Senior Writer
About The Position
Mob Entertainment is a startup multimedia studio best known for its hit indie horror game "Poppy Playtime". The franchise is one of the hottest new properties in gaming, and the team is expanding. The company is looking for a Senior Writer for its rapid prototyping Skunk Works team. This role will be responsible for investing in and assisting in the development of pre-existing concepts that require refinement, building and proving out. The Senior Writer will be critical in communicating with and setting expectations with any and all company and concept stakeholders while owning and explaining the narrative structure of concepts. This role will play a critical part in clarifying the core values, themes, tone, and mood of the worlds our prototypes live in, including characters, dialogue, and narrative arcs that could convincingly sustain episodic content into the future should the prototype be a success.
Requirements
- 10+ years writing for games
- Storyboarding experience in games, TV, and / or movies
- Strong understanding and passion for soft/gray in-world storytelling
- Solid communication and collaboration skills in a remote-first environment
- Service-based attitude. You thrill in bringing worlds and characters to life, regardless of origin
Nice To Haves
- Experience collaborating with design and art on world building implementation
- Experience directing voice actors
- Passion for the horror genre and atmospheric storytelling
- Storyboarding experience
Responsibilities
- Play a critical role in reviewing, clarifying and refining game concepts from a backlog
- Interpret concepts with authors, manifesting narrative arcs for each concept that could sustain episodic content
- Using the premise of any given concept, you define plot, theme, tone, mood and create characters and settings to inform the prototype efforts
- Story boarding story beats to inform development of prototypes
- Advise and critique co-dev teams’ prototype work where necessary
- Drive the organization and conducting of recording sessions for story-based audio
Benefits
- profit sharing
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- FSA/HSA
- paid time off
- sick time
- holidays
- parental leave
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
