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- [Update] Open to Work!Hey, all. I’m open to work again! I’m happy to say, that, following the end of my time with Kwalee, I’m open
- [Update] Gloomhaven Digital Now On Consoles!I’m very excited to say that you can now find Gloomhaven Digital (and the writing work I did for it) on PlayStation,
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- [Portfolio Addition] What Are Story Driven Mobile Games?In this article, I broke down what story-driven mobile games are, why they’re popular, and how to make them, all for Kwalee‘s blog. You
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- [Portfolio Addition] Games Writing Talk in Guildford!Ahead of my narrative design workshop at the 2023 Surrey New Writers Festival, I was approached by guildford.games to talk a little about myself, and the talk
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- [Portfolio Addition] Becoming a Video Game Story WriterI got a lovely opportunity to write for Kwalee‘s blog, all about my time as a video game story writer and narrative
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- [Update] Writing Talk!I’m beyond excited to be able to say that I’ve been invited to 2023’s Surrey New Writers Festival to give an introductory
- [Update] New Job!I’m really excited to be able to say that I started at Kwalee a little while ago, as a Game Story Writer
- [Portfolio Addition] Carni-BallI recently took part in the SGDA‘s Summer Game Jam 2022, and ended up designing the narrative for (and naming) the little
- [Portfolio Addition] Things to Share‘Things to Share’ is a short exploration of a lesser-represented queer experience, which I wrote as my gentle introduction to the Ink
- [Portfolio Addition] Demonsgate‘Demonsgate’ is a text-based Gloomhaven Digital spin-off which I recently submitted a demo of for one of my final creative writing assignments
- [Portfolio Addition] Writing as a Team PlayerThis blog summarises the five biggest things I learnt while writing collaboratively for Gloomhaven Digital, as part of Flaming Fowl Studio’s creative
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- [Portfolio Addition] Christmas All-Stars: A Festival-Themed Gift ListThis article is a listicle where I rounded up my favourite works from over the last three years of my time with
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- [Portfolio Addition] Gloomhaven DigitalI had the pleasure of contracting with Flaming Fowl Studios during my placement year as an Assistant Writer, level builder and QA
- [Portfolio Addition] Game Writing’s No Game: Why Interactive Writing Isn’t SimpleThis article outlines the intricate nature of narrative design in video gaming, and why writing something intended to be interactive in any
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- [Portfolio Addition] Revealing Guildford’s Secret Music SceneThis article discusses Guildford’s historic, influential and thriving music scene for The Stag magazine. I wrote it late last year to submit
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- [Portfolio Addition] Creating Reliable New Year’s Resolutions for WritingThis article explains how to break up big and vague goals like ‘improving my poetry’ or even ‘getting fitter’ into small, clear
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- [Portfolio Addition] Don’t Be Scared to Visit a Hospital During the PandemicThis article focuses on my recent visit to A&E during the pandemic, and how you shouldn’t let the fear of the pandemic
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- [Portfolio Addition] How Good Grades Can Make You DumbThis article is a short opinion article explaining how chasing good grades can actually be harmful to both your leisure and professional
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- [Portfolio Addition] Horror and the Manipulation of the Cinesthetic Subject in ‘A Quiet Place’This essay explores Vivian Sobchack’s theory of the ‘cinesthetic subject’ through the horror film ‘A Quiet Place’. Sobchack herself proposes that cinema
- [Portfolio Addition] Sir Gawain and The Green Knight (Partial Translation)One of my modules on my univeristy course involved me translating a section from the fourteenth-century Middle English poem ‘Sir Gawain and
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- [Portfolio Addition] An Endless DuskThis short story, one of my university submissions, is set in World War One. It follows a homesick soldier through a magical
- [Portfolio Addition] ‘Sole’This short story is a Soft Science-Fiction piece which follows a woman through the apocalypse. I wrote it between projects at university,
- [Portfolio Addition] ‘One Word’This screenplay, a gritty Dishonoured-esque High Fantasy short, is a slightly edited version of my second creative writing submission from university. It
- [Portfolio Addition] ‘Redcoat.’‘Redcoat.’ is a short story reimagining Red Riding Hood as a gritty urban High Fantasy with comical undertones. Though it was my