Rhianna Pratchett

Rhianna Pratchett ( born December 30, 1976 in Rowberrow in Somerset, England) is a freelance dialogue and scriptwriter for computer games, as well as former games journalist. She is the daughter of British fantasy author Terry Pratchett.

Biography

Rhianna Pratchett was born on December 30, 1976 in the small village Rowberrow in the county of Somerset, England. She is the daughter of British fantasy author Terry Pratchett and his wife Lyn. As a six year old she came about her father for computer games, beginning with the title for the Sinclair ZX81 Mazog. After a finished university studying journalism, she worked from 1998 initially as a game tester for some editions of the British women's magazine Minx, later, finally, as an editor for the UK gaming magazine PC Zone. She left the editor after a few years, but remained as a freelance journalist in addition to PC Zone for the newspapers The Guardian and The Sunday Times operate.

In 2002, she actively increased parallel to its free journalistic work as a clerk in the games industry a. Your focus have since the creation of dialogs and complete action plans. Her first major contracts was one of his participation in the action role-playing game Beyond Divinity of the Belgian developer Larian Studios. As a story designer, she participated in the design of action and dialogue, and wrote an accompanying novella entitled The Child of Chaos, which was included with the game. In 2007, she created together with Tameem Antoniadis and Andy Serkis, the action concept for Sony's action-adventure game Heavenly Sword, for which they in each case a nomination at the BAFTA Video Game Awards 2007 in the category " plot and characters " and the British Writers' Guild Awards 2008 the category " Best computer game - script" received. For the Dutch developer Triumph Studios she conceived the plan of action of but humorous action adventure Overlord, for which it was in 2008 by the British Writers' Guild Award in the category "Best Video Game Script " award ( in direct competition with their work on Heavenly Sword ).

Also in 2008, the critically acclaimed action-adventure Mirror's Edge, for which she had worked out the action on behalf of the Swedish studio DICE appeared. In parallel, she also wrote the story of a six-part comic book mini-series published by DC Comics from late 2008 to early 2009. This was followed in 2009 working on three other Overlord titles, as well as with James Leach and Andrew S. Walsh translation work for the German role -playing game Risen, for which she was nominated in 2010 one more time for the Writer's Guild Award for the year. July 12, 2012 it was announced that Rhianna Pratchett has been commissioned by developer Crystal Dynamics as the main writer for the plot of the series Tomb Raider reboot. On November 1, 2013, it announced via Twitter that she her father's Small free men working on a film adaptation of the Discworld novel.

Works

Computer Games (selection)

• Beyond Divinity (2004)
• Stronghold Legends (2006)
• Heavenly Sword (2007)
• Overlord (2008)
• Viking: Battle for Asgard (2008)
• Mirror's Edge ( 2008)
• Prince of Persia (2008)
• Overlord II (2009)
• Overlord Minion (2009)
• Overlord: Dark Legend (2009)
• Risen (2009, as a dialogue writer )
• Divinity 2: Ego Draconis (2009)
• CSI: Fatal Conspiracy (2010)
• Tomb Raider (2013 )