In The Press
- My Child Lebensborn review – could you raise a Nazi baby?, The Guardian, July 2018, Game of the Month.
- Introducing the Talespinners, Fairytale Distillery’s Blog, Sept 2016 – a blog entry on what we’re doing for Fairytale Distillery’s game The Exiled.
- The bold new video games pushing the boundaries of storytelling, iNews, Sept 2016 – includes two games we’ve worked on, The Bunker and SOMA
- Making it in Unreal: The Siege and the Sandfox, PCGamesN, Aug 2016 – on the Siege and the Sandfox, a game we’re providing the story for
Awards
- Disco Elysium wins three awards at the 2020 BAFTA Games Awards, including Best Narrative [List of Finalists]
- My Child Lebensborn wins BAFTA Game Beyond Entertainment 2019 [List of Finalists]
- My Child Lebensborn awarded Best Narrative at the Tap Tap awards, 2019
- The Spectrum Retreat shortlisted for Best Writing in a Video Game by the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain, 2019
- My Child Lebensborn shortlisted for Best Storyline at the Mobile Games Awards 2018 [List of Finalists]
- Talespinners shortlisted for Best Creative Outsourcer (Visual + Development) at the Develop Awards 2018 [List of Finalists]
- The Bunker shortlisted for the BAFTA Cymru 2017 [Press Release]
- The Bunker shortlisted for Best Performance and, importantly, Best Writing at the Develop Awards 2017 [List of Finalists]
Articles
- Storytelling in VR. [Ian, August 2018]
- Crossing the Threshold – Revisited. [Ian, July 2018]
- Be Lazy! Running a Games Team. [Ian, Jan 2018]
- Getting Into Games Writing. [Ian, June 2017]
- An article on Moment-based Story Design in the Knutepunkt 2017 conference book. [Ian, Feb 2017]
- Mind the Gap – Thoughts about leaving spaces inside your story for your audience to fill up. [Ian, Dec 2016]
- A Quick Look At Worldbuilding – A short article on our approach to building a large scale world for multiple players. [Ian, Oct 2016]
- Crossing The Threshold – Dragging your players kicking and screaming into your gameworld. [Ian, Mar 2016]
- War Stories: Memorable Moments – Moment-based design for player-centric stories. [Ian, Feb 2016]
- Writing Backwards: Stunt to Story – Using gameplay restrictions as the foundation for story. [Ian, Jun 2015]
- Procedural Narrative: The Experience Director – Programmatic systems for shaping the player’s experience. [Ian, Dec 2013]
- Procedural Narrative: Stress Levels – Shaping the player’s experience by measuring it. [Ian, Dec 2013]
- Procedural Narrative: Better Templates – also known as ‘I hate fetch quests’. [Ian, Dec 2013]
Talks
- Panel on Speaking Engagements and Marketing Yourself for Indie Games Business [Michelle, 2020]
- Making Horror: Hacking the Player’s Brain for Narrascope 2019 at MIT. [Ian, 2019]
- Embracing the Co-op Studio – from GDC. [Ian, 2019]
- Lessons From LARP – from AdventureX. [Ian, 2015]
- A Brief Overview Of A Triple A Game Engine – from Unified.Diff. [Ian, 2012]
Interviews
- Adventure Games Podcast, talking about Wordplay and working with Talespinners. [Chris, 2019]
- Deep Dive Cast, talking about writing and design for games, larp, roleplaying and other things. [Ian, 2018]
- Digital Jam Sessions Podcast on VR, tech, and immersive worlds. [Ian, 2018]
- Extra Credits – Games You Might Not Have Tried, livestream and Q&A. [Ian, 2018]
- An interview with Articy:Draft, from Nevigo at GamesCom 2017. [Giles & Ian, 2017]
- Script Lock Podcast #18. [Ian, 2016]
- On Joystiq’s Halloween Livestream. [Ian, 2015]
- GameTrailers Interview, E3 [Ian, 2015]
- PlayStation Livestream, E3 [Ian, 2015]
- Joystiq Interview, GDC [Ian, 2014]
- Writing Fallen Soldiers, [Ian, 2012]
- Writing Empire, [Ian, 2012]
