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After my excellent performance on Endless Summer Book 3 and The Heist: Monaco, I was promoted to creative lead for my next project – a delightful romantic comedy about navigating the world of high end matchmaking!

This led to a huge explosion in terms of skill set. I was in charge of managing our asset budget and new art requests. I had junior writers collaborating with me and working under me on the project, as well as senior writers and executive leadership to report to with regular milestones for critique and feedback.

I led countless writer’s room with my team, from delivering loglines for the exec team to choose from down to every chapter. I edited and guided my collaborator’s work to match the vision I had for the project.

I consulted with the team in charge of monetization to ensure we had enough premium content baked into the story from the beginning. When the data revealed a new trend, we adjusted our premiums mid-production cycle so that we could monetize with peak conditions.

Ultimately, I served as the lead on a project over 18 months. Despite several setbacks (including the global pandemic), we produced a book that became a best seller in Choice’s VIP slate of content.

A lost ROM named Turing breaks into the apartment of a struggling journalist to ask for help. They claim to be the first sapient machine—not a simulation of life but a genuinely self-aware artificial being—and the technical genius who created them has gone missing. Can you unravel the shocking conspiracy that threatens to rock an entire society? Or will the darkness that lies behind the bright neon lights of Neo-SF consume you?

I was the lead writer on the re-make of the existing game Read Only Memories. This meant taking all 8 hours of the game’s text (which is a lot, in a game as text heavy as a visual novel) and rewriting all of it to prepare the game for voice acting. I worked on very tight schedules, sometimes only receiving a character’s script to edit only a few days before the voice actor was going to be in the booth with the material. I also wrote completely new content for the re-release, including the ability to romance a half lion hybrid man. This content was praised in the Kotaku article “Video Game Makes Banging a Half Lion Leather Daddy Surprisingly Normal”. 

2064 is out now on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam, and PS4.

Overdose was made during Global Game Jam 2016, where it was nominated for Best Design and Best Audio in Brooklyn, NY’s jam location and is an official Indiecade 2016 selection. Players are chronically ill patients who must take many pills a day to function.

The story follows a woman at a high demand job in new york whose body rapidly breaks down on her. Players navigate the hellscape of taking countless pills a day, trying to appear ‘fine’ to the people around you, and battling the worst villain of all – the american healthcare system.

The theme, narrative, and mechanics were inspired by both my experience with chronic illness, and my mother’s 9 year battle with Lyme Disease.

The world ended on the day the bombs fell. Since then, it’s always been like this: disease, hunger, death. The ruling Aristocrats — a faceless oligarchy that controls all resources — have unchallenged authority. There’s never enough food, water, or vaccine to go around. The rich receive regular doses of vaccinations in exchange for their unconditional government support. The poor live in fear, superstition, and squalor until they die.

Amy Wellard, a young woman reluctantly working for the government to qualify for the vaccine lottery, believes there’s a cure — and she’s going to find it. Even if it costs her her life.

I joined the Shardlight narrative team primarily as an editor. I played through the entire’s game narrative, created lengthy documentation detailing the changes I planned to make to various character’s voices, how to rewrite certain plot beats, etc. I worked with the lead on the game to perform character building exercises so that everyone from minor shopkeeps to the main characters felt fully realized and distinct in the writing.

In addition to rewriting and editing previously existing content, I contributed original writing in places where the story had not yet been fleshed out. I wrote the description text for every single object in all the rooms in the game, along with their accompanied voiced line attached to the interact action. Lastly, I wrote an original song for the music’s score and collaborated closely with the musician.

Shardlight may be purchased on Steam now.

As you meander through the Crosses, you begin to realize how much of a misnomer “The Hill of Crosses” is in reality.

While the majority are crosses by a mile, Judaic Stars of David, Muslim Crescents, Wiccan Stars, Buddhist Wheels, and other symbols you don’t recognize begin to pop out of the sea of white rectangles.

The Hill is a text adventure developed during the IGDA Writing SIG’s game jam focusing on games with extensive stories to tell. Developed with Rachél Bazelais, the game focuses on a lesbian EOD specialist in the height of the the Iraq war, and her partner’s grief at her loss. I wrote the entire story, while Rachél programmed and implemented images. The Hill can be played for free here.