Odin Shafer

Narrative Director @Ubisoft

Narrative Director (formerly Lead Writer) on un-announced narrative-driven project at Ubisoft.\\\\nOn unannounced narrative-driven, project at Ubisoft.\\\\n• Finding, assembling, and leading a diverse team of experienced writers from television, film, and video games.\\\\n• Organizing and running writers’ rooms and training Ubisoft managers in running writers’ rooms.\\\\n• Creating process overviews, style and craft guidelines, prototypes, and sequence executions for the Paris team and our freelancers.\\\\n• Writing voice over scripts, treatments, synopsizes, character bios, cinematic scripts, and sequence overviews.\\\\n• Creating and documenting: process overviews, style and craft guidelines, prototypes, sample sequence executions, voice over script examples, screenplays samples for cinematics, character biographies, and backstories.\\\\n• Reset team rituals and collaborations with Realization, World-building, Game Design, and Mission Design to create a positive workflow.\\\\n• Defining goalposts, narrative direction, and tonal guardrails for gameplay and cinematics to maximize player experience and engagement.\\\\n• Evaluating and integrating AI and ChatGPT into the creative process.(Ongoing)\\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n \\\\n\\\\n \\\\n