About the role
Position Details
- Role: Writer and Narrative Designer (Senior/Mid-Level)
- Position type: Full-time (35 hours a week)
- Length: Permanent
- Location: Remote
- Application deadline: October 21st, 2026
- Visa: Sponsorship available for UK work visa
About the Role
The role involves working on Fallen London, a live-service RPG that is over 16 years old with more than four and a half million words. Development is funded by monthly subscriptions and premium stories.
Core Responsibilities:
- Pitch story arcs to other writers and participate in high-level planning for upcoming work.
- Write stories of varying length, complexity, and tone, covering a wide range of subject matter.
- Design quality-based narrative structures that support story, theme, and gameplay.
- Update and extend existing content, including seasonal events.
- Offer feedback on work by other writers.
- Provide short marketing copy (blurbs) for released or upcoming stories.
- Draft briefs for artists to illustrate written work.
Requirements
- Skills and Experience: No specific degree or number of shipped titles required; applicants must demonstrate ability to do the job well.
- Writing Proficiency: Strong conventional writing skills (prose/novelistic style) and a very high level of English proficiency with sensitivity to linguistic nuance.
- Quality-Based Narrative: Must be comfortable translating story ideas into a quality-based framework. Experience in interactive writing beyond simple branching narratives is required.
- Availability: Must be available during core hours of 11:00 to 16:00 UK time. Residents of locations four or more hours removed from the UK should think carefully before applying; those six or more hours removed are advised against applying unless personal circumstances are highly unusual.
Optional Extras
- Familiarity with Fallen London or related settings.
- System design skills (balancing costs, rewards, and progression curves).
- Experience writing functional specs to explain game features to programmers.
- Experience guiding freelance writers from pitch to completion.
Remote Work and Employment Structure
- The company is based in the UK and pays UK salaries.
- Candidates outside the UK will likely be hired on a contract basis due to administrative requirements, and they will be paid at a higher rate to compensate for the lack of standard employee benefits.
What We Can Offer
- Safe, respectful environment with transparent decision-making.
- Emphasis on healthy work-life balance and elimination of crunch.
- Flexible start times and support for compressed hours.
- 25 days of leave plus UK public holidays.
- Additional long-service leave every fifth year.
- Parental leave provisions.
- Employer pension contributions.
- Private health insurance and dental care.
- Reimbursement for annual Covid and flu vaccines.
- Paid attendance at industry events.
- Annual, expenses-paid company gathering in the UK.
- One silent day per week (no meetings or Slack).
- Periodic consultations with subject matter experts.
Application Process
Required Documents:
- PDF version of CV.
- One to three short writing samples (at least one must be prose fiction or from a game).
- Cover letter.
Process Stages:
- Stage 1: Initial application review (feedback not provided).
- Stage 2: Short written questions for 5-15% of candidates (feedback provided).
- Stage 3: Remote interview lasting 60 to 90 minutes.
Sample Guidelines:
- Shorter samples are preferred.
- Prose fiction or interactive narrative samples are most useful.
- Avoid screenplays (maximum one) and non-fiction.
- Fallen London fan fiction is discouraged.
- Do not tailor samples specifically to this application; send work that represents your general skills.