Samantha Webb
Samantha is a narrative designer and game writer with production experience, and a member of BAFTA Crew Games 2021.
She has expericence writing for Frontier Developments, Ubisoft, Drop Bear Bytes, Adopt Me! and Ndemic Creations. She was the writer for indie game Yokai Moon and has previous experience as a dev manager for Riot Games. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the Game Dev Heroes Writing and Narrative Design award.
Samantha is also the co-founder of Clockwork Raven Studios, an indie studio working on engaging narrative games. In 2021 Clockwork Raven Studios was selected to participate in the Tentacle Zone’s inaugural game incubator.
Samantha is a regular speaker and panellist on narrative design and gender in the video game industry, and was awarded her MA in Game Design in 2017. She co-chaired the WGGB video games sub-committee from 2020-2022, and was a narrative design mentor for 2021’s Limit Break programme.
Portfolio and writing samples available on request.
Available for freelance narrative design, talks and panels.
Talks, Interviews, Panels and Recognition
Interview: Woman’s Hour (gender diversity in game character spoken lines). Radio 4, June 2023.
Co-chair: WGGB Video Games Craft Committee. WGGB, 2020-2022.
Interview: Digital Human (Saved: preserving video games). Radio 4, May 2021.
Mentor: Narrative Design. Limit Break, 2021.
Chair: Making Choices Matter - A Conversation with Jon Ingold. WGGB / IGDA / LSBU, February 2021
Panel: Writing for Games. Game Anglia / Elevate / Lambeth Council, February 2021
Narrative Design and Writing award (shortlisted). Game Dev Heroes, 2020
Panel: World Building in Video Games (chair). WGGB, July 2020
Panel: Getting Started and Staying In Video Games Narrative. WGGB, July 2020
Interview: Narrative Lead on Broken Roads. Drop Bear Bytes, February 2020
Talk: Getting Started with Story Bibles. GEL Evening of Design, February 2020
Panel: Writer’s Guild Christmas Panel. WGGB, December 2019
Talk: Lessons for New Game Writers. Adventure X, November 2019
Interview: Samantha Webb. Articy, November 2019
Talk: Group Play in Game Design. EL Innovation Summit, November 2019
Panel: Junior Designer Roundtable. Game Anglia, November 2019
Interview: Yokai Moon Preview. Wireframe Magazine, September 2019
Interview: MCV Rising Star. MCV / Develop, February 2019
Bylines include Rock Paper Shotgun, New Game + and First Person Scholar
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.