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Estimated duration
~4h
Deadline
Not specified
Location
Remote only
USD
Kal's Valley is a small, gentle walking game in a web browser: you help a valley of neighbours get their solar drones flying again. It has about 720 lines of dialogue (around 8,000 words) across 17 characters.
We want one careful reader to go through every line on a review web page we've built and tell us which lines sound stiff, generic, written rather than spoken, out of character, or too much like another character. For those, mark "flag" with a short reason, or "suggest" and write the line the way you'd have it, keeping that character's voice.
The page groups lines by character, shows each conversation together with who's speaking to whom, and has a short note on each character (who they are, how they talk). You mark each line fine / flag / suggest. Your answers save as you go, so you can do it in several sittings.
Things that are on purpose (please don't flag): all game text is lowercase; the valley is vegetarian; words from other languages (bà nội, peddatata, odi, teta, abuela...) are deliberate.
At the end you fill in three short notes: which characters sound too alike, the three biggest problems with the writing, and anything else.
We care about honest, specific notes far more than speed. A line you flag with a clear reason is worth more than ten lines marked fine.
Writing sample (in your application): rewrite this line so it sounds like a tired gardener actually said it: "the soil remembers every season we have given it."
Every line on the review page answered (all ~720, about 8,000 words; the page shows your count), with a reason on each flag and a rewritten line on each suggestion, and the three overall notes filled in. Then press "done" on the page.
EVIDENCE DETAILS
Text: the line "you covered N lines (W words)" from the page, copied exactly, plus your three biggest problems in a few sentences. Photo: a screenshot of the page's count after pressing done.
Native or near-native English, with a good ear for how people actually talk
Comfortable reading on a laptop or desktop browser
About 4 hours, can be split over a day or two