Matthew Willis is a game writer, screenwriter and story editor. From 2024-2025, he was the Game Writer at Evil Empire in Bordeaux, France where he wrote The Rogue Prince of Persia (published by Ubisoft, Winner of the 2026 Pégases "Best First Game") and the recently announced Castlevania: Belmont's Curse (published by Konami). He worked with the French narrative design studio Actzéro on three games (Empire of the Ants, MIO and Skygard Arena) and was the Head Writer for the mobile-games Idle Distiller, Sports Playoff Idle Tycoon and Monster Country Idle (KANO Applications). When he's not working on video games, Matthew is script doctoring and writing screenplays, having worked on over 80 individual productions. See his IMDB profile for a full list of his credits.


Canadian-born, Matthew is based in Bordeaux, France. He speaks English and French. 

The Dewdrop •

To Walk the Stones - Travel Essay

DARKNESS. A FEW MINUTES FOR adjusting eyes did nothing. Light had no place in the hall. Wooden beads ran along the unseen wall, my only guide. They shepherded me around clumsy corners to a literal light at the tunnel’s end. A single bulb. It shone a focused beam, somehow keeping everything else in total darkness. As I approached, the light grew bigger, wider, round like an iris. The bulb hovered above a stone: a round tablet, the Sanskrit rune for “heart” carved onto the surface.