Retainer - Scriptwriter (6 months Contract)

RETAINER - SCRIPTWRITER (6 months Contract)

Objective of the role:

Understand the intentions of the creative director in order to put his/her vision into words.

• Develop and evolve scripts from narrative story lines, character development and other narrative foundations.
• Collaborate with various internal teams such as Gameplay, Cinematics, Audio to realize a cohesive and engaging narrative experience.
• Ensure alignment with the creative direction and lead content designers when developing all world, character, reference, locations, and script elements with designers and writers.
• Write script so that team members from different crafts have a point of reference.
• Detail the general story as a storyline in a way that includes all of the decisions that a player could possibly make.
• Create character descriptions.
• Describe the places and atmospheres.
• Structure the dialogues based on gameplay events.
• Write the script for the cinematics, scripted events and all in-game dialogue.
• Write the other game texts (menus, displayed texts).
• Work in close collaboration with the team members who oversee the design of the narrative.
• Review scripts, read-throughs, recorded dialogue and provide revisions based upon personal assessments and internal/external feedback.
• Provide feedback on narrative design that best serves the development of compelling and engaging scripts.
• Provide immediate on-set and in-booth dialogue revisions.
• Ensure that all reference documents are up to date.
• Collaborate in the supervision of the script with the scripted events production team.
• Carry out all other related tasks.

Relevant Experience:

• Minimum 5 years experience in developing and writing scripts in a high demand media environment.
• Preference will be given to experience gained working in a game development context.

Other Skills:

• Organizational skills.
• Inspired by people and world events.
• Curiosity.
• Creativity

We embrace a hybrid work model helping you stay connectedwith your team and aligned with business priorities, while giving you the opportunity to maintain your work-life balance.Note, that some roles are fully office-based and are not eligible for hybrid work.