Far Cry 6

ABOUT THE GAME

• Action-adventure shooter, released October 7th 2021

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PREMISE

As dictator of Yara, Anton Castillo is intent on restoring his nation back to its former glory by any means, with his son, Diego, following in his bloody footsteps.

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MY ROLE

Narrative Designer (2018 - 2021)

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• Designed new narrative mechanics for the Far Cry brand and collaborated closely with writers, voice designers, game designers & programmers to prototype and integrate them.

• Design owner for new dialogue systems, open world narrative content & systemic VO (barks, NPC interacts, systemic convos, etc).

• Set up and prepared scripts for writers with direction and placeholder lines (cinematics, mission dialogue, menu/HUD etc).

• Owner of the dialog database, which requires integrating dialogue and setting up conditional logic, preconditions, priority tags and weights for systemic dialogue to trigger.

• Designed missions alongside writers and level designers using our narrative and worldbuilding tools.

• Evaluated and reviewed narrative content, sequences and dialogue, ensuring proper player training and comprehension, as well as nailing down narrative continuity, tone, themes, character & emotional story arcs.

• Participated in blueprint meetings, writers’ rooms, mission reviews, VO records & mo-cap sessions.

• Represented and championed the narrative in director and leadership meetings, syncs and reviews.

• Trained new narrative designers, writers, voice designers and interns on how our narrative tools and mechanics work, and how to use our in-house writing/recording/localization software tool.

• Created and managed narrative confluence documentation for all teams to reference the game’s narrative.

• Organized regular syncs with co-dev teams to provide updates to the narrative & answer their questions.

• Helped deliver the game’s first playable and continued until ship.

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