games, stories, education
I’m a narrative designer, game writer, and game design tutor with almost two decades of experience. I focus on interactive narratives, system rhetorics, and communicating emotions in games.
I worked on games small, medium, and big, from student projects to mobile and indie games, to high-budget blockbusters.
As a consulting designer, I help teams and indie developers create games that stay with the players—while staying true to the vision and within the budget.
I have a particular set of skills that I would love to use to help your project.
I offer an outside perspective and targeted support throughout the whole production:
I work guided by your ideas and the preferences of your team. I know, that as the game’s creator, you have good ideas. I also know, from experience, that good ideas and solutions to complex problems can be two separate things—and I can offer you two decades of experience in finding solutions while staying within business, technical, and artistic constraints.
We can work one-on-one on topics that are important to you. We would meet online, for one hour, at weekly/bi-weekly/monthly intervals—depending on your needs. We can meet a few times to work out a specific problem, consult your CV/portfolio, or plan your career path. We can also meet on a regular basis to work on developing your narrative skills and toolset.
If you need someone to run an online workshop or training serving your team’s particular needs—I’m your guy. I have over a dozen years of experience in teaching narrative design, game writing, design doc writing, tutoring designers, organizing writers’ rooms, etc.
As a designer I find creative solutions to complex problems, harnessing words and systems to tell captivating stories that will make a lasting impression on the players.
I had the opportunity to work on big AAA titles for CD Project Red and Techland, mobile freemium games for ATGames, and in Different Tales I co-designed and wrote artistic and journalistic literary games. I also worked on new game prototypes with 11 bit studios, Anshar Studios and BLANK.