Junior Narrative Designer - Dune Awakening

We like to think of ourselves as more than just developers. Were a friendly group of around 500 people with plenty of casual and hardcore gamers tech heads and creative masterminds organized planners and nerdy game fans who make this industry so fun. And were all together on a mission to open windows to amazing worlds. Weve been making games for over 30 years crafting and publishing unique experiences that have put us on the path to becoming a leader in Online Worlds.

Weve got five studios spread across Norway the USA Portugal Sweden and Romania and were always on the lookout for more dedicated people to join our ranks.

Were all about creating a relaxed and equal workspace where flat communication and our agile structure are key to delivering worldclass games.

So if youre ready to make your mark were ready to welcome you!

Your Mission in Funcom

As a Junior Narrative Designer at Funcom you will join the narrative team on Dune Awakening. We are looking for someone who can adapt quickly to our tools and processes and can bring energy and enthusiasm to the process of setting up the structure and flow of dialogues in the game. Junior Narrative Designers need to be proactive analytical and creative with excellent communication skills. You will be onboarded and mentored by the Senior Narrative Designer of the team and will be given the opportunity to leave your mark on the project. This is a fastpaced environment but we prioritize a healthy worklife balance above all else.

How you can have an impact in your position:

Contribute to shape design and implement storylines and narrative content iterating with writers narrative and content designers
Work in a crossdisciplinary team to pitch design and implement narrative features
Develop an expertise in open world storytelling and providing scaleproof solution to creative problems

Preferred Skills:

Comfort with branching dialogue and nodebased software
A positive attitude towards taking direction and constructive criticism
Selfmotivation to collaborate and drive change in a studio environment
Can keep up with multiple topics in a fastpaced environment
Ability to think critically while resolving complex issues
An eye for cinematic framing and animation
Familiarity with localization pipelines
Basic knowledge of version control

Education and Requirments:

OPTIONAL: One year of experience in the game industry working in a design capacity
OPTIONAL: A game design degree
Experience with at least one game engine (with a preference for the Unreal Engine)
A crossdisciplinary understanding of design processes including game design level design and content design
Good communicator
Knows how to maintain clean and organized documentation

Project Responsibilities:
You will support the development and polish of several narrative features
You will contribute to design and implement new content and features for future updates
You will collaborate with many specialists across several teams to bring content and features to the best quality possible taking their and your own constraints into consideration
You will write and maintain documentation for our content and features checking regularly to ensure that everything remains up to date

We evaluate candidates on an ongoing basis and recommend candidates to apply as soon as possible!

Please apply in English.

Why Funcom

Were a Scandinavian company and follow Scandinavian work values. That means were all about creating a relaxed equal workspace where you can be yourself and really make a difference in what we do. More so were big believers in worklife balance.

Our Studio is home to around 140 people from 29 different parts of the world. We work together to create awesome games and we do it according to the Kaizen approach: making small adjustments that lead to big outcomes over time.

We do it all from the heart of Norway a country thats topping the charts as one of the happiest places on Earth.

Nestled downtown our office is just a stones throw away from some of Oslos most iconic sights such as the Opera the Munch Museum or the stunning Deichman Public Library.

Our 37.5hour work week is flexible giving you plenty of time to juggle lifes many hats. We offer a helping hand with relocation a pension plan private healthcare a variety of social and wellbeing events free access to our gym plus a long list of other benefits.