Narrative Design
Example projects
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine
Contributing Writer
Where the Water Tastes Like Wine, a videogame by Dim Bulb Games, is a bleak American folk tale about travelling, sharing stories, and surviving manifest destiny.
Image courtesy of Dimbulb Games.
Sunless Skies
Writer and Editor
Sunless Skies is a story-led video game of exploration, corruption and jeopardy from Failbetter Games. Queen Victoria has led an exodus from London into space. The player is captain of a spacefaring locomotive; travelling between the stars they behold wonders and battle cosmic abominations
Image courtesy of Failbetter Games.
The Mystery of Kalkomey Isle
Design Consultant and Editor
The Mystery of Kalkomey Isle is a boat education adventure game combining interactive fiction with boating safety lessons. It is currently in production, with an expected launch date of early 2018.
Image courtesy of Kalkomey.
Sunless Sea: Zubmariner
Writer and Editor
Zubmariner is the expansion to Sunless Sea, the nautical roguelike video game by Failbetter Games. It brought a new layer to Sunless Sea, including new ports to explore, and was packed with agonising choices presented in beautiful prose.
Image courtesy of Failbetter Games.
Sunless Sea
Editor and Additional Writing
Sunless Sea is a nautical roguelike video game by Failbetter Games. It is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.
Image courtesy of Failbetter Games.
Fallen London
Writer and Editor
Fallen London is a free, browser-based, literary RPG. In this dark and hilarious Victorian-Gothic underworld, every choice has a consequence – from the style of your hat to the price of your soul.
Image courtesy of Failbetter Games.
Lethophobia
Writer and Designer
Lethophobia is a mystery-horror-adventure built in the StoryNexus engine, exploring the nature of trauma, memories and how you reconcile yourself to a past you cannot change.
Image by Melissa Trender.