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WRITING

Writer & Narrative Designer

Love & Pies (Trailmix Games)

Overview: A narrative-driven merge2 cosy mystery mobile game. Merge items, complete orders, and earn coins to re-do your family's café while uncovering deep secrets and storylines.

My Main Contributions

  • Wrote and implemented episodic, character-driven cutscenes for a live-service mobile game, balancing emotion, humour, and pacing within weekly Live Ops constraints
     

  • Owned seasonal narrative events from concept to release, including Green Game Jam content, ensuring strong character voice, canon consistency, and player engagement
     

  • Enhanced storytelling through non-verbal and environmental narrative, elevating In-Between Cutscenes and moment-to-moment emotional beats

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Duration: 3 years

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Game Designer

Jazz and Azul (Graduate Project)

Writer & Narrative Designer

Jazz and Azul (university project)

Overview: A single-player, story-driven adventure exploring friendship, segregation, and identity through a world divided by jazz and blues music.

My Main Contributions

  • Wrote the game’s full narrative, including script, cutscenes, character profiles, codices, and in-game text.
     

  • Developed distinct character voices and emotional arcs, directing voice acting to ensure tone and authenticity.
     

  • Used thematic and environmental storytelling, grounded in cultural and historical research, to explore identity, division, and connection.

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Duration: 1 year

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Writer & Narrative Designer

Writer & Narrative Designer

TWOSN (Greg Buchanan's Writing Course)

Overview: A branching sci-fi interactive fiction game. Players are dropped into an alien world with no knowledge of who they are, where they are, or why. Player choice determines how they uncover these answers, navigate the world and complete their mission.

My Main Contributions

  • Authored a branching sci-fi narrative in Twine, managing interconnected story paths and player choice.
     

  • Designed player-led discovery and environmental storytelling to control pacing and tone.
     

  • Ensured narrative consistency across all branches through careful tracking of story state and player knowledge.

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Duration: 2 months

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Game Designer

Anti-8 (boardgame - solo dev)

Narrative Designer

Anti-8 (solo boardgame)

Overview: Anti-8 is a fast-paced, two-player board game in which rival arachnologists brave the wilderness simultaneously to capture deadly spiders and claim scientific glory before time runs out.


My Main Contributions​

  • Designed a family-friendly board game where mechanics are directly inspired by real-world spider biology.
     

  • Wrote clear, accessible rules for children (6/7+), using mechanics and visuals as storytelling tools.
     

  • Embedded educational narrative and facts into gameplay, blending competition, learning, and replayability.
     

  • Led solo development, including playtesting, balancing, and project management from concept to completion.

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Duration: 2.5 years

FURTHER PROJECTS

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A Checkmate Tragedy

Overview: The winning submission for the Into Games’ Narrative Design Award. The brief asked for a piece written about the Ancient Greek God Zeus, gloating to another God how he tricked a mortal. The brief wanted to know what that other God’s response was.

Synopsis: Take a peek through the window of time at Zeus and Hera, King and Queen of the Ancient Greek Gods, as they have an interesting conversation over a game of chess.

Duration: 1 week 
 

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Esther's Story

Overview: A short narrative-driven puzzle game made for the Buddy Up Jam: Winter 2022 game jam.

Esther awakens in an unfamiliar house. How did she get there? And more importantly, how will she get out?

Theme: 'BIG'
Made with: Unity

My Roles: Narrative Designer, Producer, and Animator

I conceived the core narrative and gameplay concept of a young girl navigating her world by shrinking and enlarging objects, using scale as both a mechanical and storytelling device. I defined the project’s scope and narrative structure, outlining each scene to ensure gameplay progression, emotional beats, and environmental storytelling aligned across the team.

Duration: 2 weeks

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