Games
Unannounced Project at Off-Leash Interactive
I currently work at Off-Leash Interactive as Narrative Lead on an unannounced game.
You can find out more about Off-Leash here.
Star Wars Outlaws at Massive Entertainment
A Ubisoft open-world game where you play Kay Vess, and her companion Nix, as they fight, steal, and outwit their way through the galaxy’s crime syndicates. I worked on this project as a Senior Narrative Systems Designer and owned many features including the Reputation system, Intel, Eavesdropping conversations and underworld Side Stories.
Kotaku review.
Rolling Stone review.
God is a Geek review.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora at Massive Entertainment
Ubisoft’s first-person, action-adventure game set in the open world part of the Western Frontier of Pandora. I worked on this project for many years as a Narrative Designer, then as a Senior/Lead Narrative Designer creating the realization tools and systems for the quest designers and writers.
The Fifth Season
at Green Ronin
The Fifth Season is a TTRPG based on the award winning novels by N.K. Jemisin. The crowdfunding campaign launched in January 2023 and was funded in just 6 hours! I wrote an adventure scenario for the Core Rulebook called Miroq Festival.
Polygon interview with Green Ronin President Chris Pramas and co-developer Tanya DePass.
What Never Was
as a contributor.
What Never Was is a short narrative, adventure-puzzle game designed by the talented Acke Hallgren. I contributed to the project by Writing Additional Dialogue and helped Acke with the incredibly well received first installment of the series.
You can play the first episode for free on Steam.
The Descendant
at Gaming Corps
The Descendant is an episodic-adventure game with branching narrative. I joined the project as a Senior Designer after the release of Episode 2 and helped their wonderful team strengthen the narrative design on Episodes 3-5.
Download the first episode for free on Steam.
The Monster in Me
as a personal project.
The Monster in Me is a short piece of interactive fiction that explores moral choices in a post-apocalyptic world. The game was a personal project initially created for Ludum Dare 33.
The game is available for free on itch.io.
Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey
at Kobojo
Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey is a beautiful 2D, JRPG made in collaboration with Final Fantasy veterans Kazushige Nojima, Hitoshi Sakimoto and Hideo Minaba. It was created for PS4, PsVita, iPad and mobile. I worked as a Game Designer for the entirety of the project, creating the initial design, story, characters and world.
For more information about the game please visit the official website.
Multiple Games
at Kobojo
I worked as a Game Designer on a variety of games for Facebook and Mobile including Goobox, Questionary and Tiki Blocks.
Other Work
Guest Lecturing
I have been guest lecturing on game courses for the last 10 years. I have a narrative design worksop with The Game Assembly every year. I have previously given lectures at Glasgow Caledonian University, Abertay University Dundee, London Southbank University and several others.
Please contact me via the website form or on LinkedIn if you would like me to do a guest lecture.
GENIE for Ubisoft’s Snowdrop Engine.
I helped design and develop a new narrative tool for Ubisoft’s in-house Snowdrop Engine. It allows narrative designers to write and design conversations inside the engine and generate animation sequences directly from their scripts.
GENIE was made for Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and has been used in Star Wars Outlaws as well as many upcoming Ubisoft games.
GEM as part of Game Habitat.
GEM is an initiative created to empower female indenitfying game developers in Southern Sweden to help the industry become a more equal and inclusive place.
GEM is part of the Game Habitat group.
IGDA Scotland Board Member
I was an elected board member for IGDA Scotland (now the Scottish Game Developers Association) and helped support the amazing Scottish game dev community between 2014-2016.