Game Writer

IMU Studios creates refreshing experiences for gamers. Thrilling, fun adventures that shake the foundations of the industries we enter. We have assembled a team of video game underdogs, all hungry to be the next heroes. Together we are pushing everything to be more exciting!

IMU Studios was founded when game developer Robert Strutin’s market research revealed fresh opportunities in the video game industry, crossing market lines of gameplay and revenue models. Our home studio is nestled in the beautiful, inspiring mountains of British Columbia, Canada, with active Team Members contributing worldwide. Our expert team of game developers and artists are passionate about their craft and producing profound entertainment experiences. We create exhilarating video games that enrich your life and empower you as a player.

About the Game

Our cinematic open-world hero shooter video game takes place on Nebulous Prime, a small planet in the beautiful Stellar Jewel Box nebula. Filled with playable stories, meaningful quests, arenas, and game challenges. Allowing players to freely explore and discover all of the beautiful details as revealed. TEAM IMU creates environments that players can experience in awe, all built on the visual power and performance of the Unreal Engine.

Website: iplaymore.com

For which tasks (responsibilities)?

As our experienced sci-fi, high-fantasy Game Writer you will join our writers, Lore Master, and Head Writer to create training quests and game story content to immerse players deeper into our game world. Capturing the voices of our NPC characters who interact, guide, and train, as well as each evening, they gather around the bonfires to tell their versions of the game’s various intertwined stories of how and why this is all happening here.

Establishing these characters and their traits is critical to developing this level of immersion. The Game Writer also works with Gameplay Programmers, our Game Designer, Dialog Producer, and Audio Designer to determine the ideal context for that game content for in-game implementation.

As a successful candidate, you will be an expert in integrating gameplay and storytelling, creating, considering, and reviewing scenes with an understanding of what makes good content entertaining and humorous.

Responsibilities:

Keep all narrative reference documents up to date. Incorporate feedback, rewrite and revise content to meet expectations. Write entertaining training Quests that teach one, gameplay concept to the players. Review and update existing scripts understanding the effect those updates have on the game narrative as a whole. Learn the gameplay elements to assess how they affect the story development.

What kind of professional are we looking for?

3-5 years of experience in scriptwriting or relevant story experience. Understanding of game Narrative and the role that dialogue has on the player's experiences. Professional writing samples are required for consideration. Excellent use of English Grammar, and subtext. The ability to write in other languages is a bonus.

Key Duties:

Meet with our writers to focus on tasks. Write, share and adjust to responses. Plan and create structures to feed ongoing lore.

Key Traits:

Available, eager, and excited to work. A real team player who gets their tasks completed. Acts on time and pushes for excellence.