EarReality

Narrative Designer 

Screenwriter

Paralect

Full writing support for the needs of the company:
- Writing articles and guest posts
- Creating case studies and video scripts
- Writing ads for various online channels
- Interviewing
- Supporting sales, product and marketing activities

Left the company to study full-time for MA Serial Storytelling in Germany

Copywriter

StockBattle

Worked on several web and mobile games aimed at crypto and stock market education. 
- UX writing
- Social media writing
- Blogging

Media Manager

FBS Inc.

- Managing a creative team (6 people) of the traffic department, later - of the FBS Global product, team lead.
- Copywriting for websites, landing pages, offline and online materials of the company in English.
- Creation of creative concepts, UX copywriting
- Editing and proofreading of materials for novice copywriters, training for copywriters

Creative Team Lead / Copywriter 

Heads and Hands

Content marketing and PR for Russian and International markets:
- Strategy planning
- Content marketing (blogging, SMM, ratings, etc.)
- PR
- Online Marketing

Marketing and PR specialist

Reksoft

Marketing Manager

Marketing Assistant

All my life I’ve been a fierce force of imagination, persistence, and hard work: like a dragon hunting for gold. But instead of treasure, I’ve been searching for stories to tell and ways to make an impact.

Born in Belarus, I studied journalism in Bulgaria and worked in marketing in Russia, but storytelling has always been my true passion. I create narratives that allow people to explore fresh perspectives in a safe, immersive way.

As a queer, neurodivergent woman from a patriarchal country, I’m passionate about shedding light on complex topics through my work. Over the years, I’ve designed more than 100 LARP games, written 10+ original tabletop campaigns, and worked as a script supervisor on the short film Mein Name Akim (2024), which tells the story of transgender refugees in Germany.

During my MA in Serial Storytelling at IFS Cologne, I honed my skills across genres, working on solo projects as well as collaborating in Writers' Rooms.

Currently, I’m co-developing a visual novel game with a co-author as a passion project.

Now that I've completed my degree, I’m eager to bring my creativity to TV and gaming, crafting stories in both English and German.

Dragons never stop breathing fire. And neither do I, with an endless flow of ideas and stories I can’t wait to share.

Alena Lysiakova 🐉 🔜 GAMESCOM

In audio games, players can’t scroll back. 


They can’t “check the log.” They’re usually listening while cooking or commuting, not taking notes like a detective.

So if your story relies on the player remembering a random detail from minute 3 to survive minute 22, good luck. Your plot may be brilliant, but the format will eat it alive.

🐲 Audio narrative design has to support memory.

 Not through exposition dumps, but through systems that anchor recall:
+ Recurring motifs (a phrase, a sound, a location)
+ Audio cues that repeat at key moments
+ Mirrored consequences that call back to earlier actions

💡 These are structural tools, not flavor text. They let players remember without needing a rewind button. Because if your story only works when someone can reread it: you didn’t design for audio. You designed for a book.

#NarrativeDesign #AudioGames #StoryArchitecture

Alena Lysiakova 🐉

Narrative designer and screenwriter ▶️ Let's create stories that make an impact

If your characters agree too often, something is wrong. 🎬

Harmony might be great in real life (depending on who you ask), but on the page it’s story poison. When everyone shares the same opinion, makes the same choice, or nods politely in every scene… there’s nothing to watch. No movement. No friction. No reason for us to lean in.

Stories don’t run on plot twists alone 👉  they run on pressure.

Tiny disagreements. Conflicting priorities. One person wanting something now while the other wants it later. A silent “no” that derails a plan without a single shout.

Characters don’t need to scream at each other to create tension. 💡 They just need to want things that don’t align. Even slightly. That’s enough to make a scene feel alive.

🐲 So if your dialogue reads like everyone attended the same group therapy and agreed to be mature about it, throw in a value clash. A boundary. A secret. A refusal that doesn’t look like one.

#Screenwriting #Storytelling #GameWriting

I just finished reading HOW TO WRITE A VERTICAL SERIES IN 10 DAYS by Isabel Dréan, and honestly, it exceeded every expectation I had. 💜 

I went in hoping for a few insights.

What I got was a full, practical roadmap: tasks, exercises, industry guidance, and a crystal-clear breakdown of how to actually enter the vertical series world. It's easy to read, but more importantly, it's easy to apply. 🐲 The book basically screams, “Start now,” and as a screenwriter, that was exactly the push I needed.

Now I know exactly how to structure my vertical series portfolio and how to approach producers with my concepts. Huge thanks to Isabel for creating such a sharp, actionable guide: it immediately earned a place on my “write with purpose” shelf.

👉 If you're a new creator or screenwriter who wants a real, practical entry point into the vertical series industry, this book is a must. 
https://lnkd.in/eaKhHw2w

#Screenwriting #VerticalSeries #BookReview

Some interactive stories love throwing choices at players like confetti.


A choice here, a choice there: none of them actually do anything, but hey, it feels interactive, right? 

🐲 No.

 That’s writing pretend-agency. It’s a novelty menu. It’s decorating the game with buttons that aren’t hooked to anything. 

Real narrative design is systemic.
👉 Choices should connect to variables that influence:
+ relationships (trust, fear, loyalty)
+ difficulty (risk, scarcity, knowledge)
+ consequences (routes, scenes, endings)
+ pacing (when info drops, when tension spikes)

If your branching doesn’t change the system, it’s not interaction: it’s decoration.

💡 Players don’t remember how many buttons you gave them. They remember how their choice changed the world, the character, or the story’s tone. We’re not designing “options.” We’re designing impact.

#NarrativeDesign #GameWriting #AudioGames

Everyone loves saying “games are the new IP goldmine”, until it’s time to adapt one and suddenly half the story disappears and the other half gets rewritten into something no fan recognizes. 🎮📺


So I wrote about what makes good adaptations work.

How to translate gameplay into story, treat worldbuilding like a character, and keep both longtime fans and newcomers hooked without bending the source material into something unrecognizable.

👉 Game Over for Bad Adaptations 
https://lnkd.in/ejp-QaQF

If you care about storytelling across mediums,  this one’s for you.

#Adaptation #Storytelling #Screenwriting

Open article: Game over for bad adaptations by meer.com

Let’s be honest, most early world-building documents look like Pinterest boards in disguise. 👾 

Pretty aesthetics. Moody adjectives. 

But in audio games, vibes won’t save you. 👉 Rules will.

If the player can’t predict how the world behaves, they can’t make meaningful choices.

And if they can’t make meaningful choices… well, what are we even doing here?

Strong audio world-building isn’t about lore dumps: it’s about systems thinking:

🧩 Consistent logic
 Magic works the same every time.
 Social rules don’t change based on a writer’s mood.
 Danger has clear signals that the player can learn.

🔊 Predictable sensory cues
 A sound has a purpose. A silence has a consequence.
 The player should learn the world’s language without needing a codex.

👤 NPCs follow world rules too
 If everyone except the protagonist behaves like they’re in another genre, your world collapses faster than a badly mixed audio cue.

🗺️ Boundaries that define possibility
 The world needs limits. What can’t happen is just as important as what can.
Because a world with vibes but no rules isn’t a world. It’s a mood board with dialogue.

🐲 Design your world like a system, and the player will believe in it instantly.

#NarrativeDesign #Worldbuilding #AudioGames

Writers love to obsess over genre:
 “Is it a drama? A thriller? A dark comedy?”


👉 Here’s a secret: your tone decides that long before your logline does.


Take this:
 A couple argues in a car during a thunderstorm.
 💔 In a drama, it’s the last fight before they break up.
 😂 In a dark comedy, lightning strikes right as one says, “At least things can’t get worse.”
 🔪 In a thriller, someone’s bleeding in the trunk and the argument’s just a cover.

Same setup. Totally different story: all because of tone.

Tone tells your audience how to feel about what’s happening, even before the plot fully unfolds. It’s the lens through which they interpret every line, every silence.

🐲 So before rewriting your script for the tenth time, don’t change the plot. Change the tone. Sometimes it's even more effective.

#Storytelling #WritingTips

Here’s something I learned writing for audio: if you build your episode like a typical visual game, escalating scene after escalating scene, your listeners will mentally check out by minute 12.


Why? 
👉 Because audio burns brainpower faster than visuals.
There’s no UI, no map, no screen to anchor attention. Just the player, their imagination, and whatever chaos you hand them.

That’s why audio episodes need chains, not ladders:
🔗 Repeat anchor points
 A recurring sound, phrase, or location the player can “grab” onto.

🔗 Linked beats instead of vertical escalation
 Scene → consequence → micro-turn → reorientation → next link
INSTEAD OF
Action → Bigger Action → Biggest Action → listener meltdown.

🔗 Reorientation moments
 Tiny resets that say, “Here’s where you are. Here’s what changed.”

🔗 A rhythm, not a sprint
The emotional pulse matters more than the scale of the event.

🐲 Because if your episode structure only works when players can stare at a screen, it won’t survive in audio. 

💡 Design for the listener’s brain, not the writer’s adrenaline.

#NarrativeDesign #AudioGames #StoryArchitecture

EarReality is hosting a free webinar for anyone curious about interactive audio.

🐲 And yes, I’ll be one of the hosts.

Here’s what we’re diving into: 

✅ The TWIST Engine: A clean, no-nonsense intro to the tool we use to build interactive audio stories (the same one I used to write all my audio games).

✅ Business & Publishing Opportunities: self-publishing, collaborations, monetization: the whole ecosystem and how you can actually earn from your stories.

✅ Live Demo: we’ll start with a 30-minute listening session so you can hear what interactive audio feels like before we break down how it’s made.

If you’ve been meaning to try this format, want to explore it for your professional projects, or you’re just audio-curious, this webinar will save you weeks of trial-and-error.

🗓️ The LinkedIn Event link is right below. Seats are capped at 100, so grab yours before it fills up. And if you want to support the event, a like, share, or repost would make my day. 😎

#EarReality #TWIST #NarrativeDesign #Storytelling #InteractiveAudio

Helping Media Companies, Game Studios & Brands Expand Their IP Through Interactive Storytelling | CEO @ EarReality | TWIST Game Engine | Transmedia Strategy | In-Car, Mobile & Web Experiences

🎤 🎧  Finally, we’re hosting a FREE webinar for authors, narrative designers, and brand marketers who want to understand how interactive audio works and how to create it. 🕹️

What the session covers:

✅ TWIST Engine
A clear introduction to the tool we use to create interactive audio stories.

✅ Business Opportunities
How self-publishing, collaborations, and monetization work on TWIST and TWIST Tales.

✅ Practical Demo
We begin with a 30-minute listening session so you can hear an interactive audio story before learning the production workflow.

If you want to create interactive audio, evaluate the format for professional use, or explore future publishing opportunities, this session gives you the essentials.

This webinar is listed as a LinkedIn Event.
The registration link is directly beneath this post.
Seats are limited to 100 participants, so register early to receive the meeting link.

If you want to support the event, feel free to like, share, or repost 😎 

#EarReality #TWIST #marketing #storytelling #games #gaming #stories #audiobooks #audio #RPGs #writing #books #narrativedesign

Christian Mahnke, Anastasiia Chetverikova and 28 other attendees

View event: EarReality Webinar: The Business of Interactive Audio & TWIST - Part 1

EarReality Webinar: The Business of Interactive Audio & TWIST - Part 1

🐲 Just a quick reminder: this week we’re hosting our interactive audio webinar: a deep dive into TWIST, storytelling tools, and how creators can actually publish and monetize their work in this format.

If you’re curious about interactive audio or want to explore new opportunities as a writer, narrative designer, or creator, join us. 🎧🔥

#NarrativeDesign #InteractiveAudio

⏰ Starting in ONE hour! 🎧🎤


Our webinar on interactive audio storytelling and the business behind it is about to kick off.

If you’ve been curious about how interactive audio works, how creators can actually publish and monetize their stories, or what the TWIST Engine looks like behind the scenes… this is your chance to join live.

 🔗 https://lnkd.in/ek5wHQJ2

See you there: bring your questions and your curiosity. 🎧 🐲 

#InteractiveAudio #Storytelling

Rosendo Travieso ⭕️

BT Group

• Defined product vision, strategy, and roadmap for BT Active Intelligence Data and AI Products.
• Led and mentored a team to deliver valuable products, marketing strategies, and sales enablement plans.
• Collaborated with Product Managers, Business Analysts, and Data Scientists to drive product innovation.

Head of Product Management - BT Active Intelligence - Etc.

Productia Consulting

- Define Product strategy, mission, vision, OKRs
- Build product culture 
- Manage Product teams 
- Recruit talent and expand teams.

Product Advisor & Fractional CPO 

Product Partners France

Co-Founder

Out There Media

Leading the definition and execution of the product strategy for a mobile AdTech scaleup.  The SaaS platform runs in 15 countries across Europe, Africa and AsiaPac to deliver innovative mobile advertising services to Ad Agencies, brands and Mobile Operators. Managing a high performing multinational team of Product Managers, designers and data analysts. 

• Implemented a product lifecycle management across development, design and data to deliver on the North Star product vision and roadmap. 
• Improved metrics of success (Audience engagement, CTRs and Ad completion)
•Implemented an AI conversational bot into the SaaS platform to increase engagement and attention value.   

Member of the Senior Leadership Team -reporting to the CEO.

Chief Product Officer

Responsible for the definition of the product vision, strategy, and roadmap execution of the NXT SaaS Platform across EMEA and APAC.

Defined and implemented performance KPIs to track usage, adoption, engagement and revenue growth delivering a CSAT of 90% and NPS 75.

Built and mentored a distributed agile product and experience team of 15 based in Paris, London, Frankfurt and Madrid. 

Reporting to the EMEA Chief Digital Officer.

Vice President Product

Momentum London

Mentoring support and product team training for high-tech scale-ups to expand and implement agile methodologies. 

Organised Product Masterclasses, Product and Business Model Audits and mentoring sessions.

Lecturer & Startup mentor

Kinetic Worldwide

Leading the product strategy for Out of Home programmatic planning, trading and analytics products suite of Out of Home AdTech solutions. 

•	Delivered the Programmatic Planning and Automated Trading global product with direct integration with Exchanges, PMPs, DMPs, Space, Route and WPP legacy billing systems (Kinetic Journeys/ Aureus 2.0+).

•	Owned the development of the global roadmap across EMEA.

•	Managed a team of product and UX designers together with an offshore development team.

•	Led the development of new standards and integration of OpenRTB across the advertising industry (OpenDirect, OpenData for OOH Performance).

•	 Digital Evangelist across Kinetic. Member of the Senior Leadership Team, reporting to the UK Chief Operating Officer.

Head of Advertising Programmatic Products

Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield

Responsible for management of a portfolio of Retail Digital Products and Services to increase revenue, visitation and dwell at the Centres.  

•	Developed the digital products strategy and roadmap across EMEA for Online and Mobile applications achieving the digital transformation targets set by the business.	 

•	Supervised, mentored and coached a team of agile product and UX owners using agile tools. Delivered improved team productivity and reduced turnover. 

•	Designed, delivered and managed multichannel ecommerce products: Food Ordering, Smart Parking, Product Search, Bookable Services & Ticketing. 

•	Conducted competitive market research analysis and positioning. Identified key opportunities, segment & acorn targeting and personalisation to increase revenue growth.

•	Crafted the Value Report KPI dashboard to track all digital product measures of success, quality and performance metrics (revenue, funnel, AOV, etc.)

•	Delivered Product Search to increase visitation at the centres and generate affiliated revenues. 

•	Digital Evangelist across Westfield. Reporting to the CMO.

Head of Product Management 

Telefónica Tech

Global mobile products and services leader responsible for the vision, design and deployment of global mobile platforms (PaaS) to customers in 20 countries generating revenues in excess of €20m across the multinational segment P&L (Shadow P&L €680m). 

•	Managed and developed a large team of international product managers, UX designers and developers (UK & Spain) including training and performance reviews. Improved productivity by aligning documentation and ways of working with UK teams.  

•	Designed and deployed Telefónica Blue: a Secure Mobile HD Voice over IP mobile app with voice conferencing increasing MAU by 20% (1,700 users).

•	Deployed a Universal Wi-Fi mobile app (http://bit.ly/1c9vDuG); a zero-touch worldwide Wi-Fi aggregation app that allows using any commercial wi-fi service in the world. Monthly active users: 3,500+ lines.

Global Head of Mobile Products

Responsible for the product lifecycle management services for multinational products and services (B2B and B2B2C segments) supporting the multinational segment P&L. 

•	Launched the Managed Mobility Global Service in more than 20 countries delivering a YoY revenue uplift of 8%.
•	Improved the rating of the Global Mobile Services by Industry Analysts from Challenger to Visionary (Gartner). 

•	Produced all Sales & Marketing materials and technical presales support with the Head of Mobile. Supported consultative selling with Sales and Pre-Sales teams to achieve sales targets.

Managed Mobility Product Manager

O2 (Telefónica UK)

Served as product/project manager, designing and delivering Consumer Digital Products Portfolio Projects (B2C) for the O2UK residential market (Prepay+Contract). 

Achievements: 
•	Deployed the ‘O2 More’ (Priority) proposition, a permission-based advertising service using aggregated customer data to deliver targeted messaging and offers reaching 10 million customers by 2012.

•	Launched ‘O2 Bluebook’, a service that enabled customers to back up and store all the valuable information held on their mobile phones. The service managed to reach 500,000 users with 1.5m+ messages per day being submitted during peak usage of the service.

Senior Product Manager

CPO / VP Product | Product Leader | AdTech, Telecoms, Proptech

As the Head of Product at BT Active Intelligence, I lead the definition and execution of the product strategy for Location Intelligence products that deliver data services to Transport, Government and Ad Agencies and brands in the UK. 

I have over 10+ years of experience in building and managing data-driven products and teams in the AdTech, Telecoms, and Proptech sectors.

My core competencies include product lifecycle management, product roadmap definition and delivery, global team management, agile methodologies, UX and CX design, web and mobile apps, and multilingual communication. I am passionate about creating products that solve real problems, generate value, and delight customers. 

Fluent in English, Spanish and French.  

Skills
• Product Management
• Innovation and Strategy
• Product Roadmap definition and delivery
• Global Team Management (OKRs setting and Performance Reviews)
• Agile experience as Product Owner (Scrum, XP, Kanban, Jira, Confluence)
• UX experience and CX design (Figma)
• Web and Mobile Apps (iOS, Android) 
• Multilingual

Fractional CPO and Product Advisor

Advertising workflows have been quite static and suitable for quarterly planning, the issue is that we have a weekly feed of data to optimise activation..

This is what I am starting to see: Agentic AI systems that pair two critical layers:

-MCP (shared context and permissions)
-A2A (intelligent agent coordination)

The issue is that we obsessively focus on speed without control. This is the best definition of expensive chaos(!)

Instead: 
->Orchestrate high-stakes work (brand campaigns, pricing, legal)
->Choreograph routine tasks (email variants, A/B tests, asset optimisation)
->Finops process as a human in the loop: keep this guardrail untouched because replacing a £50K human with £100K of agent compute makes little sense

What this looks like in practice:
Stop using linear workflows and artifacts that break when conditions shift. 

Create specialist agents that:
Draft channel-specific copy
Verify claims and brand voice
Rebalance budgets from live performance data
Decide when to centralise vs. distribute work
>>>All operating within defined budgets, roles, and audit trails.

Key risks to manage:
Uncapped agent conversations = silent budget bleed
Black box decisions that executives can't defend - where's my XAI? 
Local optimisations that create system-wide harm

How to validate: 
Pick a low-risk, high-learning & reward area. 
Measure everything. 
Keep humans in charge of taste, trust, and brand decisions. 
Build traces so you can replay any decision.

The technology is ready, the issue is can you use it and apply it with discipline?

CPO / VP Product/ Product Leader | Data Intelligence & AI, AdTech, Fintech, Proptech

OpenAI rolling advertising looks likely but the path to implementation will be complex and uncertain.

Let me explain: 

So, what’s the legal basis to send me ads when I asked the GPT for a snoopy cartoon picture and it suggested me a branded product? 
Is there a legitimate interest or consent to use personal data from chatGPT conversations?  
I am not sure.

In any case I would expect a clear and informed choice to consent.  Maybe something like pay for ad-free experience like Meta? T&Cs should tell users how data is used as part of the transparency principle. 

The other issue that will be most difficult to address is the right of erasure.  How will OpenAi manage the removal of personal data from LLMs training models will be challenging.

The last area will be about accuracy and liability. Ads or product recommendations generated by AI must be accurate and not misleading. Advertisers and the platform can be held liable for false or unsubstantiated claims in AI-generated ad content, as AI "hallucinations" can lead to factual errors. 

In the meantime, expect new T&Cs and a big announcement to plug the code red funding hole at OpenAI ..

RIP Martin Parr, a gifted artist that spend his life inspiring and supporting young and aspiring documentary photographers including my son.  

Hope you have a camera where you are .. hope to see those pictures one day

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CEO: are we ready for the Halloween and Christmas product campaigns? 

PM: Hold my beer

If you only have time for one webinar this week attend this one … thank me later

Looking forward to what’s ahead in mobility analytics? So am I.
Tomorrow, I will be speaking about how Agentic GIS is set to transform mobility analytics. Alongside brilliant speakers Simon Wrigley and Sumesh Jagtani, we’ll show how this technology is making complex mobility analysis more accessible and intuitive; whether you’re a data scientist, business strategist, or just keen to unlock new possibilities. It’s all about discovering insights faster and working smarter together.
Looking forward to seeing you there tomorrow! Don’t forget to register

https://lnkd.in/eTTysqEp

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