About Me

I’m Paul C. R. Monk — an award-winning narrative designer, senior scriptwriter, and novelist with experience crafting stories, characters, and worlds for console, PC, and mobile games.

My credits include:

• Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (WGA-nominated)
• Syberia: The World Before (Gamescom Best PC Game Winner, 2021)
• Raid: Shadow Legends ($1B+ lifetime revenue)
• Lead Narrative roles at FunPlus and Plarium
• Narrative Director roles at ByteDance and Happy Elements

I specialise in story structure, worldbuilding, character arcs, cinematic scripts, and VO direction for both console and mobile AAA titles.

Based in China and working globally, I offer freelance and consulting services to studios seeking expert narrative support.

 

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Narrative Services

Narrative Design

• Story pillars & worldbuilding
• Campaign arcs & quest flow
• Gameplay-integrated storytelling
• Narrative documentation (design bibles, tone guides)

Game Writing

• Cinematics (full scripts + staging notes)
• Branching dialogue & questlines
• Hero stories and character bios
• In-game texts, journals, items, flavour writing

Team Leadership & Direction

• Lead narrative designer / narrative director roles
• VO direction (remote & onsite)
• Mocap script preparation and session direction
• Mentoring junior writers
• Cross-discipline collaboration with design, art, and audio
  

Editorial & Localisation

• English script polish
• Rewriting translated scripts
• Style harmonisation for multi-writer teams

AI-Enhanced Narrative Workflow

• Iteration pipelines using AI tools
• Dialogue variation & prototyping
• Ethical AI-assisted creative processes (human-overseen)

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Selected Game Credits

AAA Console & PC

• Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate (Ubisoft)
• Syberia: The World Before (Microids)
• Skull & Bones early development (Ubisoft Singapore)
• Might & Magic (Ubisoft)
• Ghost Recon Warfighter 2 (Ubisoft)

AAA Mobile / Live Service

• Raid: Shadow Legends (Plarium)
• Call of Antia (FunPlus)
• Unannounced AAA Survival (ByteDance)
• Unannounced Fantasy Naval RPG (Happy Elements)

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Roles & Contributions

Across these projects, I have contributed:

• Main path cinematic scripts
• Full campaign stories
• Side quests & branching dialogue
• Character development and hero arcs
• VO scripts and session direction
• Lore documentation
• Narrative design documentation
• Creative direction for narrative teams
• Collaboration with design, art, audio, and production
• Narrative-led gameplay design

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Contact

📩 Interested in working together?
I’m available for freelance and consulting roles.

• Email: paulcrmonk@gmail.com
• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/paulcrmonk

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