Rhianna Pratchett

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Rhianna Pratchett (born December 30, 1976 in Rowberrow in Somerset , England) is a freelance dialog and screenplay writer for computer games and a former game journalist . She is the daughter of British fantasy author Terry Pratchett .

biography

Rhianna Pratchett was born on December 30, 1976 in the small village of Rowberrow, Somerset, England. She is the daughter of British fantasy author Terry Pratchett and his wife Lyn. As a six-year-old she got into computer games through her father, starting with the title Mazogs for the Sinclair ZX81 . After completing a university degree in journalism, she first worked as a game tester for several issues of the British women's magazine Minx from 1998, and later as an editor for the British game magazine PC Zone . She left the editorial team after a few years, but continued to work as a freelance journalist in addition to PC Zone for the newspapers The Guardian and The Sunday Times .

In 2002, parallel to her freelance journalistic work as a writer, she actively entered the games industry. Since then, her focus has been the creation of dialogues and complete action plans. Her first major commissions included working on the action role-playing game Beyond Divinity by the Belgian developer Larian Studios . As a story designer, she helped design the plot and dialogues, and wrote a companion novel called Child of The Chaos that came with the game. In 2007, together with Tameem Antoniadis and Andy Serkis , she created the plot concept for Sony's action-adventure Heavenly Sword , for which she was nominated at the BAFTA Video Games Awards 2007 in the category "Plot and Characters" and the British Writers' Guild Awards 2008 in in the “Best Computer Game Script” category. For the Dutch developer Triumph Studios she conceived the plot concept of the humorous action adventure Overlord , for which she received the British Writers' Guild Award in the category "Best Computer Game Screenplay" in 2008 (in direct competition with her work on Heavenly Sword ) .

Also in 2008 was the critically acclaimed action adventure Mirror's Edge , for which she worked on the plot for the Swedish studio DICE . To accompany this, she also wrote the plot of a six-part comic miniseries published by DC Comics from late 2008 to early 2009. This was followed by work on three more Overlord titles in 2009 , as well as translation work with James Leach and Andrew S. Walsh for the German-language role-playing game Risen , for which she was nominated again for the Writer's Guild Award in 2010. On July 12, 2012 it was announced that Rhianna Pratchett was commissioned by developer Crystal Dynamics as the lead author for the plot of the series restart Tomb Raider . On November 1, 2013, she announced on Twitter that she was working on a film adaptation of the Discworld novel Little Free Men from her father.

Works

Computer games (selection)

literature

Advisory literature:

  • Clash: Videogames (2004)

Articles in specialist literature:

  • The Needs of the Audience , In: Chris Bateman (Ed.): Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames (2006).
  • Writing for New IP , In: Wendy Despain (Ed.): Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing (2008).

Others:

  • Child of The Chaos (2004), fantasy novel and companion to Beyond Divinity .
  • The House (2006), short story to accompany the release of the music album Where Evil Lurks: Special Edition by Alex Otterlei .
  • Mirror's Edge (2008–2009), six-part comic mini-series for the computer game of the same name, published by DC Comics . German version published by Panini Verlag .

Awards

  • 2008 Writers' Guild Award (UK) for Best Computer Game Screenplay for Overlord

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jem Alexander: Joystiq interviews Heavenly Sword's Rhianna Pratchett ( English ) In: Joystiq . AOL . July 30, 2007. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 14, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.joystiq.com
  2. ↑ a b Ben Kuchera: Talking with Rhianna Pratchett, writer and co-story designer of Overlord ( English ) In: Ars Technica . Condé Nast . June 28, 2007. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  3. ↑ Matthew Reynolds: Rhianna Pratchett ('Overlord') ( English ) In: Digital Spy . Hearst magazines . June 28, 2009. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  4. ↑ BAFTA (October 1, 2007): 2007 Winners & Nominees ( Memento of the original from March 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Official website. Last accessed on July 14, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bafta.org
  5. ^ A b Ed Fear: Rhianna Pratchett wins Writers' Guild Award ( English ) In: Develop . Intent Media . November 25, 2008. Archived from the original on October 7, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 14, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.develop-online.net
  6. ↑ a b The Writers 'Guild of Great Britain (November 22, 2010): Writers' Guild Award winners ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Last accessed on July 14, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.writersguild.org.uk
  7. ↑ Michael French: Rhianna Pratchett writing Mirror's Edge script for EA DICE ( English ) In: Develop . Intent Media . July 16, 2008. Archived from the original on November 5, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 14, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.develop-online.net
  8. ↑ Seth Robison: Looking at the Mirror's Edge with Rhianna Pratchett ( English ) In: newsarama.com . TechMediaNetwork . January 7, 2009. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  9. ↑ Codemasters : Minions Rejoice! Award-Nominated Author Rhianna Pratchett to Return for New Overlord Titles ( English ) In: Press release . IGN . October 16, 2008. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  10. ^ The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (October 10, 2010): Guild Awards 2010 - shortlists announced ( Memento of March 11, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). Last accessed on July 14, 2012.
  11. ↑ Stace Harman: Rhianna Pratchett is lead writer for Tomb Raider reboot ( English ) In: vg247.com . July 12, 2012. Retrieved July 14, 2012.
  12. ↑ Announcement on Twitter
  13. ↑ Rhianna Pratchett: Clash: Videogames . TickTock Books, Tunbridge Wells 2008, ISBN 978-1-84696-749-8 .
  14. ^ Rhianna Pratchett: The Needs of the Audience . In: Chris Bateman (Ed.): Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames . Charles River Media (now: Cengage Learning ), Boston ( MA ) 2006, ISBN 978-1-58450-490-0 , pp. 185-200 .
  15. ^ Rhianna Pratchett: Writing for New IP . In: Wendy Despain (Ed.): Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing . AK Peters , Wellesley ( MA ) 2008, ISBN 978-1-56881-416-2 , pp. 147-164 .
  16. ↑ DC Comics : Rhianna Pratchett , Author Profile. Last accessed on July 14, 2012.
  17. ↑ Rhianna Pratchett, Matthew Dow Smith: Mirror's Edge: The Official Comic for the Game . Panini Verlag , Nettetal-Kaldenkirchen 2010, ISBN 978-3-86607-959-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Pratchett, Rhianna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British dialog and screenplay writer for computer games and games journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 30, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Rowberrow , UK