Thursday 9th December 2021

Hannah Nicklin is currently Studio Lead and CEO of Die Gute Fabrik, She was the writer for the game they released Mutazione. She would describe herself as a writer, game designer, academic and artist working at the confluence of game design, narrative design and game writing, performance writing, community-based practices and digital art. Her work is driven by an interest in the role of storytelling in everyday life; in enabling players, audiences and participants to reflect on their lives, lived in the inextricable context of one another.’


About her:

Trained as a playwriter

Loughborough uni for Drama


Storytelling for Games

Story Practice and Story Structure

About her:

Trained as a playwriter

Loughborough uni for Drama

Split career with practice


Career = in the hands of other people, leverage this using your practice

Practice = developing yourself, you have full agency over


Better storytelling in games

Vocabulary matters, good communication

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