Game Writer

4 Days ago • All levels • Game Story Writing/Narrative Design

Job Summary

Job Description

Creative Assembly seeks a Game Writer for their Total War Warhammer DLCs in Sofia, Bulgaria. Responsibilities include writing in-game descriptions, tooltips, world-building text, dialogue, character scripts, and biographies. Collaboration with designers on narratives, understanding gameplay elements for tutorials, implementing text into databases, and supporting cinematic assets are key. The ideal candidate possesses outstanding written and verbal skills, experience in published media, strong storytelling abilities, research skills, and the capacity to meet deadlines while maintaining high writing standards. They should be a team player and able to receive and implement feedback effectively. The role demands efficient task estimation and excellent communication skills.
Must have:
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills
  • Experience in writing prose and dialogue
  • Understanding of storytelling structures
  • Efficient research and information distillation
  • Ability to meet deadlines and maintain quality
Good to have:
  • Experience with game development tools
  • Basic Excel proficiency
  • Understanding of editing and proofreading
Perks:
  • Additional medical and dental insurance
  • Additional holiday allowance
  • Annual discretionary studio bonus
  • Career development pathways and training
  • Public transportation card
  • Monthly food vouchers
  • Wellbeing support
  • Free games and merchandise
  • Free breakfast

Job Details

Description

The Total War franchise is seeking a new Writer with a talent and passion for narrative, dialogue and world-building to help us create written content for our much-anticipated Warhammer DLCs. 
 
If you are interested in this exciting opportunity, please submit your resume along with a cover letter detailing your experience and enthusiasm for the role. 
  
Key Responsibilities 
  • Write in-game descriptions, tooltips and world-building text as required by narrative designers and design teams.
  • Collaborate with designers on both secondary game narratives and primary game-defining story arcs.
  • Write dialogue, character VO scripts and biographies for characters and units.
  • Learn gameplay elements quickly for the purposes of writing clear and concise instructional or tutorial pieces.
  • Understand the writing pipeline and implement final text to game databases when necessary.
  • Provide writing support for cinematic assets such as in-game movies or trailers.
  • Deliver all writing tasks with spell-checked and grammatically correct text to given deadlines.
  • Maintain high writing standards, conventions and tone of voice across Total War titles.
  • Identify and fix text bugs. 
  
Knowledge, Skill and Experience
  • Outstanding written and verbal communication skills.
  • Experience in writing prose and dialogue within any form of published media.
  • Ability to identify and use the correct tone, format and style to fulfil a given writing brief. 
  • Understanding of storytelling structures, characterisation and worldbuilding. 
  • Efficient at researching diverse topics and distilling information relevant to writing for Total War games. 
  • Ability to learn basic dev and debug tools helpful to all writing pipelines. 
  • Can estimate tasks and deliver within agreed timeframes.
  • Works effectively with editorial leadership for revisions, rewrites and polish.
  • Understanding of and basic ability to deliver editing and proofreading.
  • Basic Excel proficiency. 
The ideal candidate… 
  • Works well independently or under occasional direction.
  • Is willing to take on tasks at short notice or with challenging deadlines.
  • Receives and acts upon constructive criticism and feedback well.
  • Collaborates effectively with multiple disciplines in a diverse working environment.
  • Writes with a clear understanding of quality and players’ needs.
  • Is proactive and inquisitive to learn how writing aids all stages of game development pipelines.
  • Identifies the best approach to complete writing briefs efficiently and to the highest possible quality. 
  • Is a good communicator who builds trust with cowriters and stakeholders.
  • Is enthusiastic and passionate about games, books and other popular culture. 
About Creative Assembly
Creative Assembly crafts deep and detailed games that last, entertaining millions of players across the globe for decades.
We are all game makers and we care deeply about the experiences we create. We empower our teams to make significant contributions to our games, supported by skills development and growth opportunities.
We are located in Horsham, UK in Newcastle, UK and Sofia, Bulgaria.
We offer many benefits to support you and your family including:
  • Additional medical and dental health insurance for you, your partner and kids, life insurance, and free health care screening
  • Additional holiday allowance plus full studio closure over the Christmas and New Year period, as all Bulgarian Bank holidays
  • Annual discretionary studio bonus
  • Defined career development pathways and personalised training support including; SEGA Dev Day, internal masterclasses, prestigious creative workshops, on-site training with renowned specialists and global conference attendance
  • Public transportation card
  • Monthly food vouchers
  • Wellbeing support with an employee assistance programme
  • Free games and merchandise plus access to our extensive games library
  • Free breakfast every day - toast, cereals, yoghurts, fresh fruit, soft drinks and more in our fully stocked kitchen
  • Options for subscribing to additional health, wellness and sports services
  • Office massages
  • Studio parties for you and your family; such as our Summer and Christmas parties, Children’s day party, wrap parties for game releases
  • Our studio sites have disabled access.
We are an equal opportunities employer and encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of sex, race, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief.
 
Note to Recruitment Agencies: SEGA Europe Limited and our studios do not accept unsolicited candidate introductions from unauthorised third parties. For the avoidance of doubt, SEGA Europe is not liable for any fees, compensation or any other costs associated with the introduction of a candidate or recruitment services unless and until an agreement has been duly executed. Further details can be found here.
 
  

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