Skills and Experience
MY GAMES
Role: Product Owner, Narrative Designer, UI/UX Designer
Tools: Unity, Meta Quest VR, Physiology Engine
The Game:
A PC/VR medical training simulator, capable of hosting customizable training session for up to 3 VR players, anywhere in the world. Utilizes a clinically validated physiology engine to create lifelike responsive patients.
Created with VirtualiSurg and Draeger.
Core Contributions:
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Product Owner - Managed the development lifecycle of the project.
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Narrative Design - Collaborated with top doctors for clinical accuracy.
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UX/UI Designer - Developed feature docs and interfaces.
Major Challenges:
SimLabs takes a daring approach to medical simulation by attempting to create a completely open-ended training experience, where the PC instructor controls the training environment for VR users.
Ensuring each training module felt open required extensive modular design, effectively building an ecosystem of medical actions that could be used to create new cases all their own.
Role: Sole Creator
Tools: Twine Harlowe
The Game:
A simple life-sim game across 7 years in which players are stuck in a prisoners dilemma with two NPC characters. Play a story across 7 years in which your decisions affect the moral compass of others.
Major Challenges:
This project was written in Harlowe, a pass by value language for Twine. This made yearly progression of the story, and handling of the many world variables, a difficult thing to track and maintain. However, keeping the systems simple allowed me to instead focus on interplay between them. This allowed the coding to be easier, the systems to be more elegant, and the impacts on gameplay to feel exponential.
I plan to regularly update Winds of Fortune.
Role: Game Designer, 3D Modeler, Level Designer, Project Manager
Tools: Roblox Studio, Lua
The Game:
A simple tycoon project for CreationCamp's live stream community, created during our first game jam event.
Core Contributions:
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3D Modeling - Created medieval and sci-fi asset packs
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Tech Art - Created particle systems
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Game Design - Balanced game economy for long term play
Major Challenges:
This project was effectively my first attempt at a 'live-service' approach. Since this project was intended to be a through-line for all our streams, we could only make gradual progress on it while we developed other game jams. Our solution for this was to establish this environment as a 'hub-world' with expensive milestone purchases that could 'unlock' the other game jams.
MY WRITING
Go somewhere new, I hope that you do. Wherever you wander, I'll wander with you.
Load up your pack and tie up your shoes. Let’s go ‘til we're certain we've seen the world through.
Go somewhere new, I hope that you do. Wherever you roam, I'll be roaming there too.
Let's trek through a desert or board with a crew, or climb up a mountain to take in the view.
Go somewhere new, I hope that you do. From fields that are green to skies that are blue.
Let's take to the rivers inside a canoe, or travel a forest of poplar and yew.
Go somewhere new, I hope that you do. Whatever adventure you want to pursue.
I've got us a map, you make us a route. So join me and journey, to go somewhere new.
The following are select sections from my novel, which tells a non-linear fantasy story through short poems and moments in time. I encourage you to explore the poems as an adventurer would.
Rakenthia
Have you quenched your thirst yet? Your unrelenting drive?
If not then you have got to go to where the mighty thrive.
A home for every hero, no matter what their size
If adventure is your life, prepare to feel alive.
The Shield Isles
The grass is seldom greener. The skies are seldom blue.
Here the Isles beckon as they seek to welcome you.
The water whispers sweetly and roars in mighty tides,
It cries to all the brave and goads the daring few to dive.
Market Town
Listen for the lunchtime bell,
The people ‘round here know it well.
They stop their job and wolf their food
And find another task to do.
Lookout for the lunchtime rush
Cause it'll snatch and sweep you up
As people move, with single mind,
To earn each dollar they can find.
Live for every lunchtime break,
And make the choice to push and take
Another quest, a little more,
To reach an even higher floor.
Listen for the lunchtime bell.
Know your jobs, and do them well.
Race your rats and track your time.
Welcome to the working grind.
Cherry Wood
Far away a figure stood
In the dark of Cherry Wood.
Never did I wander near,
For evil things still linger here.
The trees are red, the snow is white.
The moon is seldom seen at night.
I tell you there is nothing good
In the dark of Cherry Wood.
Arcer
Chock-full of cops and criminals,
The city sleeps. Within its walls
Are schemes and secrets in pursuit
To leave the bank vaults destitute.
And to the keen detective's eye,
The scheme unfolds, while line by line
A notebook fills till quitting time,
When robbers once again supply,
The case to crack, the riddle's key,
To Sherlock's solving mysteries.
Then once again the city sleeps,
To wake anew, and then repeat.
Rituals
Fetch the trinkets, clean the tools,
Prep the altar, read the rules,
Get it right or suffer dear
For evil things still linger here.
Burn the incense, speak the phrase,
Light the mound and watch the blaze.
Do not let them smell your fear,
For evil things still linger here.
Misty Molly
Myra murdered Misty Molly
Early Monday morning
It fit that rain was falling
When she shot her without warning
Myra made her message, meant for
Mobsters near and far:
Beware the mage named Myra,
And her mirrors most bizarre.
She ran through raging raindrops
As she fled from Arcer's gate.
She should have checked on Molly
But Miss Moonstone couldn't wait.
And there the mobster's boss was found
Still dying in dismay.
But Misty Molly'd come around,
Another rainy day.
Ferngulch
Can you hear it murmur? There's something in the air.
In every drifting maple leaf, there's something special there.
A place to simply wander, if you are one to roam,
Or if you'd rather stay inside, a hearth, a heart, and home.
Vastel
Shiver if you fancy, but hurry as you do
Lest the things that linger here fancy meeting you.
Go quickly and stay quiet. Continue on your way.
The night is long but carry on and pray you see the day.
Festival Street
Bursting forth with bustling feet
Is how we find old Festival Street.
A tiny road in a tiny town
Lush with lively living sounds.
Clothes hang high above to dry
While crystals shine across the sky,
The air is cool and crisp and new
And wind chimes ring to welcome you.
Bursting forth with bustling feet
That's how we find old Festival Street.
Spilling forth with laughing voices
Cheering, clapping, happy noises.
Children chase each other tired.
Shuffling seniors long retired.
Few are days completely complete
Without a trip to Festival Street.
The Barter Beast
A giant creature, plump and round
And fuzzy, furred and fleeced
With many arms, and little charms
And drool that's thick as grease
And in the woods, they sell their goods
From west to south southeast
So come commerce and lose your purse
To wily barter beasts
A Second Spell
Myra knows one spell
Though she knows it rather well
I strain to see the rationale
While sitting in this cell.
A heal would be idyllic.
A teleport sublime.
I'd rather you do something else
Than make a mirror's shine.
Myra says it's perfect
"Reflection is the key".
I'd have to beg to differ
When the threats reflect to me.
So maybe Myra Moonstone
If we make it through this hell
Perhaps you might consider
Picking up a second spell.
The Vacancy
The Vacancy is open.
It's empty and it's clean.
There is no sky, nor is there ground,
And nothing in between.
There's nothing to be witnessed,
There's nothing to be heard.
There's nothing to the point it seems
That nothing is absurd.
It eats the space around it,
It grows a bit each time.
The Vacancy is nothing,
And nothing is sublime.
Buy Yourself a Life
Buy yourself a life, they sell the gimmicks readily.
If you've got the cash to spend my friend then that's your remedy,
A cure-all for the pain of being plain and unremarkable.
The secret's hidden here, beneath the awning of a market stall.
That’s the trick, the pay to win, the spin-the-wheel, the skinner box.
The game design comes creeping in, it starts with the progression blocks.
The grind becomes implausible, the loot is just a stupid dream.
The gold in-game? It hasn’t meant a thing since 2023.
It's crystals now, you haven't heard? It's one for every 1000 gold,
The system’s fine, besides, there's other raids to grind if this grows old.
After all, your friends are here, you haven't got a place to go!
So check the wiki, do the math, and give the dice another throw.
So come and buy yourself a life, there's armor sets for every style.
Pull those bootstraps to the sky and try to give a winning smile.
Life is short, so hop in queue, the player base is strong and stable.
We've got the market in a hold, with cash that flows beneath a table.
Go Somewhere New
I hope that you do
MY ARTWORK
2D Animation
Over the course of a summer I decided to pick up VTubing. I learned to digitally paint and rig a 2D Model of my character Mona. The 'joke' for this character is that viewers would click for a stereotypical anime girl character, only for the character to stay silent, and the hat to begin talking. Here is a short test of that model to show it's movement and animations.
Artwork and Logo Design
Here is a collection of logos I've done as part of my freelance work, and personal game projects
