Narrative Designer / 文案策划

About Glass Bead Games

Glass Bead Games is an AI-native game studio co-founded by Kuangye Guo and Haochen Liu, whose previous experience includes Google Stadia and Alibaba YuanJing. Our first project is a sandbox game inspired by Chinese mythology and cultivation culture. We use generative AI to create richer experiences of exploration, progression, and interaction, and integrate AI into our design, development, and content workflows. We value strong craft, independent judgment, and close collaboration.

Location and compensation

Compensation: negotiable. Candidates in China may work onsite in Shanghai or remotely. Candidates outside China work remotely.

Narrative Designer

Worldbuilding & Narrative

Draw on the Classic of Mountains and Seas (Shan Hai Jing), Spring and Autumn period history, and cultivation culture to weave a distinctive world into player exploration, growth, and choice.

What you’ll do

• Build and maintain world lore: cosmology, geography, history, cultivation systems, and faction relationships, giving gameplay and art a coherent foundation.
• Design characters, sects, and mythical creatures with internal logic, emotional motivations, and room for interaction.
• Create main and side narratives, chance encounters, and world events; write quests, dialogue, and branches with tangible consequences for player choices.
• Use environments, item descriptions, rumors, and relationships to reveal the world through free exploration.
• Collaborate with systems designers, artists, and programmers on implementable quest conditions, event flows, and content configurations; review results in-game.
• Establish writing and lore guidelines; help define, edit, and review AI-generated content for consistency and quality.
• Use AI for ideation, narrative alternatives, text variants, and consistency checks. Validate with reliable sources and human editing so outputs fit the world, characters, and voice.

What you’ll bring

• Game writing, worldbuilding, or narrative design experience, with a portfolio explaining your thinking and contribution.
• Familiarity with Shan Hai Jing, Chinese mythology, and cultivation fiction; strong research and source-checking skills for coherent adaptation.
• Strong Chinese writing: balance cultural flavor with readability, distinctive dialogue, and concise game text.
• Understand interactive versus linear storytelling; design around player goals, choices, and feedback rather than dialogue alone.
• Deep experience with sandbox or survival-crafting games; consider nonlinear exploration, repeatable events, and narrative continuity.
• Practical AI-assisted writing or narrative design experience; guide tools with lore, character briefs, and style examples, then edit outputs for in-game use.
• Understand AI's limits in historical accuracy, cultural context, long-form consistency, and originality. Research, build worlds, and write independently; correct fabricated facts, lore conflicts, and generic prose, taking responsibility for final content.
• Communicate and collaborate well in a fast-paced remote team. Narrative tools, event configuration, or game localization experience is a plus.

What we offer

Competitive compensation and equity: Pay matched to your skills and contribution, with the opportunity to share in the company’s growth.

Benefits that support you: Five social insurances, housing-fund contributions, and paid annual leave.

Shape the world from its origins: Help establish core lore and narrative systems that players will explore, interact with, and remember.

An AI-native environment: Practice AI across product development and daily work. Learn with teammates to break down tasks, organize context, validate results, and develop professional judgment.

A close-knit team: Work directly with the founders, designers, and artists to bring writing, gameplay, and visuals into one coherent world.

How to apply

Send your résumé and portfolio link or files: lore, character profiles, quests or encounters, branching dialogue, or shipped-game narratives. Prioritize Chinese mythology or cultivation work.

For each piece, state its context, creative goals, and your contribution; credit collaborators. For AI-assisted work, explain the AI's role and your independent conception, research, rewriting, and quality decisions.

End-to-end in-game examples or draft-to-final comparisons are welcome. Show narrative logic, player choice, and expression, including how you proceed when AI is unreliable or unsuitable.

Contact / Apply: hiring@glassbeadgames.co

Create a world of unexpected encounters, vivid lives, and stories players make their own.

International students are welcome to apply, subject to applicable work authorization requirements.

中文职位信息

关于我们

玻璃球游戏是一家 AI Native 游戏工作室，由曾任职于 Google Stadia、阿里元境的旷野和昊辰联合创办。我们的首款项目是一款以中国神话与修仙文化为背景的沙盒游戏，希望借助生成式 AI，为玩家创造更丰富的探索、成长与互动体验。我们也将 AI 融入设计、开发和内容创作流程，同时重视扎实的专业能力、独立判断与紧密协作。

工作地点与薪资

薪资：面议。中国境内可选择上海现场办公或远程办公；中国境外为远程办公。

文案策划

世界观与叙事方向   /   国风沙盒修仙项目

作为文案策划，你将以《山海经》、春秋历史和修仙文化为灵感，构建具有辨识度的世界观，并让故事自然融入玩家的探索、成长与选择。具体包括：

岗位职责

• 搭建并维护世界观体系，明确天地规则、地理风貌、历史脉络、修炼体系及势力关系，为玩法与美术提供一致的创作基础。
• 设计角色、宗门与异兽设定，将神话素材转化为具有自身逻辑、情感动机和互动空间的游戏内容。
• 设计主支线叙事、奇遇和世界事件，编写任务文本、角色对白及分支内容，让玩家的行动与选择产生可感知的后果。
• 通过场景细节、物品描述、传闻和角色关系组织环境叙事，让玩家在自由探索中逐步理解世界。
• 与系统策划、美术和程序协作，将叙事设计转化为可实现的任务条件、事件流程和内容配置，并参与游戏内验收。
• 建立文案风格与设定规范，参与 AI 生成内容的规则设计、编辑和质量审核，保持世界观一致性与文本质量。
• 将 AI 用于灵感探索、叙事方案发散、文本变体和设定一致性检查，结合可靠资料与人工编辑完成内容验证，确保作品符合世界观、角色逻辑和文案风格。

我们希望你

• 具备游戏文案、世界观或叙事设计经验，能够提供过往作品集，并清楚说明自己的创作思路与实际贡献。
• 熟悉《山海经》、中国神话及修仙题材，具备资料检索与考据能力，能够在理解原始素材的基础上进行有逻辑的再创作。
• 具备扎实的中文写作能力，能兼顾国风韵味与阅读效率，写出有辨识度的角色对白和简洁有效的游戏文本。
• 理解互动叙事与线性故事的区别，能够围绕玩家目标、选择和反馈设计内容，而非仅以对白推进剧情。
• 对沙盒或生存建造游戏有深入体验，能够思考非线性探索、可重复事件与叙事连续性之间的关系。
• 具备 AI 辅助写作或叙事设计的实践经验，能够通过世界观资料、角色设定和风格样例有效引导 AI，并将生成内容编辑为可用于游戏的文本。
• 理解 AI 在史料准确性、文化语境、长篇一致性和原创表达上的局限，能够独立完成考据、世界观构建与叙事写作，识别并修正事实编造、设定冲突和表达同质化问题，不完全依赖 AI，对最终内容负责。
• 拥有良好的协作和沟通能力，能适应远程、快节奏的工作模式；有叙事工具、事件配置或游戏本地化经验者优先。

我们能提供

有竞争力的薪资与股权激励：提供与能力和贡献相匹配的薪资，以及共享公司成长成果的机会。

完善的福利保障：五险一金、带薪年假等福利，支持你安心专注工作。

从源头塑造世界的机会：参与项目核心世界观与叙事体系的建立，让你的创作成为玩家探索、互动和记忆的一部分。

AI Native 的工作与成长环境：在产品研发和日常工作中深入实践 AI，与不同岗位的伙伴共同探索有效的辅助工作方式，积累任务拆解、上下文组织、结果验证与专业判断能力。

紧密协作的团队：与联合创始人、策划及美术直接合作，让文字、玩法和视觉共同构成完整的世界体验。

申请材料

请随简历附上过往作品集（Portfolio）链接或文件，可包含世界观设定、角色小传、任务或奇遇设计、分支对白及已上线游戏的叙事案例，优先展示中国神话或修仙题材作品。

请注明每件代表作品的项目背景、创作目标和个人负责部分；合作作品请说明分工。涉及 AI 辅助的作品，请说明 AI 参与的环节，以及你独立完成的构思、考据、改写和质量判断。

欢迎补充从设定到游戏内呈现的完整案例，或初稿与定稿的对比，展示你如何处理叙事逻辑、玩家选择和文本表达。我们也关注你在 AI 输出不可靠或不适用时，如何独立推进工作。

联系 / 投递简历：hiring@glassbeadgames.co

期待志同道合的你加入我们，一起创造一个有奇遇、有众生、也有玩家自己故事的修仙世界！

以上岗位向外籍国际生开放，具体录用须满足适用的工作许可要求。