Narrative Game Designer

flavour Utrecht, Netherlands;
Haarlem, Netherlands

Dutch

Posted 1 month ago

32 hrs / week

Hero Center is active in developing innovative educational platforms and games aimed at enhancing digital safety awareness among users. With a mission to activate over 10 million individuals as heroes contributing to a better future by 2030, the company focuses on creating impactful products like Hack Shield, which teaches cybersecurity to primary school students.

As a narrative game designer, you will merge storytelling and gameplay to create meaningful interactive experiences. You will build upon existing projects and story worlds by deepening characters and storylines while adding new interactive layers. Your role involves ensuring a balance between experience, project goals, and technical feasibility, contributing to the development of engaging narratives that activate and educate users about cybersecurity.

• Further develop story worlds, characters, and narrative structures, and monitor the tone, logic, and continuity
• Design scenarios, scripts, missions, choices, and interactive moments
• Translate educational and activating goals into appealing gameplay and immersive stories
• Write and build narrative content within our platform
• Collaborate with artists, developers, project managers, and knowledge partners
• Test experiences and improve based on feedback
• Minimum 2 years of experience in a similar role
• Experience with narrative design, game design, interactive storytelling and/or serious games
• 25 vacation days for a 40-hour workweek
• Company laptop
• Room for own ideas, growth, and professional development

Narrative Design Game Design Interactive Storytelling Serious Games Storytelling Player Agency Collaboration Analytical skills Creativity Feedback Incorporation Cybersecurity Knowledge Project management