Bret Allen Email & Phone Number

Warsaw, Pl

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland

I'm currently working for myself as a freelance content and copy writer.

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London, United Kingdom

I worked as a dialogue writer on the mobile title Fantastic Beasts: Cases from the Wizarding World, a hidden object game featuring settings from JK Rowling's Harry Potter series (and wider opus).I worked on several cases and thoroughly enjoyed fleshing out the planned stories, while staying true to the setting, as the text had to adhere perfectly to the brand. Warner Bros. and the Blair Partnership reviewed all text written.

My most recent job was working for Gamesys as a Chat Host on their website, Jackpotjoy. This is one of the nation’s largest online gambling companies and my role is to entertain players while providing accurate customer support and running promotional games.This includes being sensitive to responsible gaming guidelines and customer data privacy, multitasking and being able to communicate in the correct tone of voice. I have also produced promotional copy for the company to use on-site and original games and promotions.I left the company due to redundancies in the remote hosting team.

I was taken on by Hooqt to perform freelance writing in support of the lead designer. They needed me to flesh out the backgrounds of the world and characters and write a series of quests and dialogue messages, from main plot to side quests.I’m hugely proud of this work, which adds a social platform game to my roster. It hasn’t been easy to find the time but the work has been interesting and challenging. The game is based on the typical model for web-based games; collecting resources, building defences, defeating monsters and so on.The Little Vikings are, as you can imagine, a clan of Vikings who inhabit a slightly cuter, nicer version of our world- there’s a cartoon, casual vibe to the game, as opposed to pillage and slaughter. The player initially has Olaf or Inga, with more unlocked via the in-game shop.I was supporting the designer, David, by writing quests, background plot, dialogues, item descriptions, achievements and so on. The game needed a lot of quests, given to the player by the Gods. For example, Thor gets cursed by Loki and needs the player to defeat some of Loki’s monsters to try to break the curse. You talk to Thor, get the job, then go hunting for monster Rats and Goblins and so on. David and I had to come up with these quests and write dialogue boxes for them. For example: “Please help! My treacherous brother Loki put a curse on me! I think that he’s connected to the monsters. Defeat some and it may weaken the curse!”In addition to that, I was writing dialogues that the player sees if they click Gods or Vikings, changing at various points in the game. These are a bit more free-form, from jokes “When you click me, it tickles!” to game advice “Build walls around your settlement to keep monsters out!” to character building “My father was a village leader so I’m used to taking orders. One day I’d like to give orders too!”

I have written for a computer game (The Sleeping Palace).This is a hidden object game by Casual Arts, who had a basic setting and asked me to flesh it out and fully develop the story.I brought in a big twist and created background information for all of the characters. I'm credited with additional story content but also helped them come up with a few gameplay objects/elements and their histories.