Title, Dates, Engine & Language

• Gameplay Programmer, Narrative Designer & Tech Artist
• Feb 2025 - August 2025
• Unreal // C++

Links

• Itch
• 5 Page Tutorial Script
• One Liners

Role Summary

• Wrote tutorial script and one-liners for Grant Boom, crafting dialogue that guided players during onboarding while reinforcing the game’s satirical tone.
• Built AI behaviors for three enemy types.
• Created a templated objective system.
• Refactored the UI to remove inefficiencies, resolve bugs, and improve user feedback.
• Developed a dialogue subsystem driven by data tables.
• Implemented a wave-based encounter system powered by data assets and EQS tests.
• Utilized gameplay tags to drive environment queries and dialogue triggers.
• Constructed an event bus and interface helper functions to fully decouple gameplay events.
• Architected a hierarchical class structure for all game systems.
• Crafted shaders for enemy attacks and environmental effects.

Title, Dates, Engine & Language

• Writer, Director, & Editor
• Oct 2023
• Unreal

Links

5 Page Opening Cinematic Script

Role Summary

• Authored multiple drafts of the game’s five-page opening script, shaping tone, character motivations, and player-facing narrative beats.
• Collaborated in a writers’ room, incorporating feedback and contributing notes on other writers’ material.
• Developed blocking and shot intentions for the two key pages selected for cinematic adaptation.
• Directed the full motion-capture session, guiding actors, camera operators, and the capture team to achieve narrative and performance goals.

Title, Dates, Engine & Language

• Gameplay Programmer, Technical Narrative Designer, Tech Artist & Level Designer
• Oct 2025
• Unreal // C++

Links

• 5 Page 3-Act Script
• Github
• Itch

Role Summary

• Developed a three-page script detailing Miki’s journey to prove Pixel fits into her family, highlighting themes of how love grows through both challenges and shared experiences.
• Built a narrative system driven by data-assets.
• Implemented efficient sliding-window match-detection for large grids.
• Rapidly prototyped core gameplay loop including swaps, gravity, and chain reactions.
• Programmed an event-driven UMG UI system with minimal redraws for smooth feedback.
• Utilized gameplay tags to drive environment queries and dialogue triggers.
• Developed an object-pooling system for block animation meshes to reduce allocation overhead.
• Designed a fully data-driven configuration system for grid size, scoring, spawn rates, and win conditions..
• Crafted shaders for UI.

Controls

• Dialogue Scrolling: Move your cursor over the dialogue window and use the mouse wheel to scroll through longer dialogue lines and available response choices.
• Selecting Options: Click to choose dialogue responses, pick dice, or activate interface buttons.

Title, Dates, Engine & Language

• Gameplay Programmer, Technical Narrative Designer & Level Designer
• May 2024
• Twine // Sugarcube

Links

• Itch

Role Summary

• Co-wrote and implemented a branching narrative about a dock worker with aquaphobia who infiltrates a floating casino to steal a rare book from his childhood bully before it is auctioned off.
• Designed and built a fully customized SugarCube-based narrative system functioning as a single-document screenplay with knots, diverts, event triggers, and persistent state tracking.
• Engineered a dice-based task resolution mechanic, assigning variable success probabilities and gating progression through player-driven skill checks.
• Developed procedural dice-collection tasks and success conditions that modified the player’s available outcomes and narrative branches.
• Constructed all game logic, UI behavior, and narrative flow within three Twine passages—Main Menu, StoryInit, and the core game runtime—minimizing overhead and maximizing maintainability.
• Implemented custom JavaScript systems for event management, variable tracking, progression flags, and modular story functions.
• Authored CSS for bespoke UI styling including interactive panels, transitions, and readability-focused visual design.

Title, Dates, Engine & Language

• Narrative Designer
• Feb 2024
• Godot // C#

Links

• GGJ Submission Page

Role Summary

• Co-wrote all splash-art cutscene dialogue showing Seymour’s struggle to control invasive thoughts and win Shirley’s heart, emphasizing that humor is a superpower—but being laughed at can be a curse.
• Co-designed a modular narrative pipeline using randomized word-pool operators and multi-stage prompts to generate reactive humor.
• Co-authored 130+ dialogue templates across positive and negative gameplay events, each serving as standalone jokes and procedural structures for recombining nouns and verbs.
• Built sentence frameworks, grammar rules, and operator behaviors ({0n}, {1v}, etc.) to ensure templates didn't require code level edits.
• Developed a noun taxonomy (~60 nouns) and verb pool (~100 verbs) supporting absurdist office-comedy interactions.
• Ensured randomized lines remained clear and funny, yielding ~420,000 unique dialogue combinations during play.

Title, Dates, Engine & Language

• Gameplay Programmer & Narrative Designer
• Nov 2024 - Feb 2025
• Unity 6 // C#

Links

Role Summary

• Designed and implemented a weapon selection and status UI.
• Co-wrote a three-act beat sheet and cutscene scripts.
• Built a narrative system to trigger cutscenes and dialogue.
• Developed a responsive input system using Unity’s Input System that handled combat, movement and UI navigation.
• Implemented combat and ability systems.
• Developed spell shaders including black hole, freeze, and shockwave effects.