lena falkenhagen

faculty lead game design, narrative

About

Designing worlds, telling stories and creating characters professionally for over twenty years now, I have published 9 original novels, worked on countless tabletop RPG extensions and designed world and content of Drakensang Online browser game for 5 years. For the past 3 years, I have been teaching novel writing and dramaturgy classes. I am co-founder and treasurer of Germany's Fantasy Writer's Association PAN and a speaker on story and narrative topics at literature and gaming conferences like Literaturcamp Heidelberg, Respawn Conference and Quo Vadis Conference. Stories are my passion, as is finding new ways and means of telling them. I am aspiring to find just the right way to reach and move my audience. Though my native language is German, I fell in love with English when I was a child and still feel it is a home to me. In my career, I've been writing professionally in English and German.

Country

germany

City

stellingen

Industry

computer games

Skill

videospiele, narrative design, narrative structures, lektorat, fantasy novels, content design, verlagswesen, korrekturlesen, games, online gaming, computerspiele, world building, spieldesign, editing, tabletop rpg design, bloggen, historical fiction novels, sci fi novels, english proofreading, publishing, social network spiele, screenwriting, translating english >german, content strategie, belletristik, casual games, workshops on writing, lectures, public speaker, spieleentwicklung, schreiben, video games, game development, writing, kreatives schreiben, storytelling

Experience

faculty lead game design, narrative

professional freelancer

gamestar magazine

2017-8 - Present · 9 yrs 2 mos

professional freelancer

fischer tor

2017-9 - Present · 9 yrs 1 mo

the dark eye editor

fantasy productions

1993-1 - 2011-1 · 18 yrs 1 mo

Editing Board of Germany's most popular tabletop RPG The Dark Eye (Das Schwarze Auge).

novelist and game writer

lena falkenhagen

1994-6 - Present · 32 yrs 4 mos

9 published novels at Random House (Heyne Verlag). Among these Fantasy novels, historical fiction novels, and a sci-fi-novel.

network founder and narrative vision

1narrative

2016-11 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

You are a professional game studio with a prototype? You are an Indie studio and want to embed story in your game? You need narrative customised to your unique game vision? 1narrative will be with you all the way, from finding a vision for your game to telling one story over all three levels of narrative (art, audio, text) that suits your game perfectly. We will support you with world building, high level dramaturgy to hands-on quest planning, even inventing fantasy languages.

novel writing coach

www.method-writing.de

2013-7 - Present · 13 yrs 3 mos

Since 1994, I've been holding workshops and talks about dramatical structures, concepting of novels and stories, world building and editing.

story lead and senior narrative designer

bigpoint gmbh

2012-1 - 2017-9 · 5 yrs 9 mos

Bigpoint (www.bigpoint.com) is a leading global online game developer and publisher. Headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, Bigpoint designs high-quality games for all gamer segments for browser, client and mobile. They are published on bigpoint.com, as well as by more than 1,000 international distribution partners and media companies. Employees from 35 countries use state-of-the-art technology to transform the industry with innovative gaming concepts, while setting international standards to fulfill the expectations of more than 350 million gamers in over 200 countries. Every one of the 40 online games in Bigpoint´s portfolio is free-to-play and many of the titles have won various international prizes and audience awards, such as the German Developer Award 2014 and the Game Connection Award 2015 for Shards of War. In addition to its headquarters in Hamburg, Bigpoint holds a development hub in Berlin, a mobile game studio in Lyon and maintains presences throughout Europe, the USA and Asia for distribution purposes.Join our fast growing international team today - www.bigpoint.net.