About the role
Employment Requirement
- Only accepting applications from within the UK.
Job Overview
- In-house writer for Big Brother The Game IP.
Key Responsibilities & Accountabilities
- Drafting high quality episode scripts to tight deadlines.
- Managing the scope and scale of your episodes to deliver scripts on time.
- Doing rewrites which fully address all notes.
- Writing compelling premium scenes that add appropriate value to player experience.
- Writing compelling sells for premium scenes.
- Ensuring cliff hangers land in a compelling way to maintain strong player retention.
- Ensuring language and tone feels on brand for the IP and audience.
- Reviewing and giving constructive, actionable notes to other writers.
- Rewriting other writers' scripts where needed.
- Actively contributing in writers' rooms.
- Actively contributing in feedback, reviews and idea generation sessions.
- Writes detailed and fun episode outlines which capture everything communicated in the writers' room and subsequent documentation.
- Playtesting episodes with high attention to detail.
- Keen understanding of what works and what doesn't in premium scenes and choices.
- Contributing in meetings with other departments.
- A proactive and solution approach within the narrative and other departments.
Skills & Experience
- Demonstrable experience writing for interactive fiction, mobile games or similar transferable experience.
- Understanding and experience of choice-based narratives.
- Strong understanding of player agency.
- Understanding of free-to-play game mechanics.
- Ability to be flexible, nimble and solution-focused in a fast moving creative environment.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Enthusiasm and respect for the process of giving, receiving, sharing, and implementing feedback.
- Ability to replicate an existing world with its own set of rules, characters, continuity, and tone, as well as create new ones.
- Excellent ear for dialogue, proficiency at writing multiple tones, as well as keen understanding of narrative pacing.
- A passion for serialised storytelling and interest in Interactive Fiction as well as innovation.
Competencies
Creativity
- Develops content that connects with and engages players.
- Creates and collaborates with team to develop inclusive storylines.
Communication
- Is open and honest and encourages two-way communication.
- Is confident when speaking with a variety of colleagues and peers, pitching information at the right level.
- Aware of cultural differences and adapts style accordingly.
Decision Making
- Confident in making sound decisions with minimal guidance.
- Demonstrates a proactive approach to problem solving.
- Learns from mistakes and is open to new ideas, embracing new processes and change.
Behaviours
- Scriptwriting excellence
- Collaborative
- High attention to detail
- Solution focussed and proactive
- Strong communicator
- Creative
- Strives for excellence in their work and others
- Efficient, positive and calm under pressure
- Hard working