Langley Hyde
interactive fiction, game writing, narrative design, prose & poetry
about me
Langley is a narrative designer at Your Story Interactive and the writer of 7 Brothers and Vying for Versailles. Her short fiction appears in Hybrid Fiction, Escape Pod, Podcastle, Terraform, and elsewhere. Her novel, Highfell Grimoires, is a Best Book of 2014 in SF/Fantasy/Horror by Publishers Weekly.
She lives in the Pacific Northwest with her two partners, two children, really a lot of cats, and her dog. She enjoys permaculture gardening, tabletop co-ops and RPGs, action-adventure fantasy games and farming sims, creating multimedia/digital art, reading, and hiking.
skills
– fiction/nonfiction/poetry
– fantasy, sci-fi, historical, weird
– LGBTQ+ and inclusive storylines
– enjoys receiving/giving feedback
– languages: ink, Ren’Py (Atom)
– MS Office (Word, Excel)/Google Suite
– Discord/Skype/Slack/Teams
– dev editing and continuity editing
– art and design direction
– technical documentation
– 5 years supervisory experience
– teaching/instructional experience
– database management
– detail/deadline-oriented
Highlights
game writing
– set to finish in 2025
– contemporary romance
– completed full narrative design
– writes in Inky; tests in Unity
– delivers an episode every 2 weeks
– serialized release schedule
– asset description; art and design direction
– works with editors & translators
Visual Novel: Vying for Versailles | Your Story Interactive
– completed in 2024 at 450,000 words
– historical romance AU
– designed characters, plot, branching
– asset description; art and design direction
Interactive Film: I'm Sorry, I Love You | MFA Thesis
– written in Ren’Py (Atom)
– 28 min play time (WIP)
– scripted, wrote, drew, and animated it
– implemented music selection/SFX
– UI design
Visual Novel: Simply Gold StoryLoom Beta
– written in SL interface
– variable gender/romance
– Beta testing/writing
prose
– 50,000 word/5 episodes in franchise IP
– prose fiction to pre-established story beats
– responded to editorial feedback/edits
– coordinated with art/lore master, and communicated multi-disciplinary team
-5,000 word tie-in story, prose fiction
– written with established IP to story beats
– 5,000 word prose short story
– responded to edits
– collaborated with audio narrator
– 80k+ completed novel
– trad published at a small press
– 4+ stars on Amazon
– recognized by Publishers Weekly as a best book in Horror/SF/Fantasy
other work
– poetry, under 50 lines
– wrote and narrated flash fiction poetic prose for audio piece
Audio Narration: The Goblin Market | Bandcamp
– narrated “The Goblin Market” by Cristina Rossetti, to be set to music