Narrative Designer

Narrative Designer Department: Creative Employment Type: Contract Location: San Francisco, USA

Description Who are we?

Tripledot is one of the largest independent mobile games companies in the world.

We are a multi-award-winning organisation, with a global 2,500+ strong team across 12 studios.

Our expanded portfolio includes some of the biggest titles in mobile gaming, collectively reaching top chart positions around the world and engaging over 25 million daily active users.

Tripledot’s guiding principle is that when people love what they do, what they do will be loved by others.

We’re building a company we’re proud of. One filled with driven, incredibly smart and detail-orientated people, who LOVE making games.

Our ambition is to be the most successful games company in the world, and we’re just getting started.

The role is working within our studio: Peoplefun

PeopleFun is an award-winning Dallas-based game studio founded and led by game industry veterans, where game developers thrive on collaboration, creativity, teamwork, and fun.

We believe in bringing People together through Fun by creating the best in class social features and communities in our games that enables our players to engage deeply with other players. We build teams that foster healthy collaboration, incredible productivity, and life-long professional relationships.

Key Responsibilities PeopleFun is seeking a Narrative Designer to craft the world, characters, and story arcs for a new mobile word game. This role combines creative writing and game design — you’ll be responsible for shaping narrative tone, developing key characters, and ensuring the story supports both gameplay and player motivation.

You’ll collaborate closely with the Design and Art teams to ensure narrative cohesion, emotional resonance, and alignment with player experience goals.

Key Responsibilities:

• Worldbuilding: Define the unique setting for the game, including era, location, and cultural details that appeal broadly to the target audiences.
• Character Development: Expand the main guide character with a rich personality, backstory, motivations, and voice.
• Player Role: Clarify the player’s in-world identity, profession, and evolving relationship to the world and other characters.
• Story Design: Create an overarching narrative that introduces mysteries gradually, builds intrigue, and allows for ongoing expansion.
• Collaboration: Partner with design and art teams to ensure narrative content enhances the visual and gameplay experience.
• Iteration: Incorporate internal feedback through multiple revisions, from initial pitch through final delivery.
• Process Improvement: Help refine documentation, templates, and collaboration processes to streamline story implementation.
• Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
• Proven experience in narrative design or writing for mobile or casual games.
• Strong understanding of story structure, pacing, and dialogue in interactive formats.
• Ability to write compelling characters, mysteries, and emotional arcs within tight constraints.
• Comfort working with design documentation, templates, and iterative feedback loops.
• Experience collaborating across disciplines (Art, Design, UX).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Familiarity with female-dominant mobile game audiences is a plus.
• Bonus: Background in crime fiction, mystery, or procedural storytelling.