Game Writer

The Role

Creative Assembly 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 titles in the Total War franchise.

This role is Hybrid and has an expectation of 3 days per week (Tuesday-Thursday) in our Sofia studio. Further details can be discussed during the recruitment process.

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.

Chosen applicants will be asked to complete a writing test of approximately 2500 words before progressing to the interview stage.

Our ideal candidate:

• Works well independently or under occasional direction, with a willingness to take on tasks at short notice or with challenging deadlines.
• Writes with a clear understanding of quality and player needs, receiving and acting upon feedback and constructive criticism well.
• Identifies the best approach to complete writing briefs efficiently and to the highest possible quality.
• Takes a proactive and inquisitive approach to iterate and deliver writing required at all stages of game development.
• Collaborates effectively with multiple disciplines in a diverse hybrid working environment.
• A good communicator who can build trust with cowriters and stakeholders.
• You’ll be enthusiastic and passionate about games, books and other popular culture.

What you’ll be doing

On a day to day basis you will:

• Write in-game descriptions, tooltips and world-building text as required by the Lead Writer, narrative designers and design teams.
• Write character VO scripts and biographies for characters and units.
• Edit and iterate both in-game text and dialogue scripts identified above.
• Collaborate with designers on both secondary game narratives and primary game-defining story arcs.
• Provide writing support where required for cinematic assets such as in-game movies or trailers.
• Review and maintain writing database to achieve writing goals and identify remedial action if required.
• 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.
• 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.

What we are looking for

Essential

• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Knowledge of Games Workshop’s IPs, particularly Warhammer 40k and Fantasy.
• 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.

Desirable

• Strategy game dev experience.
• Experience working with IP partner style guides and approvals.
• Knowledge/interest in history.