Services
Base Rates
Negotiable, particularly for indie
- $ 35USD/Hour
- $ 0.05/0.08USD/Word for writing and 0.02-0.05USD/Word for editing, depending on complexity of request
- Work that requires research (i.e: work on an existing IP) may cost a research fee.
Narrative Design and Writing
Writing, Ghost-writing, Plot Outlines, Worldbuilding Documents
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Design documentation, writing, and outlining
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Research relevant topics (if needed).
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One major rewrite and 2-3 minor revisions. Further revision requests may require the same rate or slightly lesser rate.
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Ghost-writing may include an additional fee to compensate for lack of credit.
Consultation
Concept Review, Feedback and Advice, Sensitivity Reading
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Provide insights and recommendations
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Soundboarding
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Pre- or post-mortems
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Review of a project
Copyediting and Proofreading
Prose and audio
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Check for plot errors, preserving tone and voice, and proper formatting.
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Clean up surface errors and improving sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and word choice.
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Reword awkward phrasing and deleting unnecessary text.
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Use track changes (if possible).
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Provide feedback and answering questions.
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Listen for discrepancies between the audio and text.
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Check for accuracy of pronunciations.
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For text, $0.02-0.04/word (USD), depending on complexity of request.
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For audio, agreed upon fee.
Quality Assurance Testing
Game testing
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Test build stability and game playability.
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Report bugs and track fixes.
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Provide repro steps and screenshots (if necessary).
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Provide feedback and answering questions.
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Agreed upon fee.
Research Assistance
Academic work, literary review, bibliography, data collection
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Research of topics, compilation of citations and summaries, and collection of data or assets.
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Will also look for game assets, according to commercial and modification needs.
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Agreed upon fee.