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Senior Writer

SUMMARY
Black Rock Studio is seeking an experienced writer to work closely with our in-house development teams.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
— Work with the Game Director and Design Director to develop a vision for the games storytelling style.
— Prepare and pitch whole story concepts and treatments for main stories, missions, etc.
— Become an integral part of all feature teams to ensure stories suit game design, art style, etc.
— Collaborate with the Cinematic Feature Team to improve and design in-game storytelling features.
— Write original cinematics, dialogue, and in-game text.
— Review and provide feedback on any external writer’s work.
— Acquire, distribute, and act on story feedback given by team members, executives, and external reviewers.
— Safeguard the story through to ship, acting as stakeholder for all creative work relevant to story assets (cinemas, interactive conversations, story-relevant UI, etc).
— Represent the story team’s work to the company at large.
— At times perform duties within the Design Department not necessarily limited to writing, story or narrative based work.

REQUIREMENTS
— Experience writing on at least one shipped story-based game that has received positive reviews for its story and written content.
— Experience working in a multi-disciplined team within a creative field.
— Writing samples demonstrating experience, talent, and interest in:
> General storytelling and pacing
> Dialogue
> Character Development
> Interactive, non-linear storytelling
> Action, sci-fi and similar genres

How to apply:
Please email your resume to jobs@distudios.net

About Disney Interactive
Disney Interactive Studios is the interactive division of the Walt Disney Company. We develop, publish, market and distribute a broad portfolio of multi-platform next-generation video games and interactive entertainment worldwide. Our family of studios includes Fall Line and Avalanche Software in Salt Lake City, and Propaganda Games in Vancouver and of course the Brighton Studio in the UK. Come and upgrade your career with one of the world’s largest entertainment companies.

About Black Rock Studio
Black Rock Studio, formerly known as Climax Racing, was established in early 2000 with the goal of becoming the industry's premier racing studio. The studio now employs more than 100. Using its proprietary render engine and PACE physics libraries, the studio has become experienced at producing triple-A, critically acclaimed racing titles in very competitive development times. Climax Racing was acquired by Disney Interactive Studios in October 2006 and re-named Black Rock Studio in July 2007.