[Plarium]
In 2025, I collaborated with the Plarium Raid: Shadow Legends team as a contractor, focusing on world-building, narrative design, editorial feedback, and game writing.
Gril
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Lessons hard-learned from parenthood.
I am five years in now, and I realise I have written nothing on being a parent. Every year I wanted to, every month. But the years went by and I found myself changing nappies and working at midnight and sleeping very little and it always felt there were More Important things to be doing…
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Babysteps in Belief-Building
“The richness an enshrined contradiction gives to a belief system and world cannot be understated.”
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Game Writer Applications:Samples / Portfolio
My blog on getting a job in game-writing was too long so I split it up. The main article is here. Okay, this is where the bullshitting ends. Everything above was about getting your foot in the door, without having to prove anything. But your samples are what you’ll need to get the actual interview
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Tides of Tomorrow
An asynchronous multiplayer adventure set in Elynd, a post-Great Flood world rife with plastic pollution. I was a narrative designer and writer, working mostly in Unreal Engine 5.
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Min/Max
MIN/MAX is a narrative RPG featuring MIN LIU, seeking her mother, and MAX FONTAINE, a grifter navigating conflicts, set in a pixel art cyberpunk city, utilizing Ink for branching dialogue.
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Game Writer Applications: Covering Letters
The core of a covering letter is about you saying you have the skills on the job description and backing them with evidence from the work you have done. It is an argument every step of the way, constructed piece-by-piece. You can disguise it with eloquence, but it needs to be convincing and backed up.
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Game Writer Applications: CV
A short blog about writing your CV for games narratives.
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Game Writer Applications: Basics
Game narrative is insanely competitive which means microeconomics kick in. There’s an excess supply relative to demand, which pushes the price paid for an average service wayyy down. So do you really want to do this?
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My father drives a car.
In England, my father drives a car. It is black and shiny and slick and unscratched. Throughout it, gadgets warm seats, gauge performance, mollify and coddle. Tech-fairies transmit signals through the air, so that his other devices, his extended digital self, integrates with it thoroughly. It purrs as it drives down the road. It fits