Highstreet: Game Writer / Narrative Designer

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Client: Highstreet

Location: Remote

Contract: Part Time

Job Title: Game Writer / Narrative Designer

About Highstreet:

Highstreet is seeking a Game Writer to join our metaverse production team. Highstreet is a commerce-centric metaverse where in-game items are real products by real brands. We’re developing a rich MMORPG as a keystone of our experience, merging blockchain technology with the highest industry standards of game development.

As part of the Game Design Team, we are looking for a Game Writer who can acquire our game development philosophy to create the story, dialogue, and other written elements of our world, writing supporting text in multiple voices and helping us shape our story and universe. Besides that you will work assisting with other possible tasks related to content writing, such as short descriptions, long descriptions, taglines, etc., and writing marketing materials or press releases related to the game.

What we’re looking for:

Self-starter professionals comfortable working with minimal supervision in a decentralized structure, welcome constructive feedback and are not afraid to reduce scope in favor of preserving the team’s goals and adapting to technical and production constraints.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct in-depth research to shape the story and the characters accordingly
  • Create character profiles, story outlines, and plot outlines
  • Write dialogues and scripts for characters in the game
  • Assist with developing some narrative aspects of the game, and writing content for the game’s universe, such as text excerpts, lore snippets, etc
  • Work on the worldbuilding of the game by developing the universe and its surrounding, such as creating societies, world rules, environments, etc
  • Assist with other possible tasks related to content writing, such as quests, branded content, shopping experiences, etc
  • Write marketing materials or press releases related to the game
  • Participate in QA sessions to find bugs and help the dev team in finding solutions to fix buggy features and with feedback
  • Work with production and product management to effectively scope, prioritize, and deliver
  • Adapt to technical and production constraints, reworking your material whenever and as often as necessary

Requirements:

  • A minimum of 2-3 years with game writing and/or narrative design
  • Excellent communication, interpersonal, and organizational skills
  • Familiarity with VR gaming experience, including VR gameplay & design patterns
  • Comfortable working in an early game development environment
  • Strong English proficiency - Fluent in writing and speaking
  • Good time management skills with a proven ability to focus on priorities and meet deadlines
  • Ability to communicate effectively with different audiences on a broad range of topics, e.g., technical, business and creative (spoken and written)

Bonus Points:

  • Have worked on a published game as Game Writer and/or Narrative Designer
  • Experience working with narrative branching tools such as Twine, Arcweave, Articy Draft
  • English-native speaking background
  • Have worked on an MMO game before

Pay: $24,000.00 - $36,000.00(每年 )

Posted 2 years ago

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