Narrative and World Lead

Eleventh Hour Games is a fast growing studio, focused on a passion for top-down action RPGs. We value open communication, close-knit teamwork, and opportunity for ownership and growth! Our mission is to gather and empower the next generation of creators to forge extraordinary games. Extraordinary games build passionate communities, which create passionate people. Passionate people turn into next year's creators. With our breakout title Last Epoch, we are moving fast into the next round of adventure!

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THE OPPORTUNITY

• Build and maintain the narrative of the world, including core lore covering eras, cultures, factions, geographies, and key world events.
• Design campaign-level world maps structuring zones, quest hubs, travel routes, pacing, and progression logic across the narrative campaign.
• Develop main arc and side quest flows with emotional pacing, player motivation, and world-context integration.
• Write comprehensive character profiles—arcs, relationship webbing, dialogue, quest hooks, and interactions.
• Collaborate closely with key stakeholders, including combat, level, and environment designers to align map structure with narrative beats and gameplay flow.
• Oversee narrative documentation, dialogue QC, style guidelines, and help shape branching/story systems.
• "Be the voice" for the player experience by ensuring the narrative aligns with the player dynamics and enhances player immersion.
• "Be receptive and progressive" with narrative elements based on player feedback, game testing, and live-service data to maintain and improve the world and journey.

QUALIFICATIONS:

• 5+ years in narrative design or quest design roles, saidatadesign