Will Hiles

I'm an experienced narrative designer/writer/editor. I began my industry career with Richard Garriot and Origin Systems/EA writing game manuals and collateral content (Ultima Online). I've created original stories, scripting, lore, and content for such games as City of Heroes/Villains, Dungeon Runners & Tabula Rasa (NCsoft).

I created the Duels universe for Challenge Games, was senior writer/world creator for Chronicles of Herenvale (MOSOSH), Ravenskye City & Ravenwood Fair (Roaring Bull/Lolapps), SyFy's Monster Island (Sneaky Games), Elements: Broken Lands (Team Chaos), Pearl's Peril, Agent Alice, Mass Ammo (Wooga), Wargaming.net (Hybrid Wars), the science fantasy MMO Splinters of Ares and Men in Black: Aliens and Agents (BullTiger Productions).

With One More Story Games, I helped to develop licensed literary properties into interactive media. I was a lead writer on Danielle's Inferno ( a parody of Dante's Inferno, based on a story by Olivia Rivard), which won the 2017 PC Game of the Year from the Toronto Game Devs.

My Berlin Wooga writing team was a finalist in the 2014 Develop Awards for Use of Narrative.

I have also been a professional writer for over 25 years, with credits in writing short stories, game strategy books, non-fiction game articles/reviews as a magazine editor (Computer Games Magazine & GameSpy), comic books, and screenplays. I'm published by Perseid Press, which is owned by fantasy/science fiction author Janet Morris, and by Iron Clad Press. I am a member of the Writers Guild of America West.

In 2016, I won the Wheel of Osheim Writing Contest hosted by Mark Lawrence.

I was the Lead Narrative Designer and Team Lead for Tau Station, a story-centric Sci-Fi MMO being developed by All Around the World. I also adapted Cixin Liu's The Wandering Earth for Crazy Maple Studios. I was the Managing Editor for Beijing Kunlun Tech's Stardust Works Studio (Moments Interactive Stories).

I am the author of the novelette "Red Rain" in the anthology Heroika: Dragon Eaters and co-author of the YA fantasy Little Wonders. Both are available on Amazon.

I have written episode spec scripts (Jezebel in Hell) for a proposed Showtime series created by Stephen Romano (Masters of Horror/Black Light/Ressurection Express).

Most recently, I was a senior narrative designer for Civilization Online (Leyou/Tencent) and senior writer on Ilysia VRMMO (Team 21 Studio).