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Job Title: Writer
Department: Narrative
Reports to: Project Lead Writer
Please note: We are only accepting applications from within the UK.
Job Overview
To be one of our in-house writers working on existing and new games and interactive stories.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Drafting high quality episode scripts to tight deadlines
- Managing the scope and scale of your episodes to deliver scripts on time
- Doing rewrites which fully address all notes
- Writing compelling premium scenes that add appropriate value to player experience
- Writing compelling sells for premium scenes
- Ensuring cliff hangers land in a compelling way to maintain strong player retention
- Ensuring language and tone feels on brand for the IP and audience
- Reviewing and giving constructive, actionable notes to other writers
- Rewriting other writers' scripts where needed
- Actively contributing in writers' rooms
- Actively contributing in feedback, reviews and idea generation sessions
- Writes detailed and fun episode outlines which capture everything communicated in the writers' room and subsequent documentation
- Playtesting episodes with high attention to detail
- Keen understanding of what works and what doesn't in premium scenes and choices
- Contributing in meetings with other departments
- A proactive and solution approach within the narrative and other departments
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Skills & Experience
- Demonstrable experience writing for interactive fiction, mobile games or similar transferable experience
- Understanding and experience of choice-based narratives
- Strong understanding of player agency
- Understanding of free-to-play game mechanics
- Ability to be flexible, nimble and solution-focused in a fast moving creative environment.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Enthusiasm and respect for the process of giving, receiving, sharing, and implementing feedback.
- Ability to replicate an existing world with its own set of rules, characters, continuity, and tone, as well as create new ones.
- Excellent ear for dialogue, proficiency at writing multiple tones, as well as keen understanding of narrative pacing.
- A passion for serialised storytelling and interest in Interactive Fiction as well as innovation.
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Competencies
Creativity
- Develops content that connects with and engages players
- Creates and collaborates with team to develop inclusive storylines
Communication
- Is open and honest and encourages two-way communication
- Is confident when speaking with a variety of colleagues and peers, pitching information at the right level
- Aware of cultural differences and adapts style accordingly
Decision Making
- Confident in making sound decisions with minimal guidance
- Demonstrates a proactive approach to problem solving
- Learns from mistakes and is open to new ideas, embracing new processes and change
Behaviours
- Scriptwriting excellence
- Collaborative
- High attention to detail
- Solution focussed and proactive
- Strong communicator
- Creative
- Strives for excellence in their work and others
- Efficient, positive and calm under pressure
- Hard working
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Skills
Scriptwriting
Interactive fiction
Mobile games
Choice-based narratives
Player agency
Free-to-play mechanics
Dialogue writing
Narrative pacing
Playtesting
Creative writing
Collaboration
Feedback implementation
Storytelling
Communication skills
Problem solving
Location