{"id":7,"date":"2010-07-11T20:05:23","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T20:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mauricesuckling.com\/site\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T13:40:18","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T13:40:18","slug":"who","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mauricesuckling.com\/site\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Build a Time Machine!\" width=\"580\" height=\"326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uSHS30Ya0tY?start=1&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">Maurice&#8217;s first game was <em>Driver<\/em>, in 1999. Since then he&#8217;s worked on over 50 published video games, including <em>Fortnite,&nbsp;<\/em><em>Killing Floor 2, Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel<\/em>, <em>Mafia III, Civilization VI,<\/em> and the <em>Wii Fit<\/em> series. He&#8217;s worked as a producer, a designer, and a voice director, but most often as a writer. Between 2013 and 2015 he was Narrative Director at 2K Australia. Outside of games he works in TV and fiction, co-writing some of the first season of <em>Alphablocks<\/em> for BBC TV, and publishing a collection of short stories, <em>Photocopies of Heaven<\/em>. He holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Newcastle University, and a Masters in Global History from Birmingham University.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>He is currently an Assistant Professor at RPI in Upstate NY, where his research interests are storytelling in games, board and card games as storytelling systems, history <em>in<\/em> games, and history <em>of<\/em> games.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes he works as a freelance writer, design consultant, voice director, motion capture director, animation director, or in some other consultant capacity within games and interactive entertainment.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise you may find him doing much of the stuff that humans are regularly found doing.<\/p>\n<p>You can email him. Please do not be spam. 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