Senior Narrative Engineer
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Senior Narrative Engineer building dialogue, quest, and branching narrative systems in Unreal Engine. Supporting co-op multiplayer storytelling, VO, subtitles, and localisation pipelines.
Responsibilities:
- Build and maintain dialogue, quest, conversation and branching narrative systems in Unreal Engine
- Integrate narrative middleware and tools so writers and designers can author and iterate independently
- Solve narrative challenges specific to co-op and multiplayer, such as shared choices, quest state replication and drop-in/drop-out play
- Support VO, subtitle and localisation pipelines alongside audio and localisation teams
- Work closely with narrative design, writing, cinematics and gameplay teams
- Embed in the client's engineering team building systems that bring story, dialogue and quests to life in a co-op Action Adventure RPG
Requirements:
- Shipped credits on at least one successful Action, Adventure or RPG title on console
- Experience on co-op or multiplayer projects, including networked or replicated systems
- 5+ years in a gameplay or narrative engineering role
- Strong C++ and Blueprint experience in Unreal Engine 4 or 5
- Experience building or integrating dialogue and quest systems
- Comfortable working remotely and independently inside a larger studio team
- Experience with narrative middleware such as articy:draft, Ink or Yarn Spinner
- Familiarity with VO pipelines and localisation workflows
- Python scripting for tools and data import
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