NARRATIVE DESIGNER FOR GAMES & INTERACTIVE WORLDS
I specialise in:
cinematic action writing
expert dialogue & character voice
branching narrative systems
adventure & mission design
environmental storytelling
tightening mechanics to support story
I help developers turn good concepts into playable, reactive narrative experiences.
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$30/hr
$40 — dialogue polish pass (4-10pgs)
$80 — branching conversation
$120 — mission/adventure design
$180 — narrative or systems consult
I design action-driven narrative systems where story, mechanics, and player choice work as one.
Underpower is a mod rulebook I wrote based on the Marvel ’90s CCG: Overpower. In around 1995 we only had a few cards and no rulebook. So we made up a game using the cards we had. I wrote the rulebook based on this experience.
Also coming to this space is The Machinist Port: V1, where the user is invited to play with a fake terminal. The user inputs commands in code with the help of a side-bar where as they progress, older commands fade, to be replaced by more sophisticated codes as the terminal evolves what it is able to create for the user, based on their typed code-words.
The Infected Towns is a world I’m creating, based on some game writing tasks – original works of mine prepared for a Lovecraftian-themed indie video game project – the works were not bought, so I am recycling them into an original world.
Divine Madness Bubble: (section 1: walking) was sold for roughly USD150, based on research into the cuisine, architecture, boats, geography and mythology of the Kerala Backwaters region in India.
A level design sample – I was lead level designer, working with the lead writer, and lead designer.
Falling Quietly is my fictionpress profile, where I have left about fifty works; a combination of poetry, songwriting attempts and flash fiction. My page is here.