Script Doctor

Kwalee is one of the world’s leading multiplatform game publishers and developers, with well over 750 million downloads worldwide for mobile hits such as Draw It, Teacher Simulator, Let’s Be Cops 3D, Traffic Cop 3D and Makeover Studio 3D. Alongside this, we also have a growing PC and Console team of incredible pedigree that is on the hunt for great new titles to join TENS, Eternal Hope and Die by the Blade.

With a team of talented people collaborating daily between our studios in Leamington Spa, Bangalore and Beijing, or on a remote basis from Turkey, Brazil, the Philippines and many more places, and we've recently acquired our first external studio, TicTales which is based in France. We have a truly global team making games for a global audience. And it’s paying off: Kwalee has been recognised with the Best Large Studio and Best Leadership awards from TIGA (The Independent Game Developers’ Association).

Founded in 2011 by David Darling CBE, a key architect of the UK games industry who previously co-founded and led Codemasters for many years, our team also includes legends such as Andrew Graham (creator of Micro Machines series) and Jason Falcus (programmer of classics including NBA Jam) alongside a growing and diverse team of global gaming experts.

This position is working with the Tictales studio - Drawing inspiration from visual novels and gamebooks, we provide interactive story apps, franchises, and services for many genres & audiences: romance, thriller, medical drama, fantasy and more Our stories can be experienced on web browsers or mobile stand-alone apps.

Tictales are experts in crafting the best narrative and interactive storytelling experiences with a long-term vision : to bring bigger franchises to the world and enable content creators from everywhere to express themselves.

**What’s the job?**

As a Script Doctor you’ll be helping to amend, write and finalise game story scripts to make sure they flow well, have a great tone of voice and are grammatically correct. You will review and provide feedback to the writers team in order for them to improve their scripts. You will participate in the brainstorming sessions to create new stories alongside the writer and creative director in order to create the documentation for it (synopsis, characters sheet, world building and outline)

**What you tell your friends you do**

“I make sure our stories are perfectly told to our audiences to give them a wonderful experience”

**What you will really be doing**
- Review story’s scripts and give relevant feedback to the writers.
- Touching up and re-writing scripts
- Making sure scripts are grammatically correct
- Making sure scripts have the correct, and consistent tone of voice
- Working on several projects at once, often to tight deadlines
- Documentations : synopsis, outline, character sheet, world building.

**How you will be doing this**
- You’ll be part of an agile, multidisciplinary and creative team and work closely with them to ensure the best results.
- You'll think creatively and be motivated by challenges and constantly striving for the best.
- You’ll work with cutting edge technology, if you need software or hardware to get the job done efficiently, you will get it. We even have a robot

**Team**

Our talented team is our signature. We have a highly creative atmosphere with more than 300 staff where you’ll have the opportunity to contribute daily to important decisions. You’ll work within an extremely experienced, passionate and diverse team, including David Darling and the creator of the Micro Machines video games.

**Skills and Requirement**
- Previous experience in a Script doctoring or writing role.
- Strong project management skills: well organised, agile and reactive, used to very tight schedule and deadlines
- Fluent English, with a keen eye for details on spelling, grammar and tone of voice
- Voracious appetite for reading a wide variety of literature

**We offer**
- We want everyone involved in our games to share our success, that’s why we have a generous team profit sharing scheme from day 1 of employment
- In addition to a competitive salary we also offer private medical cover and life assurance
- Creative Wednesdays (Pitch and make your own games every Wednesday)
- 20 days of paid holidays plus bank holidays
- Hybrid model available depending on the department and the role
- Relocation support available
- Great work-life balance with flexible working hours
- Quarterly team building days - work hard, play hard
- Monthly employee awards
- Free snacks, fruit and drinks

**Our philosophy**

We firmly believe in creativity and innovation and that a fundamental requirement for a successful and happy company is having the right mix of individuals. With the right people in the right environment anything and everything is possible.

Kwalee makes games to bring people, their stories, and their interests together. As an employer, we’re dedicated to making sur