Content creator - 6 month contract

Our Mission

Radical Forge is a Middlesbrough, UK-based developer that has provided co-development services on a range of AAA and indie titles. In 2021, the company created its first original IP, 'Brightpaw', which Rogue Games published on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox One/Series S/X, Google, and iOS. The studio is currently working on the much-anticipated silly, physics-based, sandbox farming game, 'Southfield'.

Since its beginnings in 2017, the company has grown to over 60 incredibly talented, collaborative, and creative individuals. We are the sum of our skills, passion, and, most of all, our people. We firmly believe that treating individuals with genuine respect, understanding, and kindness creates a welcoming culture that allows creativity to thrive and for individuals to join together to create games they are genuinely proud of.

Your Mission

Radical Forge has created a new publishing team to work on our new IP Southfield and we need a talented person to join us and become the point person for all supporting assets for the game’s launch. There may also be some corporate static and video content required. This is a Full Time 6 month contract. 

You would be responsible for:

• Supporting the Community Manager, Influencer Manager and associated PR and creative agencies by ensuring we provide the very best assets from the game for campaign work
• Capturing single and choreographed multiplayer footage of Southfield
• Creating static and video assets on the fly as briefed by marketing, community or external agencies or media (using Adobe Suite of tools)
• Creating significant beat trailers for the game as well as peeks into the development of the game for social channels and the community
• Publishing content strategically across channels such as YouTube/Shorts and TikTok
• Ideating and producing new content to increase our engagement on TikTok and YouTube Shorts
• Delivering a strategic and tactical knowledge of the power of video content to engage video game audiences
• Working with development to schedule asset delivery and capture so that disruption to the development process is minimised
• Helping development teams understand the tools and options you need in-game to help create tremendous assets
• Cataloguing and recording all assets from archived WIP material to daily rushes, screenshots or drops
• Getting to know the game intimately to be able to generate material that is authentic, and true to the gameplay experience
• Working with video creation agency to ensure they are briefed well, motivated and supplied with the best raw assets we can possibly deliver as a studio
• Working with various other partners, for example musicians, to source the resources and tools needed for the job
• Ideate and create corporate video content to engage with broader audiences

Ideal Applicant 

• Enthusiasm for games, maybe an active member of a game community or two or even a content creator
  
• Plays a wide variety of games, solo or with friends
  
• An eye for what makes compelling game assets suited to the context they will be viewed in from store metadata, key art, trailers, banners etc.
  
• Someone who is immersed in the wider world of video content, who gets as engaged with a TikTok from Curry’s as one from Bethesda
  
• Someone who gets unreasonably excited when they see an amazing game trailer (and can work out why it’s exciting!) and probably ‘hero worships’ the great Derek Lieu
  
• Experience in multiplayer game capture would be absolutely amazing and building or automation/systems game capture would also be an advantage
  
• Willing to take part in on the job/or external training to gain new skills and develop existing
  
• Great cultural fit with Radical Forge

Skills Summary

• Skilled in the fundamentals of image manipulation
  
• Experienced at creating game videos and finished trailers (using Adobe tools or similar)
  
• An eye for what makes great gameplay capture and experience at using ‘in engine’ tools to capture where possible
  
• Knowledge of what makes great social content and how that differs across the various existing and emerging platforms
  
• Ability to direct other players in multiplayer capture sessions
  
• Ability to brief wonderfully compelling video creative
  
• Experience of uploading store assets to at least one game platform
  
• Good communication skills, the confidence to offer an opinion and be a part of the publishing team
  
• Familiarity with at least one game platform, console or PC
  
• Strong organisational skills and a ‘get it done’ mentality when it comes to tasks
  
• Strong team mentality, at home working with people, understanding the needs of developers, marketing and community/social managers
  
• A creative thinker, team collaborator, and all- round good egg
  
  

This role can be office based, hybrid, or remote within the UK.

We will require all applicants to have a pre-existing right to work in the UK.

The role will  be a 6-month fixed term contract.

Interested in the job but don't feel you match the criteria? If you feel passionate about this role or joining the Radical Forge team we would still like to hear from you! We value our company culture, and we’re always looking for creative individuals from a variety of backgrounds to join our team!