Story Game Designer (Studio X)

At Wizards of the Coast, we connect people around the world through play and imagination. From our genre-defining games like Magic: The Gathering® and Dungeons & Dragons® to our growing multiverse, we continue to innovate and build new ways to foster friendship and connection. That’s where you come in!

Are you a Storyteller and Game Designer who loves the intersection of mechanics, lore and flavor? Can you weave tales and build worlds, while keeping your head in both the Fun and the Future of gaming?

On any given day in the Magic TCG Studio, you could:

• Coordinate with game designers, narrative leads, and product architecture to ensure goals for card set are represented.
• Partner with Narrative Worldbuilding Set Leads to ensure set story is well integrated into the cardsets (especially through collaboration on the Story Spotlight Development process).
• Collaborate with Creative Text Lead on opportunities to bring elements of set fiction into the cardsets through creative text, while also supporting card, plane and character naming as needed.
• Provide appropriate feedback and support to internal and external collaborators to assure story continuity for character and lore. This may include providing reviews, feedback and guidance to internal Marketing & Packaging teams, as well as external Licensing and Publishing partners.
• Participate in public-facing interviews, panels, and appearances as needed.
• Support the development of story outline and character dossier materials as delegated by the Story Lead. Review fiction material, providing feedback as needed.
• Develop and coordinate high volume of story and process documentation.
• Support Story Lead in sourcing writers for contract work and expanding our writer pool with new and diverse voices.
• Participate in Story and Worldbuilding creative brainstorms.
• Participate in playtesting to foster collaborative communication between groups and make sure card set is aligned with each team’s needs.

We are looking a curious, adaptable, and creative new team member to bring their robust worldbuilding, collaborative communication, and game design skills to Magic!

Magic produces multiple worlds, hundreds of characters, and thousands of cards per year, and we are a high-talent, welcoming team seeking someone with:

• Skilled writer with [3+ years of] experience generating and editing long and short form fiction.
• A passion for generating unique and compelling narrative content.
• Excellent communication and organization skills.
• An orientation towards both ownership and flexibility in the game design process.
• A deep love for and understanding of the world design process within a game design environment.
• A bias toward action and eagerness to iterate on ideas.
• A passion for feedback and data to better inform their work.
• Strong valuation of inclusive storytelling.
• Some knowledge of the TCG/CCG design space.

• Narrative background with an existing entertainment intellectual property.

The above is intended to describe the general content of and the requirements for satisfactory performance in this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of the duties, responsibilities, or requirements of the position.

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