Important Details:

• Title: Game/Narrative Designer (Part-Time, Remote in Manitoba)
• Studio: Mythic Mosaic Entertainment (A World Unwritten, http://www.mythicmosaic.com)
• Start: January 1st, 2026 (contingent on funding)
• Location: Remote in Manitoba (Manitoba residency required)

About A World Unwritten

“Your story. Your world. Your choice.”

A World Unwritten (AWU) is an interactive visual novel that turns players into co-authors inside a living story. Start in a pre-crafted world or build your own using a unique deck-driven creation system, customize your character, and step into the world through their eyes, making any choice your heart desires and living with the consequences.

Language AI crafts scenes on the fly from your decisions, while Image and Voice AI paint every moment and give each character a distinct presence. Choices have lasting consequences - nations realign, friendships deepen or fracture, and even the soundtrack itself evolves as you traverse the world - so the story you experience genuinely feels like yours.

The role

We’re looking for a Game Designer who loves systems and is comfortable with narrative-adjacent work. You’ll design player-facing mechanics (progression, encounters, choice structures) that play nicely with an AI-assisted pipeline - clear rules and data that our systems can reliably execute.

What you’ll do

• Design systems for moment-to-moment play: agency loops, pacing, progression, fail/soft-fail states, rewards.
• Shape the world-building kit: evolve our card/deck event system, core data (species, character traits, creation options, etc.), and Entity schema (Regions, POIs, Characters, etc.).
• Author clean specs and lightweight docs the team (and AI) can execute against: flows, states, tags, constraints.
• Collaborate in Unity with designers/engineers to prototype, tune, and validate (no coding required).
• Iterate with data: use playtest notes/analytics to tighten friction, clarity, and choice payoff.

Must-haves

• 2+ years in game design (shipped project or strong prototypes/portfolio).
• Portfolio showing systems thinking (loops, balancing, flows) and player clarity.
• Experience collaborating in an engine (Unity, Unreal, Godot, other).
• Love of narrative, choice-driven games.
• Excellent communication; remote discipline; Manitoba residency.

Nice-to-haves

• Narrative design/writing samples (dialogue, quest flows).
• Unity familiarity (C#, ScriptableObjects, node graphs).
• Experience with AI-adjacent workflows (prompting, constraints).
• D&D/TTRPG/DM background or visual-novel/choice game design experience.

What success looks like (90 days)

• A vertical slice of 2-3 encounter templates with branching and outcomes, formatted to be used by our systems.
• A tightened card/deck spec for world events and a simplified Entity doc the team uses daily.
• Work on species and archetype definitions to broaden character and world creation.

Compensation:

Part-time, 16-24 hours per week, $24 - $32/hr; commensurate with experience (equivalent of $49,920 - $66,560 full time).

Employment type:

Part-time employee; contingent on funding, beginning on January 1st, 2026. Manitoba residency required.

To apply:

Send an email with your resume and portfolio (links okay) and a short note on a system you designed that improved player agency.

Deadline: September 6th, 2025. We review on a rolling basis.