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Ryan
Galletta
Narrative Director · Screenwriter
Two decades writing stories for some of entertainment's biggest IPs: the Batman Arkham series, Assassin's Creed, Dungeons & Dragons, and more.
Open to: game narrative / television
Selected credits / Games
Become a lethal shinobi Assassin and a powerful, legendary samurai on a journey of discovery across feudal Japan. Directed the narrative of the fourteenth mainline Assassin's Creed and a full slate of post-launch story content, with a team spread across three continents.
Watch: "My heart belongs to Tsuyu, but my blood is Igan" ↗A young, unproven Batman hunted through Gotham by eight assassins on Christmas Eve — and his first collision with the Joker. Writers Guild of America Award nominee, Outstanding Achievement in Videogame Writing.
Watch: "Don't add me to the weight you carry" ↗ Watch: "Can't you just play along?" ↗ Watch: review ↗Rediscover the origins of Mr. Freeze after he crashes a New Year's Eve party at Wayne Manor — a faithful adaptation of Paul Dini's Emmy Award–winning Batman: The Animated Series episode, "Heart of Ice."
Watch: "Threats are meaningless to a man who has lost everything" ↗ Watch: "Nothing matters — nothing but my Nora" ↗Drizzt Do'Urden and the Companions of the Hall carve their way across Icewind Dale in a co-op action brawler set in one of fantasy's most beloved worlds.
Watch: "Dragon looks hungry, b'ys!" ↗Two new campaigns on the Western Front — the British Second Army's fight for Caen and Panzer Elite's defense of Operation Market Garden — for the most decorated RTS franchise of its era.
Watch: "Is that an Allied cow, mein Herr?" ↗The Blacklist, the pursuit, the pink slip — street racing's most-wanted list, told at two hundred miles an hour in one of the best-selling entries in EA's flagship racing franchise.
Watch: "We have a code-6, party failing to stop for police" ↗…by far the best writing to-date in a Batman game.— Adam Sessler, Rev3 Games · Watch: full review ↗
Properties / Graphic Novels
Stories I own, or helped bring to the page.
Christmas of the Dead
Creator & Writer
When zombie-elves kidnap the world's naughty children, an angsty teenager must form a tenuous partnership with a jaded elf to reach the North Pole and save his bratty little brother — and the rest of the naughty kids — from becoming part of the zombie-elf Christmas Eve feast. The problem is, the elf doesn't think the brats deserve saving.
The Ark of Arromar
Creator & Writer
When the son of a failed explorer finds a message in a bottle from the father who never came home, he must overcome years of shame, retrace his father's journey, discover the truth of what happened — and complete the journey his father never could.
Aluna: The Fire Within
Writer · Allegory
Aluna is a young girl who prefers swordplay to dancing — a temper that gets her into trouble with the Spanish nobility of the 1500s. When a desperate conquistador burns a witch brought back from the New World, Aluna gets a glimpse of a hidden power within her, and must accept it to stand against an ancient high priest who wants her dead.
Background / About
Whenever I'm asked what I do for a living, "I'm a writer" barely seems to cover it. I work in video games, but say that and the usual response is "Oh, you write code." No. I write stories! For games, for television, for graphic novels.
I've spent more than twenty years doing it, most recently as the Narrative Director on Assassin's Creed Shadows. Along the way I've built and led narrative teams, directed voice and cinematics, adapted some of the most recognizable IP in entertainment, and been nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award.
A producer once told me I'm the only writer he'd ever met who didn't like to write. Well, sure — I'm not interested in hitting a word count; I'm interested in evoking an emotional response, and knowing when the right word is no word at all.
I'm a lifelong history nerd. I love sci-fi, fantasy, and gaming, whether it's on a PC or at the tabletop. I once crewed a 75-foot catamaran in the British Virgin Islands. I've traveled across the US and spent time in France and Sweden. I've lived in Ontario and BC, and now call Québec City home, where I've run two marathons and am working toward my third.
Currently developing an original limited series for television.