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Writing Samples

Selected works demonstrating game writing and narrative design skills across dialogue, quest designs, and item descriptions

Quest Design Document
Context: Quest design document for a Cards of Heart questline detailing the summary, characters, overall quest structure and location layout
Highlights
- Organizes high level information on characters, items, and conversations in the quest for engineers and writers
- Created for Cards of Heart, a game focused on using real CBT therapy techniques in a cozy RPG experience

Short Narrative Scene Script
Context: A standalone short piece focused on pacing, voice, and descriptive tone about a captain who rallies his soldiers to save the rest in a fight they've already lost
Highlights
- Focuses on character voice and emotion
- Demonstrates tone and emotional gravity through both dialogue and descriptive action

View Sample: "Cause"

Short Narrative Scene Script
Context: A standalone scene introducing character persona and environmental clues in a humorous tone and a mysterious edge when an explorer and alien-like creature stumble upon an underground world
Highlights
- Light-hearted, enchanting, and charming character voices with a comedic tone and an underlying sense of mystery
- Provides insight into character personality and motivations while also highlighting key environmental elements to encourage exploration

Quest Narrative Documents
Context: Design document outlining a standalone quest storyline, quest log, and all character conversations shaping the player’s journey as they deal with a genetically modified and cybernetically enhanced rooster.
Highlights
- Playful and humorous tone with endearing characters and quest objectives
- Illustrates character personality and accent through multiple conversations and different endings

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Quest Narrative Document
Context: Design document outlining a standalone quest storyline, quest log, and character conversations as it evolves with the player's choices in a difficult moral situation
Highlights
- Sets a serious, grave atmosphere around the player's actions and decision
- Demonstrate emotional gravity and branching narrative management through conversation dialogue and descriptive action

Item and Equipment Descriptive Flavor Text
Context: A list of descriptive text that also provides information about each item's use for fantasy and sci-fi gear, consumables, and curios
Highlights
- Shows contrasts and balance between functional purpose and narrative weight
- Descriptions that explain an item's use easily while also immersing the player in a world that feels lived-in