Chris Hepler Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Freelancing video game work. Recently worked for ThrivePal, currently working with Eram Games.Additionally, whenever I have spare time, I stay active doing personal writing. My projects include novels and short fiction. The latest to be in print is the short story "High Water Mark" in the "Paladins of Valor" anthology, released April 19, 2024.

Austin, TX, US

I freelanced for Airship Syndicate on the game "Wayfinder" for about six months, and joined the staff full-time for another six. Then the Great Layoffs of 2024 hit Airship along with everyone else, and now I am open to work.I wrote quests, item descriptions, bestiary entries, Landmarks and Findings, a few songs, a ton of barks, and other player-facing.

Hong Kong, HK

Writer of a narrative-heavy resource-management mobile game. Responsible for writing everything with text: story, dialogue, tutorials, GUI, research documentation. Managed 1 direct report in Denmark with a team in Shanghai.

Greenwich, CT, US

I have been writing story, characters, and dialogue for as-yet-unannounced projects for Otherside Entertainment, Amazon Game Studios, Airship Syndicate, and I Got Games. * Amazon was a longer-term contract for My Loft, a contemporary comedy game for the Amazon Echo. I led a team of three writers who were great at comedy but didn't have game writing.

Redwood City, California, US

My most recent mission was to write the narrative and dialogue of Seasun's upcoming Pirates of the Caribbean game Sea of Glory. This included the narrative shift in direction from a mobile MMO to the Battle Royale format. I was also the lead writer on "Mythkillers," Seasun Comics' urban fantasy debut. We successfully Kickstarted "Mythkillers" in the summer.

I worked on approximately five projects in the free-to-play space: one roguelike, one RPG, and three hidden object titles. I made the words happen, in many diverse formats. My duties included writing story and character bibles, episode scripts, narrative design spreadsheets, hints for hidden objects (I've done over 3,500 so far), approving 2D and 3D art.

Edmonton, Alberta, CA

• Story Writing ResponsibilitiesStar Wars: The Old Republic
• Designed, pitched and wrote numerous multiplayer quests for planets including Taris, Balmorra, Tattooine, Belsavis, Alderran and Hoth.Mass Effect 2 (Including DLC: Zaeed, Kasumi, Firewalker, Equalizer, Overlord, Aegis.
• Headed up non-voiced text writing: codex, item descriptions, galaxy map and datapads.
• Became the “IP expert” in charge of scientific accuracy and in-world rationalizations for gameplay decisions for Mass Effect 2 DLC and full Mass Effect 3 project.Mass Effect 3 (Including DLC: From Ashes, Firefight.
• Pitched, designed, and wrote story and dialogue for critical path mission and key characters.
• Ownership of levels for Cerberus Coup & Silver Coast Casino, produced initial story plan for Lesuss.

• Electronic Games
• Sora, Tomo Software: Wrote for Sora, a teen-oriented massively-multiplayer mobile phone game. Designed decision-tree structure of in-game events, determined required game statistics, and wrote dialogue/text-output.
• Sanctum, Digital Addiction: Editor for Sanctum on-line strategy game. Helped define clarity of game-play and rules, assisted with world-development, worked on proposed novel spin-off.Tabletop Roleplaying Games
• Shadowrun, FASA Corporation (Cyberpirates, Beyond the Shadows: The Shadowrun Companion, Missions, others)
• Paranoia, West End Games (Creatures of the Nightcycle, others)
• Legend of the Five Rings, Alderac Entertainment Group (Bearers of Jade: The Second Book of the Shadowlands, Winter Court)

• The Agency (Saturdays, 10pm. One-hour drama about the CIA.)
• Story and teleplay for "The Great Game," first aired October 2002.
• Story and teleplay for "First Born," first aired November Sweeps 2002.
• Story for "An Isolated Incident," first aired January 2003. As staff writer, contributed to plans for season arc, wrote first filmed episode to introduce new main character A.B. Stiles, assisted other writers with CIA.