Here are some facts about Greg Buchanan:

• He likes writing and playing and talking about games

• He wrote the BAFTA-winning NO MAN’S SKY, the BAFTA-nominated AMERICAN ELECTION, in addition to 20+ games across AAA, mobile, indie, VR, and more

• He writes TTRPG scenarios in collaboration with publishers (such as DARK SOULS: THE EYES OF DEATH) and his own adventures, the first of which will be announced soon

• He was a voice director on Divinity: Original Sin 2

• He was in Forbes 30 under 30 2019 and GamesIndustry.Biz Top 100 2018.

• Life went downhill after 2019, alas. He grew over the age of 30 and the Sunset Squad came for him.

• For advice about how to get into games writing and a newsletter of game writing jobs/resources, please visit his other site www.writinginteractive.com. He also teaches several workshops on interactive narrative.

• He is the bestselling crime novelist of SIXTEEN HORSES and CONSUMED. A television series is currently in development with Gaumont, the studio behind Hannibal and Narcos

• He answers questions about ‘what happened’ in a particular element of his stories by asking the questioner what they think happened. This is almost always correct

• People keep asking him if he’s working on No Man’s Sky. He usually says ‘no, not anymore’. Usually this is true. This is true as of when he wrote this.

• He is afraid of eating oranges, he does not know why. Apples are OK

• He participates in Magic: The Gathering and Lorcana tournaments. He prefers midrange playstyles. Please play the expensive card games with him. He’s not really good enough to actually join those tournaments, you see, but he tries hard.

• He is a former bookseller (the store was eventually turned into the set of a television show about the sale of mobile phones)

• He used to work on a farm during lambing and summer time (one pet orphan lamb imprinted upon him and followed him around daily, nicknamed Drogo for the prodigious strength he wielded against the other poor pet lambs who wanted to hang out)

• His favourite colour alternates between red and blue. It used to just be blue. He is not sure if this means he has somehow declined in a moral sense.

• He is a British and Irish citizen, raised in England by Scottish and Irish parents

• He lives in Scotland, formerly in the Borders and now in the midbelt

• He is married to a veterinary surgeon and steals her jokes

• He has two cats named Bucket and Table, who are very good boys

• He is a volunteer behaviourist with the charity Cat’s Protection, helping rehabilitate and socialise local shelter cats while they wait for adoption. He puts videos of these cats in his newsletter

• He is medicated for combined-type ADHD and is a known enthusiastic talker

• His hobbies include card games, painting, theatre, and creating furniture

• He is a former academic, having studied English and then American Literature at the University of Cambridge; his PhD in identification and ethics at King’s College London; his MA in Prose Fiction Creative Writing at UEA; and writing on the work of experimental novelists such as B.S. Johnson with the same publisher who would one day release Sixteen Horses (Macmillan)

• He likes going to Disneyland, much like the previous heir to North Korea

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