YOU NEED A STORY

I will design IT.

About

ABOUT

Sybil

Collas

I'm a creative director, narrative designer, and writer.

I craft stories - for fiction, for brands, for teams.

Video games, XR, advertising, TV, print, and web are my industries, and I contributed to more than 50 projects over the past 15 years. My forte is devising meaningful player stories through design, aesthetics, and text.

I adore learning new things and facing new challenges: Novelty, social impact, and IPs I enjoy as a player are always sure to grab my interest.

I can help you as a director, consultant, or gamedev.

I look forward to seeing what we will build together!

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Services

Creative Direction

I will give your project and team the vision and guidance needed to stay true to their intentions from start to finish - while navigating potential stakeholders and production constraints.

For shorter missions, use my talents as a project evangelist to sell pitch and design ideas, or polish the intentions and coherence of a project's components. I'm especially good at translating the needs of a client and an audience into ready-to-produce interactive, narrative or creative features!

Writing

I'm a published author with a focus on SFFF (science-fiction, fantasy, fantastique) and an acute sense of worldbuilding. Experienced across several intellectual properties and industries, I can easily adapt to your licence or create one from scratch.

Versed into hard science and stake-centric stories, I'm an accomplished researcher who can efficiently flesh out any kind of world, fictive or not, and use it as a stage for believable characters with simple to complex personalities and interactions. I'm especially fond of the in-detail structuring of plot.

I write in British English, American English, and French. Publications range across all three.

Diversity &Inclusion

As an LGBTQ+ (queer, non-binary) and neurodivergent (autistic, ADHD) designer,
I can provide you with insights on the representation quality of your project or provide tools and observations for its accessibility.

I specialise in the representation of minorities along with the design and implementation of neurological and physical accessibility. While the impact on production is smoother if such a mission is carried out at the beginning of a project, I can also provide you with mid-production or even last-minute sensitivity reading and accessibility devices for a higher level of polish and attractivity.

Evaluation & Doctoring

Along with prose writing, I can provide an in-depth look at your script, interactive or not, linear or not. Ask me if you need a focus on narrative design coherence, scenario structure solidity, character consistency, tone integrity: I will provide detailed feedback with an array of custom-fit solutions.

If you are a publisher or a developer, I can evaluate potential projects for you. I can pinpoint a project's potential for grants and co-production aids and even help with your project's presentation if I am not an expert on the commission you are aiming for ;)

Narrative Design

Do you have a project in concept phase that needs smoother design intentions? A story that wants to exist outside of its dialogues? A burning beta in need of last-minute narrative fireproofing?

My interventions can range from a simple consulting call, to months-long interventions in order to orchestrate a project's narrative components and design coherence, with possible training of your team. I focus on tailoring your player story to what you would like your audience to experience.

Clients

Publishers

Clients

Projects

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Wokshops

Workshops
panels
talks

I'm passionate about sharing my expertise and learning from others.

Public speaking is a domain I enjoy and actively seek: Please never hesitate to reach out for panels, debates and interviews!

I have the honour to be considered a mentor, and write and operate both conferences and training workshops for narrative design and D&I.

Extracts

Where I've talked
and taught

RadioKawa

Where I've talked

Contact

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I'm currently booked until June :)

Feel free to contact me for new projects or just to say hi!

YOU NEED A STORY

I will design IT.

ABOUT

Sybil

Collas

(Almost) Everything I do

Creative Direction

Clients

Publishers

Project showcase

MORE PROJECTS

Workshops panels talks

Where I've talked and taught

RadioKawa

GET IN ToUCH

(Almost)
Everything I do

Workshops
panels
talks

Where I've talked
and taught