Narrative Game Designer (Affirmative for Women)

Location

Recife, PE | Brazil

Job description

Are you a storyteller at heart with a passion for creating immersive narratives in video games? As a Narrative Game Designer at Kokku Games, you will work on a combination of our pitches and presentations, showing to our clients our strengths and our game design ideas.

This is an affirmative position, open exclusively to women who are passionate about gaming and game development. At Kokku, we are committed to fostering diversity and creating an inclusive work environment where every voice is heard and valued. Be part of the change.

Being a part of Kokku means being able to work with a commitment to excellence. As a result, we put our talents and efforts into making games better. In addition, only at Kokku you will have the opportunity to work with great IPs and major studios like Activision, Guerrilla Games, Netflix, Warner Brothers and Treyarch, to name a few.

At Kokku, we believe in pushing the boundaries of storytelling in games and creating immersive experiences that resonate with players.

As a Narrative Game Designer, you will:

• Create and improve standard documentation within the design team;
• Oversee, critique, and support documentation within the design team;
• Create one-pagers, full GDDs, and presentations to share design vision with the rest of the project team;
• Able to work in all areas of Game Design - Narrative, Level Design, Mechanics, Economy or Prototyping/Scripting;
• Create and maintain design documentation for any assigned projects using company tools;
• Oversee, critique, and support design documentation for any project;
• Act as point of contact for all issues and decisions of design within the assigned project;
• Provide feedback for Associate Level Game Designers;
• Create and own pitch and proposal decks and communicate with the client as needed;
• Create native-passing dialog in both English and Portuguese
• Use game engines at a basic level to prototype ideas;
• Use spreadsheets to keep track of the game's economy, progression and balance;
• Work with game designers from other studios;
• Provide consistent, quality output.

Requirements

• More than 2 years of experience as a writer of narrative experiences;
• Advanced in English;
• Preferred mobile, PC and console gaming experience;
• Familiarity with MIRO or other whiteboard solution;
• Experience (Indie or Pro) experimenting with various Game Systems (Mods, self-creation tools, narrative/visual adventures, etc)
• Excellent communication skills;
• Understanding of the fundamentals of Game Design;
• Ability to work independently and in a team;
• Passionate about game mechanics, game economy, documentation and game testing;
• Experience with level design for various genres;
• Problem solving and open mind;
• Flexibility and ability to adapt to changes;
• Autonomous and proactive attitude, oriented towards results;
• Sense of initiative, attention to detail;
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, both written and spoken;
• Update job knowledge proactively;
• Advanced working experience with G-Suite (Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, etc) or Microsoft 365 (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, etc)

Benefits

• Competitive financial reward;
• Health Insurance;
• A transparent and inclusion-oriented culture;
• Relocation bonus,
• Meal ticket;
• Transport benefits and more ;
• A full-time job in a modern and relaxed studio atmosphere;
• A chance to work in a booming industry, within an international team;
• A lot of challenges and ambitious tasks;
• An opportunity to grow in a stimulating industry.

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