Supermassive Games is a BAFTA-award winning, cinematic horror games studio, best known for Until Dawn. My experience across various titles so far includes:

Working closely with Creative Directors and Game Directors to build the creative vision for games from the ground up — including world/lore, themes, and character arcs.

• Writing and Editing scripts for various titles — both solo and in workshops, with external and internal writers.

• Working with designers and artists to create levels that achieve our gameplay, atmosphere, and narrative goals.

• Helping build branching game structures, ensuring even pacing of narrative beats and mechanics.

• Building and presenting pitch decks to Directors. Also assisting Game Director with building decks to be presented to Execs.

Please refer to my CV for further details of my work.

Beasts of Balance is a multi award winning hybrid digital-physical game. Described as “Jenga meets Pokemon”, the game combines light strategy with physical stacking, and has both co-operative and competitive modes. Originally created by Sensible Object, Beasts of Balance has since been acquired by publisher Modern Games.

I worked initially as Sensible Object’s Community Manager, helping to run communications and social media throughout the second successful Kickstarter campaign for the game's expansion. I bridged communication between backers, existing players, and our design team via our social media channels, support emails, Kickstarter updates, email newsletters, website blog posts, and in-person events.

Aside from writing for the Beasts of Balance community, I also named and wrote a large amount of flavour text for the various discoverable animals in the game, making sure it was consistent with the quirky, fun style that had been created previously whilst also seeding light pieces of lore around the Beasts’ world.

When in Rome is the world’s first Alexa-powered board game - “a travel trivia game powered by Alexa, where real people ask the questions”. In this game, we worked with 20 people from around the world to write and record questions about their local cities. Aside from researching, writing and editing questions, I also wrote and edited the majority of the “host” dialogue: i.e. dialogue spoken by Alexa.

Writing for a smart speaker to make player interactions smooth, intuitive, and engaging was a challenging but fascinating experience. Leaning into the grain of the smart speaker’s limitations, and learning how to work with them was crucial.

I have written about how to write for voice based on my experience here, and also given a talk which can be watched here.

Word Mine was an award winning daily anagram game designed for smart speakers. In the game, the player descends into a fantastical mine with their trusty robot canary “Alexa” to find alphabet letters. With each level they must unscramble the letters to form a word, with the words getting trickier every turn.

I worked as the Narrative Designer and Writer on this game. As part of this, I helped explore different settings we could situate the game in based on its mechanics, and how to evoke them given the audio-only experience. A mine – with a fantastical and futuristic spin, and less grim working conditions – was what we eventually went with.

Writing characters to be ‘voiced’ by a smart speaker was a challenge, but it taught me a lot about writing for voice, as well as anticipating and designing around player interactions that have a broad potential range.

I have written about how to write for voice based on my experience here, and also given a talk which can be watched here.