KARRIE SHAO
(shirou)
BIO
Karrie Shirou Shao is a Taiwanese-American writer and designer in the video game industry.Shao is the Nebula-nominated and BAFTA-longlisted Lead Writer and Lead Narrative Designer of Pacific Drive, the 2024 best-selling supernatural survival game on PC and PlayStation 5 described as "Stephen King's X-Files in a Station Wagon". The game sold over 1 million copies in the first year of release and has been honored by BAFTA, The Game Awards, and Game Developers Choice Awards. Shao's writing has been nominated for the Nebula Awards (one of the most prestigious science fiction and fantasy writing awards), and has garnered praise as "funny and compelling" by GamesRadar, "exquisite" by ScreenRant, and "heartfelt" by DreadCentral. Pacific Drive is currently in development for television by James Wan at Atomic Monster.Shao is a BAFTA Breakthrough 2024 talent and was one of the first women to write and produce on League of Legends, the most played PC game of all time. During her time at Riot Games, she contributed to champions including Lux, Sona, Ahri, and Talon. She went on to launch over 50 titles in a collection of roles, including production on the multi-million seller Hello Neighbor franchise and marketing leadership on Terra Battle 2 (Final Fantasy creator Hironobu Sakaguchi's independent studio).Shao is a full member of BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts), SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association), and the International Choice Awards Network (ICAN).
PRESS
NARRATIVE & WRITING
⭐ Pacific Drive (Ironwood Studios)
...........Top 10 Best Selling On Steam
...........2024 The Game Awards Nominee - Best Debut Indie
...........2024 BAFTA Game Awards Longlist - Best Narrative, Best New Intellectual Property, Best Game Design, Best Debut Game
...........2024 Nebula Award Finalist for Best Game Writing
⭐ League of Legends (Riot Games)
...........Most Played PC Game of All Time
...........2010 Golden Joystick Winner for Online Game of the Year
⭐ Per Aspera (Tlon Industries / Raw Fury)
...........2020 D.I.C.E. Nominee for Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year
...........2021 BIG Festival Winner for Best Game: Latin America
⭐ Totemic (Collage Games / Humble Games)
⭐ Not Tonight 2 (Panic Barn / No More Robots)
⭐ The Exit Game - The School of Sorcery, The Lab, Villains Lair
...........Most Reviewed Escape Room in Los Angeles
PRODUCTION
🎈 League of Legends (Riot Games)
Tutorial, Co-op vs AI, Dominion🎈 tinyBuild
Hello Neighbor, Graveyard Keeper,
Party Hard, Streets of Rogue🎈 Arc System Works
BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle
2018 The Game Awards Nominee - Best Fighting Game
2018 D.I.C.E. Nominee - Fighting Game of the Year
The MISSING
2018 The Game Awards Nominee - Games for Impact
MARKETING, PR, COMMUNICATIONS
🌠 Annapurna Interactive - Event Production
🌠 Double Fine Productions - Event Production
🌠 Nicalis Inc - The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth - PR
🌠 Grounding Inc - Space Channel 5: Kinda Funky News Flash! - PR
🌠 Funimation - Super Saiyan Showdown, Social Media, Event Production
🌠 MUSTERBRAND - Marketing, PR, Social Media
🌠 Bandai Namco Filmworks Inc - Event Production
🌠 Mistwalker - Terra Battle & Terra Battle 2 - Marketing, PR, Launch
TALKS
📣 Ghosts on the Airwaves:
Caring About Unseen Characters in 'Pacific Drive'
Narrative Summit
Game Developers Conference - San Francisco, Caliofrnia📣 Say Less: How I Learned to Write Less to Do More
Featured Keynote
Games Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 2024
Melbourne, Australia📣 Crafting the Narrative:
The Art and Impact of Narrative Design in Games
Joint talk with JoJo Zhou, Cult of the Lamb
SXSW Sydney 2024 - Sydney, Australia📣 How To Go From "Aspiring" to "Narrative Designer"
LudoNarraCon 2021 - Online
LudoNarraCon's Most Viewed Solo Talk
and 2nd Most Viewed Talk
