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Rhianna Pratchett (born 30 December 1976) is an English
video game writer Video game writing is the art and craft of writing scripts and narratives for video games. Similar to screenwriting, it is typically a freelance profession. It includes many differences from writing for film, due to the non-linear and interactiv ...
and journalist. She has worked on ''
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'' (2007), ''
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'' (2007), ''
Mirror's Edge ''Mirror's Edge'' is an action-adventure platform game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2008, and for Microsoft Windows in 2009. Set in a near-future city, the game follows th ...
'' (2008) and ''
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'' (2013) and its follow up, ''
Rise of the Tomb Raider ''Rise of the Tomb Raider'' is a 2015 Action-adventure game, action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Microsoft Studios and Square Enix's Square Enix Europe, European subsidiary. The game is the eleventh main ...
'' (2015), among others. She is the daughter of fantasy writer
Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his ''Discworld'' series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first nov ...
.


Career

Rhianna Pratchett studied journalism at the
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and following graduation began writing for ''
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'' magazine, where her first games reviews were published. She moved to the long running ''
PC Zone ''PC Zone'', founded in 1993, was the first magazine dedicated to games for IBM-compatible personal computers to be published in the United Kingdom. Earlier PC magazines such as ''PC Leisure'', ''PC Format'' and ''PC Plus'' had covered games but ...
'' magazine as an editorial assistant, staff writer, eventually becoming a section editor. She wrote for many other publications including ''
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''. Pratchett moved into script writing and narrative design in 2002, with '' Beyond Divinity'', produced by Larian Studios in Belgium. She also wrote a novella to accompany the game. In 2007, her work on ''
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'' was nominated for a BAFTA and a year later she won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain 'Best Videogame Script' award for ''
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''. Pratchett wrote the comic ''Tomb Raider: The Beginning'' with
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and the ''Mirror's Edge'' miniseries with
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, along with several of her own short stories. She has contributed to various books on games narrative including ''Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing'' and ''Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames''. Since 2012, she has been co-director of Narrativia Limited, a production company which holds exclusive multimedia and merchandising rights to her father
Terry Pratchett Sir Terence David John Pratchett (28 April 1948 – 12 March 2015) was an English humourist, satirist, and author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his ''Discworld'' series of 41 novels. Pratchett's first nov ...
's works following his death. In 2012 and 2013, Narrativia announced that it would be working on three television projects based on Pratchett's father's works: '' The Watch'', ''
Good Omens ''Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch'' is a 1990 novel written as a collaboration between the English authors Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. The book is a comedy about the birth of the son of Satan and the c ...
'', and ''
Wee Free Men ''The Wee Free Men'' is a 2003 comic fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett, which takes place in his Discworld setting. It is labelled a "Story of Discworld" to indicate its status as children's or young adult fiction, unlike most of ...
'', as well as several other projects; Pratchett was reported as co-writer of ''The Watch'' but in 2019 she announced she had not been involved in the project "for many years". In a deal announced in April 2020, multiple ''Discworld'' novels are to be adapted for television by Narrativia, Motive Pictures and
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. She has also spoken on
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Radio 1, Radio 4, 5Live and multiple conferences around the world, including Develop, Animex, GDC and TEDx Transmedia. In June 2015, she said that her father's 41st Discworld novel ''
The Shepherd's Crown ''The Shepherd's Crown'' is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett before his death in March 2015. It is the 41st novel in the ''Discworld'' series, and the fifth based on the character Tiffany Aching. It was published i ...
'', to be published posthumously later that year, would mark the end of the series, and that no further novels or books of unfinished work would be authorised for publication.Terry Pratchett's daughter declares The Shepherd's Crown will be the last Discworld novel
The Guardian, 12 June 2015


Works


Video games

* '' Beyond Divinity'' (story editor) –
Larian Studios Larian Studios is a Belgian video game developer and publisher founded in 1996 by Swen Vincke. It focuses on developing role-playing video games and has previously worked on educational games and a number of casino games. It is best known for dev ...
(2004) * '' Stronghold Legends'' (writer) –
Firefly Studios Firefly Studios Limited (also stylized as FireFly Studios) is a British video game developer based in London. Formed in August 1999 by Simon Bradbury, David Lester, and Eric Ouellette, the company focuses on historic real-time strategy games for ...
/ 2K (2006) * ''
Heavenly Sword ''Heavenly Sword'' is a 2007 action-adventure hack and slash video game developed by Ninja Theory and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3. Gameplay The game is an action-adventure title with heavy hack and slash game ...
'' (co-writer/story) –
Ninja Theory Ninja Theory Limited is a first-party British video game development studio based in Cambridge, England. Notable games it has developed include '' Kung Fu Chaos'', ''Heavenly Sword'', '' Enslaved: Odyssey to the West'', '' DmC: Devil May Cry ...
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(2007) * ''
Overlord An overlord in the English feudal system was a lord of a manor who had subinfeudated a particular manor, estate or fee, to a tenant. The tenant thenceforth owed to the overlord one of a variety of services, usually military service or serje ...
'' (writer/audio co-director) –
Triumph Studios Triumph Studios is a Dutch video game developer based in Delft, Netherlands, founded in 1997. The studio is known for their ''Age of Wonders'' and ''Overlord'' series and has developed several games for the PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. The c ...
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Codemasters The Codemasters Software Company Limited (trade name: Codemasters) is a British video game developer based in Southam, England, which is a subsidiary of American corporation Electronic Arts. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in Octo ...
(2007) ** '' Overlord: Raising Hell'' – expansion pack (2008) * '' Viking: Battle for Asgard'' (writer) –
The Creative Assembly The Creative Assembly Limited (trade name: Creative Assembly) is a British video game developer based in Horsham, founded in 1987 by Tim Ansell. In its early years, the company worked on porting games to MS-DOS from Amiga and ZX Spectrum plat ...
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(2008) * ''
Mirror's Edge ''Mirror's Edge'' is an action-adventure platform game developed by DICE and published by Electronic Arts. It was released for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in 2008, and for Microsoft Windows in 2009. Set in a near-future city, the game follows th ...
'' (writer) –
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/ EA (2008) * ''
Prince of Persia ''Prince of Persia'' is a video game franchise created by Jordan Mechner. It is built around a series of action-adventure games focused on various incarnations of the eponymous Prince, set in ancient and medieval Persia. The first two games i ...
'' (additional writer) –
Ubisoft Montreal Ubisoft Divertissements Inc., doing business as Ubisoft Montreal, is a Canadian video game developer and a studio of Ubisoft based in Montreal. The studio was founded in April 1997 as part of Ubisoft's growth into worldwide markets, with sub ...
(2008) * '' Overlord: Minions'' (writer) –
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Codemasters The Codemasters Software Company Limited (trade name: Codemasters) is a British video game developer based in Southam, England, which is a subsidiary of American corporation Electronic Arts. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in Octo ...
(2009) * '' Overlord: Dark Legend'' (writer/voice director) –
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Codemasters The Codemasters Software Company Limited (trade name: Codemasters) is a British video game developer based in Southam, England, which is a subsidiary of American corporation Electronic Arts. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in Octo ...
(2009) * ''
Overlord II ''Overlord II'' is a 2009 action role-playing game and sequel to the 2007 video game '' Overlord''. It was developed by Triumph Studios and published by Codemasters for Linux, Microsoft Windows, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3. All versions were r ...
'' (writer/voice director) –
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Codemasters The Codemasters Software Company Limited (trade name: Codemasters) is a British video game developer based in Southam, England, which is a subsidiary of American corporation Electronic Arts. Founded by brothers Richard and David Darling in Octo ...
(2009) * '' Risen'' (co-writer of English localization) –
Piranha Bytes Piranha Bytes GmbH is a German video game developer based in Essen. Founded in 1997, it is best known for their ''Gothic'' and '' Risen'' series of role-playing video games. The studio is a subsidiary of THQ Nordic and, as of August 2021, empl ...
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Deep Silver Deep Silver is an Austrian video game publisher and a division of Plaion. Eugenio Vitale serves as the director of games development for Deep Silver. History Deep Silver was announced in November 2002, with their first release to be '' Anarc ...
(2009) * '' CSI: Fatal Conspiracy'' (writer) – Telltale/
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(2010) * ''
BioShock Infinite ''BioShock Infinite'' is a first-person shooter video game developed by Irrational Games and published by 2K Games. The third installment in the ''BioShock'' series, ''Infinite'' was released worldwide for the Windows, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, ...
'' and '' BioShock Infinite: Burial at Sea'' (additional writer) –
Irrational Games Irrational Games (known as 2K Boston between 2007 and 2009) was an American video game developer founded in 1997 by three former employees of Looking Glass Studios: Ken Levine, Jonathan Chey, and Robert Fermier. Take-Two Interactive acquired t ...
/ 2K (2013) * ''
Tomb Raider ''Tomb Raider'', also known as ''Lara Croft: Tomb Raider'' from 2001 to 2008, is a media franchise that originated with an action-adventure video game series created by British gaming company Core Design. Formerly owned by Eidos Interactive, th ...
'' (lead writer) –
Crystal Dynamics Crystal Dynamics, Inc. is an American video game developer based in San Mateo, California and part of Embracer Group. The studio developed the '' Gex'', ''Legacy of Kain'', and ''Tomb Raider'' series. Founded in 1992 by Madeline Canepa, Judy L ...
/SE (2013) * ''Beat Buddy: Tale of the Guardians'' (writer) – Threaks (2013) * ''
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'' (story and cinematics) –
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(2014) * '' Rival Kingdoms'' (story and characters) (2015) * ''
Rise of the Tomb Raider ''Rise of the Tomb Raider'' is a 2015 Action-adventure game, action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Microsoft Studios and Square Enix's Square Enix Europe, European subsidiary. The game is the eleventh main ...
'' (lead writer) – Crystal Dynamics/SE (2015) * '' Overlord: Fellowship of Evil'' (writer) – Codemasters (2015) * '' Dance of Death: Du Lac & Fey'' (story consultant) – Salix Games (2019) * '' Lost Words: Beyond the Page'' (writer) – Sketchbook Games (2019) * ''
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'' (writer) –
Bossa Studios Bossa Studios Limited is a British video game developer based in London. It is known for its comedic, physics-based games ''Surgeon Simulator'' and '' I Am Bread''. History Bossa was founded in October 2010 by Henrique Olifiers (gamer-in-c ...
(2020)


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* ''Crystal of Storms (
Fighting Fantasy ''Fighting Fantasy'' is a series of single-player role-playing gamebooks created by Steve Jackson and Ian Livingstone. The first volume in the series was published in paperback by Puffin in 1982. The series distinguished itself by mixing Choos ...
)'' – published by Scholastic (2020)


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* ''Bardsung'' (lead writer and narrative designer) – Steamforged Games (in development)


Comics

* ''Mirror's Edge'' #1 to #6 – published by
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(2008) * ''Tomb Raider: The Beginning'' – published by
Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, Oregon comic book shops known ...
(2013) * ''Legends of
Red Sonja Red Sonja is a fictional sword and sorcery comic-book superheroine created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Barry Windsor-Smith for Marvel Comics in 1973, partially inspired by Robert E. Howard's character Red Sonya of Rogatino. Marvel Comics ...
'' #3 – published by
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(2014) * ''Tomb Raider'' #7 to #18 – published by
Dark Horse Comics Dark Horse Comics is an American comic book, graphic novel, and manga publisher founded in Milwaukie, Oregon by Mike Richardson in 1986. The company was created using funds earned from Richardson's chain of Portland, Oregon comic book shops known ...
(2014–2015)


Film and television

Pratchett has appeared in the documentaries ''Games Britannia'', ''Critical Path'' and
Charlie Brooker Charlton Brooker (born 3 March 1971) is an English television presenter, writer, producer and satirist. He is the creator and co-showrunner of the sci-fi drama anthology series ''Black Mirror'', and has written for comedy series such as ''Bras ...
's ''How Video Games Changed the World''.


Achievements

* ''
Rise of the Tomb Raider ''Rise of the Tomb Raider'' is a 2015 Action-adventure game, action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Microsoft Studios and Square Enix's Square Enix Europe, European subsidiary. The game is the eleventh main ...
'' (2015) – Won Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing at 68th Writers Guild of America Awards 2016. Won Outstanding Achievement in Character for Lara Croft at 19th Annual D.I.C.E. Awards 2016 * '' Risen'' (2009) – co-nominated for a WGGB award 2010. * Won the European Women in Games Hall of Fame Award in 2013.


References


External links

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