Games Writing Portfolio

About

Westin is a narrative designer, consultant, games writer, novelist, screenwriter and reformed comedian with decades of experience writing across a range of mediums.

In addition to vast experience building rich, complex worlds and populating them with memorable characters, he is an experienced sales and marketing manager, filmmaker, and amateur dancer (open style).

Samples

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A pair of designed and written side missions for Square Enix’s mobile Just Cause game. These missions showcase unique new NPCs and franchise favorites like Mario, while using new-to-the-franchise game mechanics.

An unproduced short action-comedy “pilot” for the legendary Channel 101 film festival. A big love letter to all sorts of martial arts adventures, from Karate Kid to Mortal Kombat to Bloodsport.

A short character study excerpt from the space opera novel Tellermoon. Like other portfolio samples here, this section is both a nod to the great corporate sci-fi dirtbags of yore (Aliens, Robocop), and an attempt to humanize and subvert the trope.

A short excerpt from a sci-fi horror spec pilot. This excerpt depicts numerous characters reacting as the main character believably (in the writer’s opinion) investigates a supernatural event.