Chella Ramanan, narrative designer (Tales of Windrush; Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora)

My guest today is a writer and narrative designer for independent and blockbuster video games. Born in London she studied English Literature at Kingston University, then completed her postgrad in journalism. She worked as a freelance writer, contributing to the Guardian and the BBC , often covering in games and the lack of representation of people of colour within the industry. In 2014 she took a course titled ‘Writing For Games’, which resulted in ‘ Before I Forget ’, an affecting indie game in which you play as a dementia sufferer. In 2020 she joined Massive Entertainment , the Swedish developer of The Division series, to work as a senior narrative designer on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora , an open world action-adventure game based on the James Cameron-directed Avatar films. She is also writing Windrush Tales , a narrative video game about the triumphs and tribulations of two Caribbean immigrants to post-war Britain, in the world’s first Windrush-themed video game. Play the console: Beneath a Steel Sky Tony Hawk's Pro Skateboarding City of Heroes Virginia What Remains of Edith Finch Thank you for listening to My Perfect Console. Please consider becoming a Patreon supporter; your small monthly subscription will help to make the podcast sustainable for the long term, and you'll receive bonus content, and access to the My Perfect Console community: https://www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Become a My Perfect Console supporter and receive a range of benefits at www.patreon.com/myperfectconsole Take the Acast listener survey to help shape the show: My Perfect Console with Simon Parkin Survey 2025 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.