I am currently working full time at Larian Studios as a Senior Narrative Designer. There I am the feature lead for companion characters and romances. I am the screenwriter for the Dark Urge Origin and work in an associate capacity screenwriting for the other origin characters.
My interactive fiction game: Don’t Wake Me Up is available on Steam and mobile app stores. This cyberpunk game asks: ‘What if video game love interests were sentient? What if they could see the way fan culture responds to them?’
Previously at Paradox Interactive I was a Game Designer on Crusader Kings III. In 2020 I graduated with a BA in English Literature from Oxford University.
My favorite elements in video games are character design, and character-driven narrative, but I also enjoy planning tough-as-nails tactical battles. On Crusader Kings, I have done work in heavy technical scripting for Grand Strategy gameplay, and creating satirical medieval storylines about some incredibly petty despots.
You can call me Beau for short.
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Portfolio
Origin Design and the Dark Urge
Scene portfolio and specification of work on Baldur’s Gate 3.
Don’t Wake Me Up: An Interactive Fiction about dating in video games
Sometimes, true love is a wrong dialogue choice. My solo-developed game exploring why we seek out romance in video games.
An Eye for Optical Theory: 1666 – An homage to the ZX Spectrum
In plague lockdown at his home, Isaac Newton has been planning a series of experiments. Will you help him?
Design Work on Crusader Kings
Examples of feature work completed
Lecture: The Tragic Story of Comedy in Video Games
Captured con talk on the comedy genre in video games.
Adam Moth: Prince of Puzzles
A polished vertical slice C# prototype made in Unity
Artwork and UI
Early 90s-style pixel graphics. Rococo frames. Visual design for Adam Moth.
Writing Samples
What if the Galaxy was run by the Romantic Poets?
Academic work
From interactive narrative discussions to Gothic Horror and Medieval ballads
Newspapers and Journalism
From interviewing Anish Kapoor to editing weekly fashion section spreads
Personal Interests
In my free time I enjoy reviewing films, LARP, writing fanfiction, and dressing like Oscar Wilde on a daily basis.
Some of my favorite games of all time are the Mass Effect Trilogy, Dark Souls, 80 Days, Simon the Sorcerer, Dungeon Master, the Discworld point and click adventure, the Divinity Original Sin series and basically everything made in the Infinity Engine.
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