Welcome Writers!
If you’re reading this, it’s safe to assume that you’re a writer looking to contract work with Everybody Games. This page is designed to help you increase your odds of successfully attracting our attention and building a business relationship with us. It also serves to give you a bit of information about what we’re looking for and how we operate as a business.
Submitting a Work Sample
When you reach out to Everybody Games, make sure to send us a sample of your work in the form of a few samples of your writing. Some guidelines for sending writing samples.
Please use Microsoft Word, pre-development. Don’t show me work that you created for another company and had them polished. It’s more helpful to know what a writing sample from you is going to look like.
Please avoid breaching NDAs. If you were put under NDA for your writing sample, you cannot legally show it to us until the NDA is lifted (usually because the product has been released or your section is publicly available.
Send up to 3 samples of different types of writing. You’ll want to send at least one page (700 words) of creative writing (i.e. a bit of short fiction you created), one page (700 words) of game rules / mechanics, and one page (700 words) of freestyle, IE something of your choice that you think will impress the person reading your work.
Creative writing should not involve IPs that Everybody Games doesn’t own. For example, don’t send us a short story you wrote set in the Star Wars universe.
Game Rules / Mechanics can involve any of the following: Pathfinder (1st or 2nd Edition), Starfinder (1st Edition), or any game system published by Everybody Games.
Contacting Everybody Games
When you’ve got your portfolio together, use our Contact Us page to send us an e-mail. Make sure to include the following information:
Your name. If you go by an alias, a nick name, or are trying out a new name, that’s fine too.
Your writing samples.
A description of any relevant experience that you have. This doesn’t have to be art-based; you can tell us about what sort of tabletop RPGs you’ve played or anything you know about Everybody Games and the kind of work we do.
Rates. Everybody Games has a flat cent-per-word rate for contracted writers. As of 07/2023, it’s $0.05 per word for standard work and $0.10 per word for Kickstarter projects. The rate is subject to change based on work history and company profits, but this is the baseline you should expect when you contact us.
Contracts
Everybody Games does not permit that any work be completed for the company until a contract is signed. We used a standardized contract, and you will receive a blank copy of the contract to review before being given your first assignment and a new copy of the contract included with every assignment you complete for us. Some features of our contract include the following:
You’re given a deadline, typically 30 days from the date of issue but this can be negotiated based on the scale of the assignment.
Everybody Games becomes the owner of the work and its rights once you finish, but we allow you to use the work for self-promotional purposes like posting it on your social media page.
Artists retain the right to sell prints of work they create for Everybody Games without needing to pay Everybody Games royalties, provided that our logo appears reasonably somewhere on the print and that the sale isn’t against our company values (for example, selling prints at a hate group’s convention).
Artists do not have the right to license art created for Everybody Games for other purposes, except as spelled out within the contract. Permissions are very limited and mostly include non-commercial uses of the work.
Disqualification
We don’t work with creators who check any of the following boxes.
You don’t have a SFW online present. Everybody Games doesn’t care who you decide to work for or what you decide to create for anyone other than us, but we won’t work with you if you don’t have a SFW online presence that we can refer to for promotional purposes.
Your words or actions online or in-person actively promote discrimination, harassment, or hate against marginalized groups, including (but not limited to): people of color, LGBTQ+ people, neurodivergent people, and disabled people / people with disabilities. This includes refusing to illustrate PG-13 content featuring people in such groups.