Join our team as a Chinese Creative Writer to craft engaging narratives and dialogue for our indie game. The current scope of the project requires writers who are comfortable writing non-linear dialogue via writing tools and software. Command of the Chinese language or any other dialect is appreciated, especially when accompanied by cultural or historical knowledge of the area, to help contextualise the narrative.

Freelancers will work mostly independently but sometimes collaborate on team exercises to help smooth out narrative blocks and transitions, and review other writing and conversations/events in the game. A moderate experience in writing in any format is appreciated, whether it's fiction, non-fiction, web, media, etc. Areas of guidance and expertise needed include political and historical knowledge of various cities and events in 1930s China. Editing will be collabarative.

Project:

Shadows of the Republic

Shadows of the Republic is a Visual Novel CRPG set in the historical and turbulent period of Republican China and World War II. Navigate investigations and conversations, building your identity as you deconstruct the world.

Premise

Following the Northern Expedition, the flag of the Blue Sky White Sun was raised across provinces as warlords fell like dominoes. China was now united once more, at least in name and spirit. The fate of the nation had now fallen into better hands. However, not before a new East Asian Empire rises from the East Horizon, eyeing the fragile confederation of warlords, officers and careerists.

You are Fang. One day, you wake up to find your world upended and thrust into a new matrix of shadows and deceit. Navigate 10 chapters of intrigue, betrayal, espionage and shattering events. Start off as a border customs officer in Beijing, uncovering Japanese smuggling and opium exploitation in northern China, work as a double agent for the Kuomintang and the Wang Jingwei Regime in the devastation of Nanjing, and achieve your final mission in the occupied wastelands of Canton.

Features

Personality Development System

Your personality develops through your choices and actions, and this will affect your narrative options, paths through puzzles and investigations, and social interactions. Keen to lie a lot? You will gain a pathological trait that makes the truth difficult to disclose!

Skillcheck System

You will gain 15 "echoes" or skills that enable you to have unique commentary and perspectives on world affairs and insights into people around you. Some echoes are perk-based and tied to your personality and will not scale, such as the Death ECHO, hearing the ghosts of people long gone advising you.

Explore

The world encourages you to go into rooms and locations and wind back to places to reexamine NPCs, objects, thoughts and insight. Interact with small observations to complete investigations.