Susan O'Connor Writing Studio

Hello

We provide story development and scriptwriting services to game studios and their publishers. Titles in our portfolio have generated over a billion dollars in sales. We’ve worked with some of the best studios and designers in the country, and contributed to award-winning, groundbreaking titles. We’ve turned that experience into a set of practices that can help any team.

Clients

Portfolio

Tomb Raider Crystal Dynamics Over 4 million copies sold worldwide Star Wars 1313 Lucas Arts Winner of multiple awards at E3 2012; cancelled before it's time :( Far Cry 2 Ubisoft Montreal Nominee, "Best Writing" award at GDC BioShock 2 2K Games Best-selling game in UK and North America in first week of release BioShock 2K Games Winner, "Best Writing" award at GDC

Services

We can make your story work. Here's how.

Heavy Lifting We provide a full range of storytelling services for our clients. We start with your game's world, and continue through character development and narrative design, all the way to the final line of dialog. We can work independently or alongside your team's writing talent to help bring your story to life. Firefighting What if: your advance reviewers tear your story apart. The testers hate your characters. Your plot doesn’t integrate with your levels. The dialog is a disaster. Are you doomed? Of course not! We have come onto projects late in development - as late as content lock - and helped the team correct course. If you're facing a challenge, we can help. Expert Services If the goal is to earn a Metacritic score of 90+, and you’re not Call of Duty, your game will have to have a great story. And it won’t be told by just one person – everybody on the team will play a part. We join a team to lead brainstorming sessions, conduct story audits, develop IP, and run game-writing workshops. We work with studios to help turn game developers into storytellers.

Talks

We offer presentations, seminars, and workshops worldwide

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