rewarding player experience and overall consistency of tone.
The candidate must have a proven ability to work with people across multiple departments, to translate the needs of Narrative into formats that respect the expertise and requirements of colleagues within the Art, Design, Programming, and Audio departments, among others. They must above all be an efficient communicator and enthusiastic collaborator.
The role will be for a minimum of four months, and there is flexibility around part time/specific working hours.
Responsibilities include:
Maintaining an “Australian” tone to help the game remain true to its setting
Ongoing testing of conversations and other in-game elements
Contributing to worldbuilding and core narrative (where applicable)
Pitching quests/conversations
Writing conversations and developing quests in conjunction with the designer(s)
Specific characters and related quests (exactly which TBD)
Combat/civilian barks
Overheard conversations
Experience in articy:draft is a major plus; experience with other interactive narrative editors (e.g. Twine, ChoiceScript, etc.) is also welcome
This is a fully remote position, working with an international, distributed team in multiple time zones (AEST, CEST, SAST, & EST, to name a few)
We're aiming to fill the role as soon as possible, ideally no later than the start of June, but do have some flexibility to wait for the right candidate.
If you feel you’d be a good fit for the role, please send a CV and cover letter to team@dropbearbytes.com, including salary expectations and availability.