RAID: Shadow Legends
About
RAID: Shadow Legends is a popular auto-battler mobile game. It features a large roster of characters which the player can customise and upgrade, and is set in the fantasy world of Teleria.
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Role
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In my role as Contract Lore Master I was responsible for writing character biographies for the game's myriad heroes. My starting point was always the character art, and using that as inspiration for the character's history, personality, and motivations. s
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Each biography had an 800 word limit, and I wrote multiple biographies each week as part of a part-time contract. There was a significant editing process, with multiple drafts before submitting the completed work.
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This role was fully remote, working with a team of developers from around the world, and used industry standard tools such as JIRA (for task assignment and tracking), and Confluence (for the world bible that acted as my main reference document).
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In-game character biography I have written for one of the game's legendary champions.
In-game character biography I have written for one of the game's legendary champions.
In-game character biography I have written for one of the game's legendary champions.
Inspirations
I drew on a wide variety of inspirations from across fantasy for this writing. In particular, I spent a lot of time reading myths and legends from across the world, because that felt like the style of writing that was closest to what I was trying to achieve.
One of the things I was also interested in with this work was subverting expectations, and trying to build characters that weren't necessarily what the player might expect. This was particularly important to make sure that I didn't fall into tropes and conventions of fantasy writing that have a history associated with real-world prejudices.