GAME WRITER / GAME NARRATIVE WRITER
Dorothy GameShanghaiUpdate time: July 18,2022
Job Description
Language:
• English, Native level
Responsibilities:
1. Oversee story development for casual mobile game being developed for English native speaking countries, America particularly. Build upon our game world, encompassing characters, lore, and locales, developing these according to player feedback and direction from designers.
2. Create game characters, with your storytelling skills to create and build their personalities, language style, backgrounds, and connections to other characters. Also play a part in designing their appearance.
3. Write scenarios to be developed into animations and actual gameplay based on requirements communicated by design team.
4. Write story scripts that describe characters’ behavior and speech to provide designers with a proposed real-time account of game narrative.
5. Prepare detailed textual and photographic descriptions of locales to be used for game levels.
6. Communicate with design team regularly to clarify ongoing story requirements. Alter plot, character, action, and dialogue to fit rapidly changing requirements.
7. Assist in designing the image of the main buildings in the game.
8. Assist in designing the music and sound effects in the game.
Requirements:
1. Writing portfolio or draft of novel, novella, screenplay, teleplay, stage play, visual novel, graphic novel, or other narrative-driven work. Any published works are a plus.
2. Deep understanding of character creation of Disney/Pixar and great films.
2. Extensive understanding of American pop culture, particularly TV & films.
3. Interest in comedies, stand-up comedy and memes.
4. Familiar with the culture of Gen-Z.
6. Playing a lot of games builds an innate sense of what feels right in a game, and what doesn’t. There is no way to learn this “on the job” because it takes many years to build up, so for this reason we can only interview candidates that really call themselves gamers.
7. Experience as a screenwriter or game narrative designer preferred.
9. Reside in Shanghai is preferred.
10. Below 35 yrs old, English native speaker, Male.
Job type: Full-time in-office position
Work Visa: Provided
• English, Native level
Responsibilities:
1. Oversee story development for casual mobile game being developed for English native speaking countries, America particularly. Build upon our game world, encompassing characters, lore, and locales, developing these according to player feedback and direction from designers.
2. Create game characters, with your storytelling skills to create and build their personalities, language style, backgrounds, and connections to other characters. Also play a part in designing their appearance.
3. Write scenarios to be developed into animations and actual gameplay based on requirements communicated by design team.
4. Write story scripts that describe characters’ behavior and speech to provide designers with a proposed real-time account of game narrative.
5. Prepare detailed textual and photographic descriptions of locales to be used for game levels.
6. Communicate with design team regularly to clarify ongoing story requirements. Alter plot, character, action, and dialogue to fit rapidly changing requirements.
7. Assist in designing the image of the main buildings in the game.
8. Assist in designing the music and sound effects in the game.
Requirements:
1. Writing portfolio or draft of novel, novella, screenplay, teleplay, stage play, visual novel, graphic novel, or other narrative-driven work. Any published works are a plus.
2. Deep understanding of character creation of Disney/Pixar and great films.
2. Extensive understanding of American pop culture, particularly TV & films.
3. Interest in comedies, stand-up comedy and memes.
4. Familiar with the culture of Gen-Z.
6. Playing a lot of games builds an innate sense of what feels right in a game, and what doesn’t. There is no way to learn this “on the job” because it takes many years to build up, so for this reason we can only interview candidates that really call themselves gamers.
7. Experience as a screenwriter or game narrative designer preferred.
9. Reside in Shanghai is preferred.
10. Below 35 yrs old, English native speaker, Male.
Job type: Full-time in-office position
Work Visa: Provided
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