Rhianna Pratchett

Rhianna Pratchett (born 30 December 1976) is a video games writer, comics writer, and journalist. Pratchett is the author of the Fighting Fantasy book Crystal of Storms.

Biography

Rhianna Pratchett was born in 1976, the daughter of fantasy writer Terry Pratchett and Lyn Purves.

Pratchett began working in the computer games industry in 2002. She worked on the game Beyond Divinity, produced by Larian Studios in Belgium. She also wrote a novella to accompany Beyond Divinity. In 2007, her work on the game Heavenly Sword was nominated for a BAFTA. In 2008 she won a Writers' Guild of Great Britain 'Best Videogame Script' award for her work on Overlord. Pratchett wrote the script for the Tomb Raider: The Beginning comic (produced by Dark Horse, and the Mirror's Edge miniseries with DC Comics. She wrote the script for issue 3 of Legends of Red Sonja for Dynamite Entertainment based on the female warrior created by Robert E. Howard). Pratchett has written several of her own short stories. Pratchett has also produced material for various books on games narrative including Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing and Game Writing: Narrative Skills for Videogames.

Video Games

• Beyond Divinity (story editor) – Larian Studios (2004)

• Stronghold Legends (writer) – Firefly Studios/2K Games|2K (2006)

• Heavenly Sword (co-writer/story) – Ninja Theory/Sony](2007)

Comics

• Mirror's Edge #1 to #6 – published by DC Comics (2008)

• Tomb Raider: The Beginning – published by Dark Horse Comics (2013)

• Legends of Red Sonja #3 – published by Dynamite (2014)

• Tomb Raider #7 to #18 – published by Dark Horse Comics (2014–2015)