Testimonials

Alex Austin - Cryptic Sea

Creator of Sub Rosa

“Working with Holly was a great experience, she was able to consult on many different areas including design, narrative, art style, and lighting/rendering. Once we had worked out the style and material properties she made a surprising amount of models in a short period of time, all of which were high quality. Basically the only reason I wouldn't recommend Holly is because I selfishly want her to be available to work with again.”

Phil Clandillon - Irregular Corporation

Franchise Director

“Holly undertook a 3-month project for us to create an early prototype, including an ambitious character tool. She carried out art direction and creation on the project. Holly was friendly, hard-working, professional and crucially had great ideas on the creative and technical side. The work Holly delivered exceeded our expectations, and I would highly recommend working with her.”

Nate Gallardo - Bossa Studios

Game Designer - Surgeon Simulator 2

 “I’ve had the privilege of working with Holly on two projects (so far), and each has been an absolute joy. Holly gets games. She’s a narrative designer who deeply understands the unique affordances of interactivity and knows how to work within and around the limitations of games. Holly brings a degree of professionalism and inimitable energy to a team that elevates the work of everyone else on it. So when I needed someone to help us develop our world, the characters to inhabit it, the story to tie it together, and weave all that into our game, I knew exactly who to turn to. 

Holly

  • Brought another vital perspective to complement, supplement and challenge mine. 

  • Helped us develop characters that are respectful of, and do justice to the people who inspired them, developing existing character outlines and creating all new ones. 

  • Worked with the team to establish our world bible. 

  • Performed extensive research, collecting photo-references to help establish and refine the look of our characters and environments

  • Developed guides for writing in-game copy, including technical text. 


I look forward to working with Holly again. I am a better designer having collaborated with her, and our game is a better game. “

Georg Backer - A Brave Plan

Game Director - The Bradwell Conspiracy

“Holly has been instrumental in making the Bradwell Conspiracy. Her combo responsibility of Art Direction and Narrative Design meant that she was involved in every aspect of the game: From Design, Story, Characters, World Building, Writing, Art creation and Art Direction.
Holly and I worked closely together on the Narrative Design for the game, from initial story structure, world-building, writing… We both wanted to create a believable, rich and interesting world that had enough room for the Player to explore and engage with. As a game director and writer, it’s a special moment when you find a creative partner who is on the same wavelength: We were able to split up the narrative design work amongst each other and it still felt all coherent, believable and cohesive.
Holly’s Art Direction skills also enabled her to take the Narrative Design and feed it into the art direction, art feedback and even her own art asset creation. This is why art and narrative gel so well together in The Bradwell Conspiracy.
Holly has also done meticulous research for the narrative, has written character profiles, timelines, dialogue, detailed story lore and background, etc.
It was her first role as Art Director and Narrative Designer combo on a game, from start to finish, taking on a huge responsibility and also having to look after and lead the art team!
A lot of reviews of The Bradwell Conspiracy have specifically mentioned the narrative design, storytelling and how interesting and coherent and exciting the world of The Bradwell Conspiracy is. One review even called The Bradwell Conspiracy “[…]a masterpiece of narrative storytelling […]”. And that wouldn’t have been possible without Holly.”

“One of my best ever hiring decisions.”