Deandra Warrick Email & Phone Number

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Starting a new adventure! Details forthcoming.

• Developed and maintained a high-level story arc in collaboration with the Narrative Director and Creative Director.
• Evangelized the narrative vision to the leadership of other departments and worked to ensure that all creative stakeholders were working toward a singular goal.
• Identified and exploited narrative possibility spaces that aligned with the mechanics and player experience.Sadly, Crop Circle Games closed its doors and laid off all of its employees in March of 2024.

Greater Denver Area

In addition to the skills listed below, I accepted the following additional responsibilities:* Sourced, interviewed, and hired a diverse team of narrative pros* Actively mentored team members and worked with them to achieve their career goals* Interfaced regularly and productively with publisher-side stakeholders* Participated in the casting and directing.

Denver Metropolitan Area

In addition to the skills listed below, I took on the following additional responsibilities:* Helped to develop a narrative workflow for remote work during the first uncertain weeks of the pandemic* Developed and took ownership of several narrative systems unseen up to that point in a Life is Strange game, including an interactive in-game dating app.

Denver Metropolitan Area

* Participated in writer's room-style collaborations with a team of five other narrative professionals* Collaborated with and learned from talented devs from a variety of disciplines, including environment artists, level designers, and designers, and motion capture technicians* Wrote and revised cinematic scripts at a high quality bar and against tight.

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

* Crafted main-quest narrative summaries, casting sheets, lore documents, and other pre-production narrative materials.* Wrote and revised scripts for dramatically weighty critical-path quests* Collaborated closely with members of various design disciplines on side-quest content

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

* Wrote and revised several side-quests that appear in The Frozen Wilds, Horizon Zero Dawn's DLC, including "Waterlogged," in which Aloy navigates a flooded old-world dam and discovers the demos of a long-dead punk rock band* Wrote combat barks, ambient dialogue, and collectible lore datapoints

Remote

I wrote the ambient dialogue for three tribes in Horizon Zero Dawn, as well as combat barks for a number of major NPCs. I wrote the majority of the game’s world datapoints, through which I was able to define a large part of the character of the pre-apocalyptic world of Horizon. For my work on this game, I received the Writer’s Guild of America award for.