Seeking writer(s) for Fountain of Youth
Hello all, I hope you are well. I'm Mark and I've been involved with a freeware Indy game for many years, and also helped on the fan-film Treasure of The Templars which is getting ever closer to finished (it was through this forum that I got involved in that one, woohoo!).
I wanted to post here an opportunity to help us with some writing for the game. We're pushing harder again and will now deliver Fountain of Youth in chapters (and string them together at the end). You may have already played the demo (link below).
I wanted to post this here as I know there are some great writers within this community. And of course, for an Indy game there's no better place. So I hope you'll allow me to post the full description (below).
However to be able to do this we need to patch up certain areas of our team again. The largest hole currently being writers. So, here's the full info:
Seeking writers
The long standing project
Fountain of Youth seeks new writers to join the team and help us deliver the game. For those that are not aware, we have chosen to release the game as chapters and then string them altogether at the end of the process. This helps us concentrate on smaller portions of the game at a time reducing the workload.
Fountain of Youth is a freeware game in the style of Fate of Atlantis and a playable demo can be found here:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/724/
We have a well formed team at present but lacking on members who can focus their time and skill on writing. I believe solid writing comes from a good writer, not from a team of people whose primary roles aren't writing. The game has a fantastic story, drafted up by Lorn Conner several years ago. Although the story has evolved further still, we really need someone to come and put it altogether and help us get the right story elements, arcs and adventure into each chapter.
Lead Writer
It will be your job to bring the whole story together into a meaningful journey. We're not expecting you to focus on dialogue, rather help us structure the story itself and write a decent guideline of the entire storyline for the rest of the team to follow and work from. At present, this does not exist in any full form. It will be your job to turn what exists of the story into a workable format that we can later, as a team, break down and create chapters from.
You should be: A competent writer who's first language is English. If you're American and a fan of Indy that is also a plus, but not essential. You should have an very good grasp of story structure. We would also hope you have an understanding of game design, as we must be able to make compromises in the script with what's actually possible to do on screen.
Please note. We will also welcome your ideas. You'll definitely have input in how the story unfolds, locations and such. We do not want to "change" the story but we are certainly open to your interpretation of it, and if you feel it requires more or less, we'll listen. You will have certain control over what happens in the game.
This position is open to one person, possibly 2.
How to apply:
> Send me an email (no PM's please) to mark at screen7.co.uk with subject "Fountain of Youth lead writer"
> Include any previous writing and game credits
> You will be asked to submit a sample of your writing (no more than 500 words) after this initial contact
Additional writers
Several positions here for people who want to write hotspot descriptions and other lines of text that feature in the game. It will also be your task to do some researching into the objects, scenarios and locations in the game to help bring meaningful dialogue, descriptions and other written elements within the game.
This position is open to 2 to 6 people.
How to apply:
> Send me an email (no PM's please) to mark at screen7.co.uk with subject "Fountain of Youth additional writer"
> Include any previous writing and game credits
> You will be asked to submit a sample of your writing (no more than 100 words) after this initial contact
FURTHER INFORMATION:
We are in the thick of developing & finishing
Chapter 1 at the moment. The team meet once a week on Skype to discuss progress, ideas and move the development forward. We would expect you to be able to make some of these meetings or at least keep up to date with them by reading the transcripts.
We're looking for people who can dedicate a couple of hours a week on their role for the game. We certainly don't want you to have a meltdown over it
If you are passionate about writing, we'd certainly like to hear from you. It's a free game so there is no payment, but you will of course get credit, and everything else that comes with an anticipated game release.
Myself and the FoY team look forward to hearing from you, thanks for reading!
Other available positions
We're always in need of people to:
- Draw sketches of locations and scenes for help with the design of the game
- Sprite artists and animators
Feel free to get in touch via email (see above) with some samples, please.
Thanks for reading, folks of The Raven
Please note: The website is somewhat out of date. We hope to fix it up soon (though we seriously are focusing mostly on the games development)
regards,
Mark "Mods" Lovegrove