CV

PROJECTS

• Yssaia (Ongoing) -- Yssaia is a fantasy political drama worldbuilding multimedia project presented through games, art, videos, merchandising, and writing with 250k+ Word Manuscript Drafted, 2 Fully Released Games, 1 Free Game, 7 Constructed Fictional Languages with 2 Protolangs, realistically derived staple foods, environmentally-sensible fashion, musical styles, theatre history, and engineering practices for every culture, a Punk - Opera performance with interviews with both diegetic and non-diegetic behind - the - scenes documentaries, and an Ongoing YouTube Channel with over 1500 subscribers.

• Unannounced Projects (Unreleased) -- My responsibilities for these narrative-focused games included: designing and implementing content that appealed to various player personas, researching modern methods of tracking player profiles, co-writing the world, lore, characters, and reactive narrative systems with the rest of the incredible three - person narrative team, daily playtesting and following up with leads of different disciplines to tackle known bugs and issues, and fine - tuning controls and systems to increase player immersion and engagement.

• Homestead Arcana (April 2023) -- For this narrative-focused, witchy farming sim with horror and stealth elements, I playtested daily and managed database of bugs and issues. I also iterated upon controls, mini-games, and level design. I additionally researched and advocated for accessibility settings to make it playable by a more diverse player base.

• Magic Spellslingers (2021) -- I playtested, iterated and collaborated on, and wrote art briefs for the Magic Spellslingers digital trading card game.

• Magic: The Gathering® Minigames (2021) -- I playtested a handful of cards from (at the time) unreleased sets as well as designed, wrote, and playtested the Magic: The Gathering® Minigame called "Magic and Minions."

• Dungeons & Dragons (2021) -- Under the tutorship of Chris Perkins and Taymoor Rehman, I studied, wrote, and edited flavor text for the trinkets The Wild Beyond the Witchlight and Curse of Strahd: Revamped Premium Edition.

• Something Wicked This Way Rides (April 2021) - A 23k-word World Guide about imperialism, evolving technology, and power in an alternate version of the Wild West with devils and bone-witches. I wrote, edited, and updated the document to ever-evolving specifications and pitched the final product to other industry professionals.

• Heart of the Philosopher (December 2020) - I wrote the first three routes of this six-route Philosopher Dating Sim, resulting in 18k words of wholesome relationships between the female AI Philosopher King and her guardians Ptahottep, Nietzsche, and Diogenes, with Plato, Kant, and Laozi as side characters.

• Mafiosos of Madness (December 2020) - An RPG-lite co-op game for 1-4 players in a Mafia/Gothic-Horror inspired setting. In the process of creating this game, I balanced character creation, enemies, and event cards to offer a mild challenge and some strategic options—appealing to a target audience of people who like TTRPGs but likely lack the time to actually set them up and play them.

• Ricocheteers/Origins (December 2020) - A Reigns-like, Tinder-inspired Nation-management game. I created, iterated upon, and balanced the 47-cards for a difficult experience you were guaranteed to lose on the first run of this rogue-like system while improving the players' chances of winning over time as the protagonist grew more hopeful. I also programmed and drew the pixel art for the game. Within the limited work capacity and resources of this two-man team, I iterated upon the narrative until there was a clear engagement arc beginning in despair and ending in hope.

• Re: Ricocheteers (December 2020) - A hack-n-slash remake of Ricocheteers (2019). I focused on the narrative of this solo-project, and wrote and implemented the dialogue and cutscenes for this action-oriented, anime-inspired fantasy World War I setting with a strong, diverse cast. I also designed and implemented the combat, enemy AI, levels, and UI/UX.

• Little Burned Maiden (August 2020) - My first professional and commercial release. I wrote all dialogue & text to fashion deep, engaging experience within a limited technical framework. I developed distinct characters and consistent worldbuilding to create both virally memetic and philosophical moments. I implemented all of the programming, art, and sound. My social media marketing campaign sold 40+ copies—meeting predicted lifetime sales based on market research—within the first month.

• The Monument (April 2020) - I organized tasks for the multidisciplinary 16-person team using a scrum board to meet submission deadlines for this action-adventure game. I also wrote and tested 6 of the 9 core scenes in both Twine and screenplay format to maximize their emotional impact.

• Demon in the Circus (December 2019) - A language-learning game about convincing a demon girl who does not speak English to dance in your circus. I taught myself the basics of chatbot design as well as showcased a Conlang I designed.

• Endrest (April 2019) - A 2D horror/puzzle game about a man returning to Endrest Estate to put down the ghosts of his pasts with a magic lantern. I designed the overall engagement arc of this horror game, including enemy encounters, story, and puzzle design, to be within the scope of the 10-minute experience and implemented all 11 levels in our custom engine.

• Ricocheteers (March 2019) - An action-strategy hybrid. I built this game from the ground up by myself--designing, programming, art and sound design. I balanced the design and injected as much flavor and story as I could manage within the 5-minute time limit. I taught myself to program a turn-based system so the game would function.

• SeaSong (April 2018) - A two-player QWOPerative game about sailors restoring the protections of an island through music. I taught myself C# scripting in Unity during the 3-month period we had to build the game and created a functional project by the end of it. Further, I wrote and animated the opening and closing scenes of the game to tell the story in a coherent manner.

• Auri (April 2018) - A two-player, co-op board game about returning the magical jellyfish Auri to the sea. I researched the target demographic, designed the game, and crafted the components by hand.

• Faustian Maze (February 2018) - A two-player, competitive board game in which players must act as rules lawyers to navigate a maze using a devilish contract. This was an individual project.

• The Remedy (January 2018) - A 2-3 player game with only 2 types of cards--poison and remedy. The players had to trade cards in lethal enough dosages to kill the other players. This was an individual project.

• A Girl and Her Shield (December 2017) - A 2-minute dark rhythm game about a girl and her shield. This was a solo-project in which I taught myself to script in Zilch in the proprietary engine of the school in order to build the game. I also designed the game's difficulty curve, managing it to be learned and beaten in minutes to fit the project requirements.

• Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e 6th World Campaign Setting (January 2017) - I wrote a 157-page document detailing a new campaign setting--including 7 races, the geography, history, climate, cultures, and stereotypes of said races, and spellcasting-adjustments to fit the setting--for Dungeons and Dragons 3.5e with a full rebalance of the core classes, two all-new classes, and 55 new feats. I then proceeded to run a 2-year long campaign to test and adjust these changes.