And while he played games, I would get out the graph paper, and I would draw the maps for him.
So dad became a bit like an older brother, and he was very into electronics and computers and technology of all kinds, and I would sit next to him in his office. RP: There was a lot of game playing that I used to do with dad because I was an only child, so I didn't have any siblings to play with. So, extrapolating off of that: What is the first game you recall sucking you into its world specifically, via the narrative or story? Since her breakthrough in Overlord, Pratchett has gone on to work on some of gaming’s biggest franchises- Mirror’s Edge, Thief, Bioshock, and Tomb Raider-and even won the prestigious Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing award at the 2016 Writers Guild of America Awards for her work on Rise of the Tomb Raider.
After a quick Google search, you find that she’s the daughter of the famous Discworld author Terry Pratchett, and that she began as a gaming journalist before crossing over to write for games rather than about them. As the credits roll, you make sure to note the person responsible for the quips and barbs: Rhianna Pratchett. Your terse response-being an evil Overlord while commanding a horde of unruly minions is hard goddamn work, after all-is that someone was paid a good amount of money to make them sound that way.īut the question sticks in your mind as the in-game banter continues to amuse, so much so that you find yourself laughing out loud. Your partner asks you why the little, evil dudes in a certain game called Overlord speak as if they were stolen from a Monty Python sketch.
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