Comedic Writer - Game Dialog

Description

About Us

FableLabs builds NOTHING but awesome story-driven games for the tablet and web. Our team of creatives and technologists from BioWare, Maxis, LucasArts, Meteor, and Disney have built and scaled products with millions of users and we've recently closed on fundraising to scale our team. We take the best storytelling elements of adventure / role playing games but make the gameplay accessible, free-to-play and fun for those who don’t have 8 hour blocks of time to hack and slash through dungeons.

About You

Do you miss the humor found in old Sierra or LucasArts adventure games?  Have you memorized more quotes from Minsc in Baldur's Gate than you'd like to admit?  Did you secretly wish you could write all of the post-apocalyptic holodisk guides in Fallout?  We might have the dream job for you.  Being at an indie studio, we're not afraid of going off the beaten path with our games.  One of our first titles, Nerd Detective, features Sherlock Holmes recreating as a middle school nerd, solving nerd crimes.  Mint condition comic book collection gone missing? Call Carlton. Autographed dungeon master’s manual stolen? Call Carlton. Whenever crime spins its web around the nerds of Cod Lake, Carlton Honeycutt is there to untangle it. 

We've got an awesome creative team working on Nerd Detective but we can always use more firepower writing humorous dialog and world examines.  If you can hit the ground running in this function, we will be able to provide more places to contribute on ideation, narrative design, and story bible building in the future. So cinch up your bag of dice, stash your comic collection, and grab your spectacles.  The game is afoot!

Your Responsibilities

• Dialog (Primary): Creating dialog that makes people laugh and not skip to get to combat
• Narrative Design (Future): Step by step creation of quests and how they tie to the existing story, world, and characters
• Story Bible (Future): Ideation of interesting characters, backstories, worlds, and story seeds

Your Skills

• You must play video games and understand interactive storytelling
• College degree in screenwriting, creative writing, or similar
• 5+ years of professional writing experience, at least ONE in interactive
• Ability to elicit player emotion and express complex topics in concise language
• Ability to write punchy and engrossing dialog in different voices
• Bonus points for comic book or episodic television experience and ability to write for the camera
• You MUST have shipped at least 1 game

Application Details

• Contract position can be remote, however, full-time position if offered is located in SOMA district of SF (close to Bart, Muni and Caltrain).
• Please apply with resume + cover letter. No writing samples and word docs. Pro-Tip: Highlight relevant projects and make us laugh.