Narrative Designer

Extropia Labs

The job involves writing the arcs, outlines, dialogue, and actions of the main storyline for an untitled 2D RPG, including drafting quests, staging character movements, and prompting an AI dungeon master into alignment with the story arc. Extropia Labs is an indie and experimental game studio founded in 2026 whose current game is an untitled 2D RPG with dark and high fantasy elements.

Location: Remote, anywhere
Arrangement: Remote
Employment: Part time
Salary: $300/week
Date added: 2026-10-16
Last checked: 2026-10-17

Overview

Extropia Labs is hiring a Narrative Designer Browse Jobs Art & Animation Audio Business & Operations Design Marketing & Community Production Programming QA & CS Writing Post a Job Back to all jobs See allWritingjobs Narrative Designer Extropia Labs Apply for this Job Apply for this Job URL copied! This position has been closed. No items found. Posted October 16, 2026 Part Time Anywhere Remote $300 USD / week Help us build worlds where digital beings live, remember, and react. You'll write the arcs, outlines, and dialogue and actions of the main storyline for our fantasy game. Important details

PAY: $300 USD / week
HOURS: ~8 / week, capped
PAID TRIAL: $100
START: ASAP
LOCATION: Remote, anywhere
COMMUNICATION: Async, Discord text
AGREEMENT: Work-for-hire + NDA
EQUIPMENT: Desktop Chrome
CREDIT: After probation

The studio and the game Extropia Labs is an indie and experimental game studio founded in 2026. Our current game is an untitled 2D RPG with both dark and high fantasy elements. You work directly with our lead developer. You can invent cinematics and new areas for the story, and our artist will build them. You will work with tools that control character movements, interactivity, and dialogue. The loop You draft a quest, play it in the game, and revise: staging character movements beat by beat, holding voices and continuity steady across an arc, and tuning dialogue until each scene plays the way you intended. Most scenes take several passes, and the craft is in what you change on each one. The on-path quest dialogue is handcrafted, and you are the one writing it, along with the character movements. The player helps write the story, assisted by an AI dungeon master, so you also prompt it into alignment with your arc, using an agent API and Claude Opus. The tools keep time logs of your testing sessions as a normal part of the loop. Your writing is never used to train or fine-tune models. Your first assignment Shortlisted applicants complete a $100 paid trial task. Once you're hired, probation is your first assignment: a short, light-hearted side-quest series for Ryn, our first playable heroine, where you learn the tools and we both see if it's a fit. From there, you take on the rest of the main storyline and side quests for each playable hero. Pass probation and stay on, and you're credited as Narrative Designer. Who we want

REQUIRED

Experience as a tabletop game master or writing tabletop adventures, or narrative design experience
A sample of structural writing, such as an adventure, a quest design doc or GM prep
Familiarity and comfort with AI tools

BONUS

A shipped game
Writing for interactive or AI story systems such as AI Dungeon, Ink or Twine

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