Ashley Jeffalone is a game writer living and working in Austin, TX.

About

Hi there! I’m Ashley, a lifelong writer who loves branching narrative, dialogue, and player agency.

  • Current: Senior Writer / Project Lead on a branching horror at Adhoc Studio

  • Previous: 31st Union / 2K Games on Project ETHOS, Fishlabs GmbH on Project Black, Adhoc Studio on titles like Dispatch,The Wolf Among Us 2, and Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

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Games

Project ETHOS

Dispatch - Lead Writer - Ep4

Flintlock: The Siege of Dawn

The Wolf Among Us 2

Game Writing Samples

Dialogue-focused Cinematic + Character Interaction Cutscene

  • Written for an adventure game in a sci-fi setting, these scripts demonstrate world building, establish character, and sow interpersonal drama.

Twine

  • A D&D branching sample. Play as an orphan rogue confronted by a familiar face.

Screenwriting Sample

“Do You Have a Light?”

  • An excerpt of a full-length screenplay. Lady Bird meets Melancholia.

    When a cyberattack threatens to take out America’s power grid, everyone is panicking—except for Rowan, an anxious twenty-something that decides to live her best life, pretending that nothing new is happening.

Selected Prose

Fiction

When the Village Goes Hungry

Longleaf Review, 2020

Nominated for Best Microfiction

I Am Not an Actress

X-R-A-Y Literary Magazine, 2020

Shortlisted for SmokeLong Quarterly Flash Fiction Award

Makinig

Third Point Press, 2020

Farewell to Easter Weekend

Wordrunner eChapbooks, 2020

Nominated for PEN/Robert J. Dau Short Story Prize for Emerging Writers

Creative Nonfiction

‘I’ll Take You There’

The New York Times, 2023

What My Mother Taught Me

The New York Times, 2020

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