Rhianna Pratchett

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Rhianna Pratchett (born 30 December 1976) is an English video game writer, narrative designer, and journalist. She is the daughter of fantasy writer Terry Pratchett. She has worked on titles such as Tomb Raider (2013), Heavenly Sword, Overlord, and Mirror's Edge.

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

Pratchett moved into script writing and narrative design in 2002, with the title Beyond Divinity which was produced by Larian Studios in Belgium. 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 authored 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). In 2013, she was inducted into the European Women in Games Hall of Fame. At E3 2013 a new entry in the Mirror's Edge franchise was announced, fans of Lisa Miskovsky and Rhianna Pratchett made a petition to make sure EA DICE hire her to pen the script for the new game.

She is co-director of the Narrativia multimedia production company, currently working on three television projects based on her father's works: The Watch, Good Omens, and Wee Free Men (which she is personally adapting into a feature script), as well as several other projects. She has also spoken on BBC Radio 1, Radio 4, 5Live and multiple conferences around the world, including Develop, Animex, GDC and TEDx Rome.

Rhianna's father has chosen Rhianna to be the 'custodian' of the Discworld, if and when he becomes unable to continue with the series; Rhianna has clarified that she will 'hold the reins' of the Discworld, rather than actively participate in the series, and that she will most likely not be writing any 'new' Discworld novels when the time comes.