Category: Scriptwriting

Draculas Night Oot

Attached below is a script I wrote a few years ago.

It was for a BBC comedy shorts competition they were running out of Writers Room. The competition was called “Fright Shorts” and it was meant to be comedy horror.

My idea was Dracula arrives in the North East of England but rather than going out on the hunt, decides to sleep for a while, waking in the 21st Century and coming directly into contact with modern 21st Century Geordie Women.

Hijinks ensure.

So, without further ado, Dracula’s Night Oot.

Draculas Night Oot FD

Regency Royale

In late 2019, just before the Covid thing, I was working on a game design document for a real time tactics video game with the working title of “Regency Royale”.

A quasi-historical world designed to evoke some great narrative inspired by one of the best RTT games in the genre, Myth II (originally by Bungie, you know, the folks who made Halo).

A Regency Imperium genre game – when muskets were the most dangerous personal weapons on the battlefield.

And a mix of magic, steam and gunpowder to wrap around the unit tactics.

When Covid hit I was about to commission the first prototype, built on the Unity 3D engine, but like so many things it’s been forced to take a back seat. It’s something I want to get back to – maybe next commissioning some art.

Current work…writing scripts

For the last few months, on top of travelling and attending a bazillion courses, I’ve been writing.

I’ve written five short scripts in the world of THE 23RD LETTER. I’ve written two more in the world of STATUS: REFUGEE. I’ve written one horror script. And I’m looking at writing some scripts based on FRONTIER and QABAL very soon. And there’s one very special property that I would love to pitch to the BBC…

Two of my scripts are going into production in 2017 and I’ll be doing a “mobile phone” shoot of one of my scripts probably over the upcoming holidays.

So, all change.