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I was reading "Child of the Chaos" a novella packaged with Beyond Divinity and authored by Rhianna Pratchett, and discovered she is Terry Pratchett's daughter. She was a storywriter/storyeditor for Tomb Raider, Beyond Divinity, Prince of Persia (PS3), Bioshock Infinite, et al; her website looks like a very good resource for those interested in game-storywriting/storyediting (she uses the term 'narrative paramedic'). . . just an interesting tid-bit for those who didn't already know.
Post edited December 19, 2019 by lolinc
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lolinc: I was reading "Child of the Chaos" a novella packaged with Beyond Divinity and authored by Rhianna Pratchett, and discovered she is Terry Pratchett's daughter. She was a storywriter/storyeditor for Tomb Raider, Beyond Divinity, Prince of Persia (PS3), Bioshock Infinite, et al; her website looks like a very good resource for those interested in game-storywriting/storyediting (she uses the term 'narrative paramedic'). . . just an interesting tid-bit for those who didn't already know.
Yes, I have that little novella. Pretty good. Every year now I am missing the new discworld book.
Post edited December 19, 2019 by nightcraw1er.488
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lolinc: I was reading "Child of the Chaos" a novella packaged with Beyond Divinity and authored by Rhianna Pratchett, and discovered she is Terry Pratchett's daughter. She was a storywriter/storyeditor for Tomb Raider, Beyond Divinity, Prince of Persia (PS3), Bioshock Infinite, et al; her website looks like a very good resource for those interested in game-storywriting/storyediting (she uses the term 'narrative paramedic'). . . just an interesting tid-bit for those who didn't already know.
If my memory serves me right, she used to review PC games for PC Zone back in the day. Now that was a great games mag.
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lolinc: I was reading "Child of the Chaos" a novella packaged with Beyond Divinity and authored by Rhianna Pratchett, and discovered she is Terry Pratchett's daughter. She was a storywriter/storyeditor for Tomb Raider, Beyond Divinity, Prince of Persia (PS3), Bioshock Infinite, et al; her website looks like a very good resource for those interested in game-storywriting/storyediting (she uses the term 'narrative paramedic'). . . just an interesting tid-bit for those who didn't already know.
Reminder that Terry Pratchett was involved in the Oblivion and Skyrim modding scene so her being involved into making video game stories does make total sense.
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lolinc: I was reading "Child of the Chaos" a novella packaged with Beyond Divinity and authored by Rhianna Pratchett, and discovered she is Terry Pratchett's daughter. She was a storywriter/storyeditor for Tomb Raider, Beyond Divinity, Prince of Persia (PS3), Bioshock Infinite, et al; her website looks like a very good resource for those interested in game-storywriting/storyediting (she uses the term 'narrative paramedic'). . . just an interesting tid-bit for those who didn't already know.
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Doc0075: If my memory serves me right, she used to review PC games for PC Zone back in the day. Now that was a great games mag.
Interesting! I'll see whether I can find some scan-dumps; I never remember seeing that publication here in the States. . . I subscribed CGW until '99 (they fired Scorpia). And then I just pretty much surfed web-periodicals.
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lolinc: I was reading "Child of the Chaos" a novella packaged with Beyond Divinity and authored by Rhianna Pratchett, and discovered she is Terry Pratchett's daughter. She was a storywriter/storyeditor for Tomb Raider, Beyond Divinity, Prince of Persia (PS3), Bioshock Infinite, et al; her website looks like a very good resource for those interested in game-storywriting/storyediting (she uses the term 'narrative paramedic'). . . just an interesting tid-bit for those who didn't already know.
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Dray2k: Reminder that Terry Pratchett was involved in the Oblivion and Skyrim modding scene so her being involved into making video game stories does make total sense.
I didn't know that! I'll have to look into it.
Post edited December 19, 2019 by lolinc
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Dray2k: Reminder that Terry Pratchett was involved in the Oblivion and Skyrim modding scene so her being involved into making video game stories does make total sense.
Wow! Thanks for that information. I had no idea.
I found out about her, when she first made an appearance on TotalBiscuit's podcast. I still miss his voice.
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lolinc: I didn't know that! I'll have to look into it.
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kai2: Wow! Thanks for that information. I had no idea.
Here are two mods in which he was directly involved with. Same follower, different Bethesda games. Especially Skyrims version of Vilja seems to built on Terrys writing but I don't know to how much degree.
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/28977
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6722

And yeah, I'm kind of the "Skyrim modding "expert" (lol)" of the gog forums I guess. When Skyrim/Skyrim SE ever hits GOG I'm for sure going to write a huge .pdf guide on how to mod it, it goes beyond just downloading some tool and let it do anything. But the results can be quite stunning.

Right now Skyrim modding is pretty sophisticated and theres theres lots of exciting stuff coming out. Its too bad Bethesda ruins the experience by updating parts of the engine which breaks mods.
Post edited December 19, 2019 by Dray2k
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kai2: Wow! Thanks for that information. I had no idea.
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Dray2k: Here are two mods in which he was directly involved with. Same follower, different Bethesda games. Especially Skyrims version of Vilja seems to built on Terrys writing but I don't know to how much degree.
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/28977
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6722

And yeah, I'm kind of the "Skyrim modding "expert" (lol)" of the gog forums I guess. When Skyrim/Skyrim SE ever hits GOG I'm for sure going to write a huge .pdf guide on how to mod it, it goes beyond just downloading some tool and let it do anything. But the results can be quite stunning.

Right now Skyrim modding is pretty sophisticated and theres theres lots of exciting stuff coming out. Its too bad Bethesda ruins the experience by updating parts of the engine which breaks mods.
I gotta Say, I looked at that Vilja and do you know what first jumped at me, “I’m Imoen”. Don’t know why, perhaps looks similar. Either way I had to stop myself punching the screen!
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Dray2k: Here are two mods in which he was directly involved with. Same follower, different Bethesda games. Especially Skyrims version of Vilja seems to built on Terrys writing but I don't know to how much degree.
https://www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/28977
https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/6722
Heh, I never knew about that- pretty cool. The author of those mods, Emma, has been one of the top ES modders for companion mods since Morrowind, but I never knew that she had gotten Sir Terry to contribute writing to some of those mods.