Services

Brunette Games is the business entity now solely operated by me: Expert game consultant and narrative designer Lisa Brunette. Building on 30+ years’ experience as a professional storyteller and nearly two decades in the game industry, I craft the characters and stories for some of the entertainment industry's top game studios, helping my clients develop hit games for billions of players worldwide.

I design

• Game narrative arcs

• Cutscene director’s storyboard notes

• Task and quest layouts

• Branching dialogue systems

• Choice statistic systems

• Character and clothing concepts

• World settings

• Environmental art and level concepts

• Story/puzzle integrations

• Tutorial flows

• Narrative ad campaigns and ancillary narrative content

I write

• Character dialogue scripts

• Cutscene dialogue

• Tutorial messaging

• UI messaging

• Player-feedback dialogue

• Game, character, and feature names, bios, lore, and other in-game text

• Ad campaign materials (vignette outlines, scripts, etc.)

I do NOT use

• AI writing in any of my deliverables

• AI to edit my game text

• AI in my newsletter content

Studio accomplishments

• Finalist for the 2023 PocketGamer Award for Best Service Provider, and for Game of the Year for Wild Things, a title I wrote and designed for client Jam City for the Netflix platform.

• Responsible for the narrative on hundreds of games, many of them top-performing, genre-defining hits, including Merge Mansion, Lily's Garden, and Matchington Mansion.

• Expertise spanning all casual-mobile genres: color sort, hidden object, match-3, slots, merge, jigsaw, bubble popper, and many others.

• Experience designing and writing deep interactive novels with branching dialogue, including the first mystery novel published in the Choices app.

• Recently expanded into wellness apps (Mood Bloom) and subscription-based games for the Netflix and Apple platforms.

• Clients include large, well-established studios (Jam City, Metacore, and others), as well as talented up-and-comers (Ace Games, ZiMAD, etc.). Their games consistently rank in the top 500 in the app-store charts and are played by billions worldwide.

• My credits include some of the best IPs in the world, most notably M&M'S, Family Guy, and Disney's Frozen.

• I’ve been called a “legend” and “rock star” in the game industry, with 30+ years’ experience spanning entertainment, publishing, and management.

• I headlined GDC as a speaker back in 2012 and have presented at numerous industry conferences, including MAGCon, PixelPop, and Casual Connect. I regularly author design articles and have served as a podcast guest via PocketGamer, ironSource, and other venues.

• I’ve been named an industry influencer, with appearances in a high-profile documentary, my work cited in academia.

Final word

My clients are very successful when they trust my experience and deep understanding of the casual-game audience. My track record of hit games showcases my superior skills as a narrative designer, and I find the best games emerge when I can fully collaborate with talented, innovative artists, animators, and game-mechanics designers.

I look forward to crafting stories your players will love!