Games Writing

I’ve worked as a narrative designer, writer and story development consultant on award-winning games projects for both indie, AA studios and agencies. Former and current clients include BBC, Cartoon Network, Lego and Roblox. My interactive fiction has been shortlisted for the New Media Writing Prize. You can find – and play! – some of my IF games for free over on Itch.io.

Feel free to drop me a message about games writing or any freelance work via my Contact Form.

Current Projects

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Lead Writer, Narrative & Additional Game Design: Shadows of Doubt – ColePowered Games

Shadows of Doubt is a first-person, open-world detective stealth game set in a fully-simulated neo-noir city, from the makers of Concrete Jungle and publisher Sold Out.

“This is a work of staggering ambition and no small amount of artistry, presenting an evocative, fully-functioning cityscape for you to explore, complete with several intricate systems underpinning your sleuthing… I’m simply staggered.”

Eurogamer

Writer, Nivalis – Ion Lands

Unique, slice-of-life, cyberpunk sim from the makers of Cloudpunk (2020). Grow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing and maybe even find love in Nivalis, the city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds.

Past:

Lead Writer, Narrative Design: Mars 2020 – BBC Taster (2018)

Mars 2020 was a multiplayer, interactive fiction game for four players, set aboard the first voyage to Mars.

Interactive Fiction

The Gallowtown Incident by Stark Holborn

The Gallowtown Incident: an interactive fiction western vignette using Ink

A Case of Trouble by Stark Holborn

A Case of Trouble: five interlocking interactive fiction tales written for inkJam20. Won #3 place overall and #1 in the Narration category.

cover detail from Ten Low by Stark Holborn

Welcome to Factus: a short story/game set on Factus in the Ten Low universe