I'm Tom Knights, a writer and game designer who currently resides in Glasgow, Scotland.
In 2009, I began an MA course in Interactive Entertainment (which essentially means telling stories through games and other interactive media). Upon graduating in 2010, I went on to join the Glasgow-based game developer One Thumb Mobile, to work as a writer and designer on the then-fledgling MMORPG Celtic Heroes.
I went on to create the majority of quests for the game, as well as to write the dialogue for hundreds of different characters, and was pleased to see Celtic Heroes grow to become one of the largest and most successful multiplayer roleplaying games on mobile devices.
Outside of game development, my short story The Last Chapter was published by the British Fantasy Society's 'New Horizons' magazine in 2010, and in 2011 I was privileged to be asked to speak about game writing at the 360 Narratives Weekend, hosted by Playwrights' Studio Scotland.
In 2012 I was featured in Develop Magazine's annual '30 Under 30' feature, a showcase of emerging talent in the games industry, where I was highlighted for my writing work
In 2013, I was excited to be invited back to Edinburgh Napier University - where I had studied for my Masters - to speak to some of their MA students about the various challenges of writing for games on mobile devices, while in 2014 I was lucky enough to get a place on Arvon's Writing for Games course - led by the wise and talented David Varela and Jon Ingold - which gave me the opportunity to brush up my game writing skills in the peaceful environment of the Yorkshire Dales.
I left One Thumb Mobile in 2015 to embark on a period of freelance game writing work. I've since worked for the US-based companies Pocket Gems and Choice of Games, and am currenly employed as a narrative designer at one of the UK's largest mobile game studios, NaturalMotion.
In 2009, I began an MA course in Interactive Entertainment (which essentially means telling stories through games and other interactive media). Upon graduating in 2010, I went on to join the Glasgow-based game developer One Thumb Mobile, to work as a writer and designer on the then-fledgling MMORPG Celtic Heroes.
I went on to create the majority of quests for the game, as well as to write the dialogue for hundreds of different characters, and was pleased to see Celtic Heroes grow to become one of the largest and most successful multiplayer roleplaying games on mobile devices.
Outside of game development, my short story The Last Chapter was published by the British Fantasy Society's 'New Horizons' magazine in 2010, and in 2011 I was privileged to be asked to speak about game writing at the 360 Narratives Weekend, hosted by Playwrights' Studio Scotland.
In 2012 I was featured in Develop Magazine's annual '30 Under 30' feature, a showcase of emerging talent in the games industry, where I was highlighted for my writing work
In 2013, I was excited to be invited back to Edinburgh Napier University - where I had studied for my Masters - to speak to some of their MA students about the various challenges of writing for games on mobile devices, while in 2014 I was lucky enough to get a place on Arvon's Writing for Games course - led by the wise and talented David Varela and Jon Ingold - which gave me the opportunity to brush up my game writing skills in the peaceful environment of the Yorkshire Dales.
I left One Thumb Mobile in 2015 to embark on a period of freelance game writing work. I've since worked for the US-based companies Pocket Gems and Choice of Games, and am currenly employed as a narrative designer at one of the UK's largest mobile game studios, NaturalMotion.
