Haris Orkin
aka:
Harris Orkin
Moby ID: 310952
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After receiving a B.A. from Beloit College and an MFA in Creative Writing from USC, Haris soon realized he had no discernible skills with which to make a living. This despite being a finalist in the American Theater Festival for his one act play, Armageddon. Advertising beckoned.
After several years writing and producing award winning radio and television commercials, Haris sold his first screenplay, Save the Dog, which was later produced as a Disney Sunday Night movie.
Haris has written scripts for Universal, Columbia, Twentieth Century Fox, Disney, Disney Feature Animation, and Paramount. His original screenplay, A Saintly Switch was produced for ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney. It was directed by Peter Bogdanovich and starred David Alan Grier and Viveca Fox.
He wrote the script for Dragonshard, a PC game from Atari and Liquid Entertainment. Call of Juarez, a game he wrote for Techland and Ubisoft, was released in 2007. Kane's Wrath, the expansion to the best-selling Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars, was released in 2008. Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3 was also released in 2008 and was nominated for a Writer's Guild of America Award. Call of Juarez 2: Bound in Blood arrived in stores in July, 2009. Dead Island was released in 2011, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and Company of Heroes 2 came out in 2013. Dying Light was released in 2015 and stayed on the top of the sales charts for the next three months.
Haris most recently has been working as a writer and a narrative designer on games for 2K and Sony Computer Entertainment.
Credited on 32 games
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Showgunners (2023, Windows) | Story |
Evil West (2022, PlayStation 5) | Additional Senior Writers |
Resident Evil: Village - Winters' Expansion (2022, Windows) | Scriptwriter |
Kao the Kangaroo (2022, Windows) | Special Thanks |
Shadow Warrior 3 (2022, Windows) | Senior Writer |
Sniper: Ghost Warrior - Contracts 2 (2021, Windows) | Writing |
Ghostrunner (2020, Windows) | Additional Narrative Designers & Writers |
Kingdom Come: Deliverance (2018, Windows) | Script Consultants |
Ruiner (2017, Windows) | Contributing Writer |
Get Even (2017, Windows) | Original Story Concept and Writing |
Mafia III (2016, Windows) | Contract Writers |
Tom Clancy's The Division (2016, Windows) | Additional Writers |
Hard West: Scars of Freedom (2016, Windows) | Additional Writing |
Dying Light: Enhanced Edition - The Following (2016, Windows) | VO Director & Casting |
Hard West (2015, Windows) | Additional Writing |
Dying Light (2015, Windows) | Written by |
Grey Goo (2015, Windows) | Additional Story Development |
Daylight (2014, Windows) | VO Director |
Company of Heroes 2 (2013, Windows) | Script Writers |
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger (2013, Xbox 360) | Written by |
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Frequent Collaborators
People- 9 games with Paweł Błaszczak
- 9 games with Błażej Krakowiak
- 8 games with Paweł Marchewka
- 8 games with Janusz Borkowski
- 8 games with Grzegorz Świstowski
- 8 games with Łukasz Muszyński
- 8 games with Maciej Jamrozik
- 8 games with Marcin Żygadło
- 8 games with Mateusz Piaskiewicz
- 8 games with Piotr Michalczyk
Companies
- 23 games with Valve Corporation
- 9 games with Epic Games, Inc.
- 8 games with Techland S.A.
- 6 games with Side UK Ltd.
- 6 games with ak tronic Software & Services GmbH
- 6 games with GOG Poland Sp. z o.o.
- 5 games with Electronic Arts, Inc.
- 5 games with Ubisoft Entertainment SA
- 5 games with Testronic Sp. z o.o.
- 4 games with Metricminds GmbH & Co KG
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