Rebecca McCarthy - Game Writer & Narrative Designer

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🖊 Senior Game Writer / Narrative Designer @ ??? 🌟 Portfolio: https://gameswriting.coffee 🌎 https://rebeccam.carrd.co 🌟 Previously: Dirty Bomb / Gears Tactics / Yooka-Replaylee

Photo of a cinema corridor with black wavy lines and strange depth perception.
Screencap of Ryan Gosling meeting Elmo with the subtitle " Mr Ryan Gosling sure gave Elmo a lot to think about."
A Western man in a bad blonde wig in a Chinese FMV game.
Photograph of the Mathematical bridge in the sun.
A marks and spencers chocolate pistachio creme and strawberry sando on dead grass.
A gaming cocktail served in a mini bathtub style container.
A copy of the Flabbergasted ttrpg expansion Mystified and the GMs screen.
Screenshot of Demon Castle Story a dungeon building themed management game for mobile.
Screenshot from a UKGE creator slide deck which includes such gems as "Good hooks: I'm going to UK Games Expo 2026."
Export from a deep space nine title generator with the caption "How many times have I rewatched this, who knows?"
Photo of chocolate cake, fruit and an ice coffee at a cafe window counter.
Photo of a forbidden planet bag, free comic Shanna and an ice coffee.
Screenshot of the Steam controller a red squiggle has been added to the touchpads to highlight how the controller looks like a shy face.
Screenshot from Beneath a steel sky
Photograph of the board game from Red Rising.
A gambling ad for King Kong cash
Screenshot from a job site that says "Badger Surveys"
Red transparent pieces
A masked person doodle on a Wes Anderson script with strong energy
A yugioh soft toy with a weird face
Photo of the Game Narrative Kaleidoscope
Mumbo Shuffle Steam Store Page: Load up on snacks, ready your remote, and join the mischievous Mumbos as you play, build, and jumble your way to victory in this card-based roguelike deckbuilder set in the hidden universe at the edges of the TV signal.
A horrific pink unicorn themed bubble gun
A black ship 3d model in a bottle with torn sails.
A skull from a new dinosaur. It has a long thing head and a horn near the eye socket.
Nandor from what we do in the shadows
Poker chip style tokens from flamecraft. They have candy like stripes.
Text Prompt that says "Are you sure you would like to return to the world?"
Red Meeples from Game of Thrones.
A tray of red transparent tokens that looks like candy photo from https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2681342/red-rising-red-falling-roll-to-review
Image of a bag of Wingspan egg tokens that look like Mini Eggs
Photo of the game of thrones board in play
A picture of a cat pattern on a piece of fabric that also looks like a barfing dragon.
Social graphic featuring games I have worked on including Gears Tactics Yooka-Replaylee, and Dirty Bomb.
Photo of three Alien film minis on a Nostromo board.
A picture of an interrobang
Photograph of the box for Betrayal the tuletide tale board game expansion.
Screenshot from a menu from the FMV game Road to Empress: A thumbnail of a fluffy white dog with the label "Important."
A Chinese prince dressed in white with the subtitle "Where grace and beauty fill the rooms."
A death screen showing how the player died with in game character comments.
A woman with an evil grin in period Chinese costume pets a fluffy white dog.
A blokees brand transformer figure.
Photo of the game A place for all my books with stacks of wooden book tokens.
A smug gingerbread man in the whipped cream on a coffee.
Photo Panelists at AdventureX
My dinner korean chicken
The panelists in action
Photograph of the panelists at AdventureX
Resources: RESOURCES Meander, Spiral, Explode: Jane Alison Writing the Other: Nisi Stuw! & Cynthia Ward How Popular Culture Destrovs Our Political Imagination: Eugene Nuinan Craft in the Real World: Mathew Salesses Emergent Strategy: adrienne marce brown Critical Play: Mary Flannagan Writing for Games: Hannah Nicklin Slow Narrative and Nonhuman Materialities: Marco Caracciolo Theater of the Oppressed: Augusto Boal "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" essay: Ursule K. LeGuin Steering the Craft: Ursula K. LeGuin Spring, Summer, Asteroid, Bird: Henry Lien The Sky is Falling: Peter Biskind The Heroine's Journey: Maureen Murdock The Heroine's Journey: Gail Carriger (Yup same title.) The World Builder's Incubator: https://wbistories.org Why Hero's Journey Sux: Maggie Mae Fish (video) Follow these people: Christy Dena: Dr. Yen Ooi, Jenifer Toksvig: Milo Chao: Wendy Loeb: Rebecca Solnit, Emily Short: Henry
Hero's journey on slides at AdventureX crossed out
4. That Feel Emotionally True Give your characters an EMOTIONAL INNER LIFE that rings true Great characters FEEL
3. Making Bad Decisions Justify the bad decisions But don't make characters stupid for the sake of story
7 Fundamentals of a Great Story Real characters at the centre of a story, making bad decisions that feel emotionally true, in a sequence that satisfies the audience by connecting events together in poetic ways.
Learning curve diagrame
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