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
-
Design documentation, writing, and outlining
-
Research relevant topics (if needed).
-
One major rewrite and 2-3 minor revisions. Further revision requests may require the same rate or slightly lesser rate.
-
Ghost-writing may include an additional fee to compensate for lack of credit.
CONSULTATION
Concept Review, Feedback and Advice, Sensitivity Reading
-
Provide insights and recommendations
-
Soundboarding
-
Pre- or post-mortems
-
Review of a project
COPYWRITING AND PROOFREADING
Prose and audio
-
Check for plot errors, preserving tone and voice, and proper formatting.
-
Clean up surface errors and improving sentence structure, grammar, punctuation, and word choice.
-
Reword awkward phrasing and deleting unnecessary text.
-
Use track changes (if possible).
-
Provide feedback and answering questions.
-
Listen for discrepancies between the audio and text.
-
Check for accuracy of pronunciations.
-
For text, $0.02-0.04/word (USD), depending on complexity of request.
-
For audio, agreed upon fee.
QUALITY ASSURANCE TESTING
Game testing
-
Test build stability and game playability.
-
Report bugs and track fixes.
-
Provide repro steps and screenshots (if necessary).
-
Provide feedback and answering questions.
-
Agreed upon fee.
RESEARCH ASSISTANCE
Academic work, literary review, bibliography, data collection
-
Research of topics, compilation of citations and summaries, and collection of data or assets.
-
Will also look for game assets, according to commercial and modification needs.
-
Agreed upon fee.