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Chadwick Tait
Pensacola,FL
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Summary
Open-World Narrative Designer specializing in systemic storytelling, branching dialogue, and large-scale narrative design for immersive game worlds. Designed and wrote narrative content for an open-world game, including main story, side missions, and ambient dialogue
- Developed branching dialogue systems to support player choice and dynamic interactions
- Created realistic, naturalistic character dialogue to enhance immersion and avoid repetitive NPC behavior
- Structured large-scale narrative content using Excel and Google Sheets to manage complex dialogue systems and world interactions
- Built immersive world scenarios through random encounters and environmental storytelling
- Organized narrative development across multiple production pipelines (story, audio, assets, and pre-production)
- Ensured tone consistency by refining and cutting content that did not align with the game’s grounded world design
Overview
16
16
years of professional experience
Work History
Cart Attendant
Walmart
11.2023 - Current
Writer
Heart of the Dawn Games
08.2010 - Current
Designed and wrote narrative content for an open-world game, including main story, side missions, and ambient dialogue
Developed branching dialogue systems to support player choice and dynamic interactions
Created realistic, naturalistic character dialogue to enhance immersion and avoid repetitive NPC behavior
Structured large-scale narrative content using Excel and Google Sheets to manage complex dialogue systems and world interactions
Built immersive world scenarios through random encounters and environmental storytelling
Organized narrative development across multiple production pipelines (story, audio, assets, and pre-production)
Ensured tone consistency by refining and cutting content that did not align with the game’s grounded world design
Food Service Worker
GCE
12.2021 - 01.2022
Education
High School Diploma - General Studies
Escambia High School
Pensacola, FL06.2020
Skills
- Designed and wrote a large-scale narrative system for an open-world game using Excel and Google Sheets, including:Main story missions
Side missions
Ambient world interactions
Dynamic NPC dialogue systems
- Developed branching dialogue trees with multiple outcomes, accounting for player choice, tone variation, and contextual responses
- Created hundreds of lines of naturalistic dialogue to simulate realistic character interactions, avoiding generic or repetitive NPC behavior
- Structured dialogue and narrative systems in a modular spreadsheet pipeline, enabling scalable AAA-style content development beyond traditional screenwriting tools
- Built immersive open-world scenarios, including:Random encounters (eg, veterans, hunters, civilians)
Environmental storytelling moments
Reactive NPC conversations based on player actions
- Implemented world-building through systemic dialogue, ensuring each region and character type has a distinct voice and identity
- Organized narrative content across multiple production sheets (Main Story, Audio, Assets, Production, Pre-Production), mirroring professional studio workflows
- Prioritized tone consistency and narrative cohesion, cutting content that did not align with the game’s grounded, realistic world design
- Collaborated with self-directed pipelines to simulate AAA development practices, focusing on scalability, player immersion, and narrative depth
Software
Spreadsheets
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Timeline
Cart Attendant
Walmart
11.2023 - Current
Food Service Worker
GCE
12.2021 - 01.2022
Writer
Heart of the Dawn Games
08.2010 - Current
High School Diploma - General Studies
Escambia High School