Projects

PROJECT HIGHLIGHTS

On SERIES: Your Story Universe, I was responsible for:

Organizing and staffing the Design team to best keep up with the rigorous schedule.
Reviewing season pitches to ensure design principles and clearly identified and consistent throughout the narrative.
Reviewing written scripts and providing feedback and instruction to ensure that Player/Reader Goals are identified and are player facing to reinforce agency and investment.

On The Walking Dead, I was responsible for:

Creating a Game Play Map template for all designers to use that gives a high level view of how Game Mechanics/Interactive Moments are distributed and balanced throughout any given episode.
Leading, training and inspiring the design team to uphold the Telltale design principals as well as providing training and guidance with working in the Telltale Tool to best allow the designer to express their creative visions.
Designing and documenting interactive elements that both highlight and support the interactive narrative. If game play was ever in conflict with the story being told or felt too removed from the point of the narrative, I would be responsible for striping it out of the experience.
Writing the story and dialog for several episodes based on the story outlines provided by the project creative leads.
Voice Directing the actors and providing appropriate narrative context so the performers could deliver their best!

On Guardians of the Galaxy, I was responsible for:

Streamlining the proposed new game mechanics to ensure we could properly account for the research and development within our production pipeline.
Approved, fleshed out and documented all new season game mechanics so that the development teams would have access to a maintained common document for reference.
Created unique interactive design elements that supported the narrative goals of the story without dragging the pacing down with overly complicated "puzzles".
Reviewing written scripts and adding interactive support where the story threatened to take agency away from the player.

On Tales of Monkey Island, I was responsible for:

Development of the 5 episode story arc.
Designing, writing and directing episode 2 and episode 5 in the series.
Documenting and maintaining design docs that would establish interactive game play elements for the series as well as individual episodes.
Voice Directing the actors and providing appropriate narrative context so the performers could deliver their best!
In - Tool scripting and assisting in with cinematics.

On Nick Bounty & The Dame with the Blue Chewed Shoe, I was responsible for:

Documenting and maintaining design docs that would establish interactive game play elements for the remote based team members.
Hiring freelance artists to assist in concept art, and additional visual design elements.
Hiring and Voice Directing the actors and providing appropriate narrative context so the performers could deliver their best!
All production and scheduling for contracted asset creators.
Managing a successful Kickstarter fundraising campaign.
Creation of 2D & 3D assets along with animation and cinematic presentation.