Langley Hyde
interactive fiction, game writing, narrative design, prose & poetry
about me
Langley is a narrative designer at Romance Club and the writer of 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, three cats, and her dog. She enjoys gardening, tabletop co-ops and RPGs, multimedia/digital art, reading, and hiking.
skills
– fiction/nonfiction/poetry
– fantasy, sci-fi, historical, LGBTQ+
– languages: ink, Ren’Py (Atom)
– MS Office (Word, Excel)/Google Suite
– Unity, Blender
– Discord/Skype/Slack
– dev and continuity editing
– art and design direction
– technical documentation
– 5 years supervisory experience
– database management
– detail/deadline-oriented
Highlights
interactive
– complete in 2024 at 450,000 words
– historical romance AU
– designed characters, plot, branching
– 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
– written in Ren’Py (Atom)
– 17 min play time (WIP)
– scripted/written/drawn/animated; music selection/SFX selection, UI
– written in SL interface
– variable gender/romance
– Beta testing/writing
prose
– 50k 5 episode series in established IP
– prose fiction to pre-established story beats
– responded to editorial feedback/edits
– coordinated with art/lore master, and communicated multi-disciplinary team
-5k tie-in story, prose fiction
– written with established IP to story beats
– 5k 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