Rhianna Pratchett launches portfolio website

by Jem Alexander on Mar 18th 2009 7:25PM

Rhianna Pratchett, the British game writer behind Heavenly Sword, Overlord (and its upcoming sequels), Mirror's Edge and Viking: Battle For Asgard has launched her portfolio website, making it easier to keep track of her various projects. The website showcases all the games that she's worked on, as well as her contributions to some game writing textbooks and her ongoing series of Mirror's Edge comic books.

There are also links to interviews (including one of ours) for those who want to get a little more insight into the person behind the words. From the look of things, the site won't be updated for a while as Rhianna's being kept fairly busy with Overlord 2 and the Wii and DS Overlord games. Now that she's set up home on the internet, we wonder if she'll be joining us on Twitter soon, too.

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Tags: heavenly-sword, mirrors-edge, Overlord, Rhianna-pratchett

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If there's ANYONE around currently milking less talent into MORE exposure now that John Romero's disappeared, I must be doing a pretty good job of ignoring them.

It's because she's a she.

But as I recall, BioShock was written by a lady too, and I never hear her mentioned..

... probably because Bioshock was garbage.

She's Terry Pratchett's daughter. Mebbe that helps.

Or could just be that she's gunning for publicity, unlike any other videogame writer.

(Although I have to say, I loved Heavenly Sword's story - not so much the plot, but I found the characters and the dialogue great.)

Why do they want us to care? Cause she's a chic.

Tim Schafer doesn't have a blog.
Michael Ancel doesn't have a blog.
Chris PLANESCAPE TORMENT Avellone doesn't have a blog.

Those three MEN could squeeze more talent out of their toe nails than this flavor of the moment. Don't get me wrong, its awesome women are appearing in the industry. Its about TIME they are treated equally!

...so, lets FUCKING TREAT THEM EQUALLY.

Actually Tim Schafer kind of has a blog, and it's bloody Timtastic. So random and hilarious.

As for Rihanna Pratchett, Overlord had some funny lines so I'll give her that.

But I think the woman who wrote the Legacy of Kain games deserves much more credit, smartly written. As does the guy who wrote one of the best game stories ever, Planescape Torment. I would also love to see Michel Ancel's blog if he had one.

Good list dude.

Michel Ancel's would probably be in French

eh not a fan of her writing. mirror's edge was atrocious.

lol yea.
But its good that we have more positive female gaming figures to balance out the poor ones who lick PSP's.

Doh! Burn.

I thought the "staring at something far-off with hair blowing in the wind" pose was owned exclusively by anime.

But it looks sooooo cool! =D

Well... at least it's more talented than the other Rihanna.

Fernando, what are you doing here? I don't see Wii or Nintendo mentioned anywhere in this post!

You didn't think Umberella was the greatest thing since the Macarena?

Really?

"From the look of things, the site won't be updated for a while as Rhianna's being kept fairly busy with Overlord 2 and the Wii and DS Overlord games"

Fernando... That was sarcasm. But thanks for biting the bullet. ;D

speaking of Wii games: BUY RUNE FACTORY FRONTIER DAMMIT

I want Rune Factory, but right now I'm a little moneyless... and I need to start saving for my DSi.

I just bought MadWorld and de Blob last sunday... and I want Rune Factory and Kororinpa 2. Too many good games at the same time.

By the way: de Blob... fucking awesome. It's my new addiction. I love the music and how it reacts to your gameplay, and the visuals are very pretty, at 60fps.

BUY DE BLOB DAMMIT

I'm not a fan of the other Rhianna and her music but she seems to be talented and has a pretty voice. She has horrible taste in picking a sig. other but thats her personal business not mine.

The only writing I remember from Viking was "Yargh, we dont have any ale so go kill some guys". Which is a shame because there was a point where they made it look like Skarin was the son of Fenrir or something but instead you go there and nothing happened

it would've been nice if there was a link to the portfolio.

Click on 'Source'.

Click on her picture

Thanks. Neither links were available when the article was first published. Now it is.

"Hey JP, How Much Do Cloths Cost In The MATRIX"

The answers are out there Neo.

Mirror's Edge was so heavy-handed that I was pressing "start" through the cutscenes like it was a MGS mini-game. It was like a bad Sci-Fi Original penned by a random 18-year old activist they dragged off the street.

lol, how much money did she pay for that shot of hers taken like that?

Rhianna Pratchett: "Is that a heavenly sword in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?"

She's pretty cute for a goth girl.

Well, i don't know whta kind of goth girls are around your neighborhood, but around mine, most goth girl are the sexiest hot girls you'll ever find here in hermosillo. Well, not most of them, you'll still find hotter girls on masage house and td's, but still, at least 70% of the goth girls I know are pretty hot (and most of them i had already do them, xD)

Man, i love goth girls, but i rather have a japanese schoolgirl over a goth anytime

Why is this story of any interest other than the "ooh, a woman has a website" that has already been mentioned? I don't recall any "noted games journalist and writer Kieron Gillen has a website" posts.

Still prefer her dads writing.

Chris Brown didnt mess her up that bad....

lol, beat me to it

honestly i was going to ask, "where's the bruises?" must have combined and used a few green herbs or something.

She should make a game with Jade Raymond so they can collectively froth up enough unwarranted hype to guarantee platinum sales.

Daughter of Terry Pratchett? colour me interested.

quote: "But as I recall, BioShock was written by a lady too, and I never hear her mentioned.."

bioshock was loosely based on the work of Ayn Rand, thats probably who you mean. the story in the game wasnt written by a woman though... not that it matters, the quality of the story is all that counts.

and i personally dont like the work of Rhianna Pratchett; mirrors edge was particularly abysmal in regard to the narrative, cliche and painfully predictable to the point where i would have preferred the game to simply be a huge collection of timetrial tracks instead. it seems that dice think the same, looking at the type of DLC they recently put out.

quote: "Daughter of Terry Pratchett? colour me interested."

i sincerely doubt any of that talent is genetically transferred. judge a writer by his/her work, not his/her last name or sex...

Don't mean to be overly geeky (but who's going to judge me here) but since the site has a Page Rank of 3 it must've been up for a couple months at least, so launched is a bit of a stretch.

I'd still do her.

Nothing wrong with a little exposure to help line your pockets with money. If the website helps her get more work then there's nothing wrong with that. Overlord had a pretty good and twisted-humor story and Gnarl's oneliners were hilarious.

I'll admit that she does need to lay off the goth-y photographs though. It looks really pretentious and vain. You're a writer...not the lead singer of Creed.

She looks a lot like the girl thats plays Sonja on "Underworld: Rise fo the Lycans"

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