Rhianna Pratchett

Rhianna Pratchett
Born (1976-12-30) 30 December 1976
Rowberrow, Somerset, England
Occupation Writer
Nationality British
Genre Video games, fantasy
Notable works Heavenly Sword, Mirror's Edge, Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider
Pratchett's voice
from the BBC programme Front Row, 26 December 2013[1]
Website
rhiannapratchett.com

Rhianna Pratchett (born 30 December 1976) is an English video game writer,[2] narrative designer, and journalist.[3] She has worked on titles such as Tomb Raider (2013) and its follow up, Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015), Heavenly Sword, Overlord, and Mirror's Edge.

Pratchett is the daughter of the fantasy writer Terry Pratchett. In 2012, Pratchett became one of the four founders of Narrativia Limited, the production company which holds exclusive multimedia and merchandising rights to her late father's works.[4]

Career

Rhianna Pratchett studied journalism at the London College of Printing and following graduation began writing for Minx magazine, where her first games reviews were published.[5] She moved to the long running PC Zone magazine as an editorial assistant, staff writer, eventually becoming a section editor. She wrote for many other publications including The Guardian.[6]

Pratchett moved into script writing and narrative design in 2002, with Beyond Divinity, produced by Larian Studios in Belgium.[7] She also wrote a novella to accompany the game. In 2007, her work on Heavenly Sword was nominated for a BAFTA and a year later she won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain 'Best Videogame Script' award for Overlord. Pratchett wrote the comic Tomb Raider: The Beginning with Dark Horse and the Mirror's Edge miniseries with DC Comics, along with several of her own short stories. She has contributed to various books on games narrative including Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing (edited by Wendy Despain) and Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames (edited by Chris Bateman).

She is co-director of Narrativia Limited. 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, and Wee Free Men, as well as several other projects.[8] She has also spoken on BBC Radio 1, Radio 4, 5Live and multiple conferences around the world, including Develop, Animex, GDC and TEDx Rome.[9]

In June 2015, she said that her father's 41st Discworld novel The Shepherd's Crown, 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.[10]

Works

Video games

Comics

Film and television

She has appeared in the documentaries Games Britannia, Critical Path and Charlie Brooker's How Video Games Changed the World.

Achievements

References

  1. ↑ "Rhianna Pratchett". Front Row. 26 December 2013. BBC Radio 4. Retrieved 18 January 2014.
  2. ↑ Gilbert, Ben (27 March 2009). "GDC09: Rhianna Pratchett says games should forget about making people cry". Joystiq. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
  3. ↑ "Rhianna Pratchett interview". Multiplay UK. 16 February 2005. Archived from the original on 16 February 2005. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  4. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/11471323/It-was-like-having-a-full-sized-hobbit-for-a-father.html
  5. ↑ Timmer, John (28 June 2007). "Talking with Rhianna Pratchett, writer and co-story designer of Overlord". Ars Technica. Retrieved 21 July 2012.
  6. ↑ "Rhianna Pratchett's Profile". theguardian.com. The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
  7. ↑ russpitts. "Rhianna's rise: Meet the writer behind Tomb Raider". Polygon.
  8. 1 2 "Terry Pratchett: Sex, death and nature". New Statesman. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 22 November 2012.
  9. ↑ "The Future of the Videogames Writer: Rhianna Pratchett at TEDxTransmedia". YouTube. 21 January 2013. Retrieved 8 August 2014.
  10. ↑ Terry Pratchett's daughter declares The Shepherd's Crown will be the last Discworld novel, The Guardian, 12 June 2015
  11. ↑ "Writers' Guild Awards 2008 – shortlists". WGGB – The Writer's Guild of Great Britain. 30 September 2008. Retrieved 5 May 2009.
  12. ↑ "2016 Writers Guild Awards Winners Announced". Writers Guild of America, West. February 12, 2016.
  13. ↑ "European Women in Games Hall of Fame". womeningamesjobs.com.

External links

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