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I'm Al Stellakis, a narrative designer focused on cohesion and meaningful player experiences. I craft story and dialogue to tie together mechanics, world-building, and systems across games, always aiming to give the player's journey context and purpose. I believe narrative is the layer that gives meaning to action and depth to the world. I collaborate with designers, artists, animators, and backend teams to ensure the game communicates value and resonates emotionally. I ask difficult questions about why players act, how a world can show its values without text, and what the gameplay says about characters and themes; and I design the answers. I thrive in multidisciplinary teams and aim to elevate gameplay through purposeful narrative design, world-building, and dialogue that reflect the player’s journey and the game world alike.…I'm Al Stellakis, a narrative designer focused on cohesion and meaningful player experiences. I craft story and dialogue to tie together mechanics, world-building, and systems across games, always aiming to give the player's journey context and purpose. I believe narrative is the layer that gives meaning to action and depth to the world. I collaborate with designers, artists, animators, and backend teams to ensure the game communicates value and resonates emotionally. I ask difficult questions about why players act, how a world can show its values without text, and what the gameplay says about characters and themes; and I design the answers. I thrive in multidisciplinary teams and aim to elevate gameplay through purposeful narrative design, world-building, and dialogue that reflect the player’s journey and the game world alike.

Al Stellakis

Writer, Game Designer, Game Developer, +3

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I'm Al Stellakis, a narrative designer focused on cohesion and meaningful player experiences. I craft story and dialogue to tie together mechanics, world-building, and systems across games, always aiming to give the player's journey context and purpose. I believe narrative is the layer that gives meaning to action and depth to the world. I collaborate with designers, artists, animators, and backend teams to ensure the game communicates value and resonates emotionally. I ask difficult questions about why players act, how a world can show its values without text, and what the gameplay says about characters and themes; and I design the answers. I thrive in multidisciplinary teams and aim to elevate gameplay through purposeful narrative design, world-building, and dialogue that reflect the player’s journey and the game world alike.…I'm Al Stellakis, a narrative designer focused on cohesion and meaningful player experiences. I craft story and dialogue to tie together mechanics, world-building, and systems across games, always aiming to give the player's journey context and purpose. I believe narrative is the layer that gives meaning to action and depth to the world. I collaborate with designers, artists, animators, and backend teams to ensure the game communicates value and resonates emotionally. I ask difficult questions about why players act, how a world can show its values without text, and what the gameplay says about characters and themes; and I design the answers. I thrive in multidisciplinary teams and aim to elevate gameplay through purposeful narrative design, world-building, and dialogue that reflect the player’s journey and the game world alike.

Available to hire

I’m Al Stellakis, a narrative designer focused on cohesion and meaningful player experiences. I craft story and dialogue to tie together mechanics, world-building, and systems across games, always aiming to give the player’s journey context and purpose. I believe narrative is the layer that gives meaning to action and depth to the world. I collaborate with designers, artists, animators, and backend teams to ensure the game communicates value and resonates emotionally. I ask difficult questions about why players act, how a world can show its values without text, and what the gameplay says about characters and themes; and I design the answers.

I thrive in multidisciplinary teams and aim to elevate gameplay through purposeful narrative design, world-building, and dialogue that reflect the player’s journey and the game world alike.

Skills

Copywriting

Script

Experience Level

Copywriting

Expert

Script

Expert

Language

English

Fluent

Armenian

Beginner

Greek, Modern

Fluent

Work Experience

Narrative Designer at Prism Studio

June 1, 2025 - November 21, 2025

Crafting the lore and backstory for Heptic Arena; character bio and conditional dialogue for the game show host who acts as narrator in a gladiatorial TV show; creating narrative context for in-game systems, mechanics, skills, and areas.

Lead Omni Reality Architect at Watajis

January 1, 2024 - November 21, 2025

Creating unique backstory for each location (station) in the game; writing missions themed to each location; writing UX descriptions for UI assets; conception and writing of a massive core story spanning the game.

Senior Narrative Designer at Magic Media

April 1, 2025 - April 1, 2025

Crafting the background lore, timeline, and narrative for an upcoming game; helping the design team with tasks such as the quest system and providing artistic descriptions to aid visualizing the world; providing content to enrich the company's portfolio.

Lead Narrative Designer at Tau Station

December 1, 2024 - December 1, 2024

Conception, pitching, and writing of interactive player missions that explore the plots and themes of Tau Station; writing episodic story-lines; writing area descriptions, tutorials, tooltips, and item descriptions; contribute content for social media; assist with development of tools and systems to improve narrative workflow.

Narrative Designer at Illuvium.io

August 1, 2024 - August 1, 2024

Conceptualizing, drafting, and refining mission outlines, objectives, dialogues, and story arcs; collaborating with designers and developers to integrate narrative into mission structures; creating characters, factions, and lore; conducting research to inform mission design and enhance immersion; providing feedback to team members on mission design and narrative coherence.

Writer at Fashion League | Finfin Play

December 1, 2023 - December 1, 2023

Conception of the main storyline, NPCs and side-quests; writing dialogue and scripting cut scenes; writing promotional material.

Narrative Designer at Triumph Studios

October 1, 2022 - October 1, 2022

Conception, creation, and implementation of story events; designing and writing lore for locations, events, monsters, and other assets; writing narrative text for assorted tooltips.

UX Writer at Beat

September 1, 2021 - September 1, 2021

Shaping human-centered experience on mobile apps, website, and product communications; defining content strategy; writing on-brand product copy; coordinating localization writers to translate content to all markets.

Freelance Writer at Freelance

September 1, 2020 - September 1, 2020

Providing writing, narrative design, and content marketing, SEO, social media and UX copy for various businesses and game companies.

Narrative Designer at Deep Silver Dambuster Studios

April 1, 2019 - April 1, 2019

Writing naturalistic and concise dialogue; collaborating with Level Design and Audio to implement in-game dialogue; coordinating with art, animation, and design to create environmental storytelling; assisting in the creation of the game’s main story and supporting stories.

Narrative Designer at Beijing Kunlun Tech Co Ltd

September 1, 2018 - September 1, 2018

Character creation, narrative design, and story-boarding for superhero themed interactive choices game, New Avalon.

Narrative Designer at Rock Pocket Games

March 1, 2018 - March 1, 2018

Generated background lore, plot, characters and dialogue for project code-named Voidcast (currently in development).

Writer & Narrative Designer at Moons of Madness / Rock Pocket Games

November 1, 2017 - November 1, 2017

Writer & Narrative Designer for Moons of Madness; creating character backstories, dialogue, VO direction and world lore.

Lead Writer / Narrative Designer at Aventurine

November 1, 2015 - November 1, 2015

Crafting lore and history for the world of Agon; designing quests, assets, and in-game text; VO direction and promotional copy.

Writer / Content Creator at Oli and Spike

March 1, 2015 - March 1, 2015

Creation of main story and lore; writing branching dialogue; VO direction and promo copy.

Copywriter at Persado UK

March 1, 2017 - March 1, 2017

Generating, proofreading, & editing marketing copy for UK clients.

Senior Copywriter at Purple Travel

January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2017

Generating copy and providing SEO rich content across the board from websites to destination micro-sites, travel-blogs, presentations and social media.

Content Writer at Avocarrot

April 1, 2016 - April 1, 2016

Design and execute the big content marketing plan; engage users on social media; coordinate with engineers; write, read, and proofread content.

Owner at WSI Internet Marketing Consultants

April 1, 2015 - April 1, 2015

Digital Marketing Consulting focusing on SEO and social media; building client strategies.

Lead Writer at HGDA - Amnesty the Game

November 1, 2011 - November 1, 2011

Lead writer for Amnesty International game; proofing and editing of other writers’ works, creating characters and storyboards, writing and editing all copy including in-game elements, stories and manuals.

Quality Control Representative at Blizzard Entertainment

December 31, 2009 - December 31, 2009

General managerial duties; training and evaluating CS employees; generating internal documentation and guidelines.

Broadcast Logistics at Athens Olympic Broadcasting (2004 Olympics)

December 31, 2004 - December 31, 2004

Broadcast services and logistics for the 2004 Olympic Games.

Media Planner at Universal McCann

December 31, 2002 - December 31, 2002

Coordination and planning of TV marketing campaigns.