- Developed narrative and artistic directions for characters, environments, and backstories.- Collaborated with Creative Director to design within thematic guidelines.- Created custom and unique illustrations, sprites, animations, and visual effects for the project.- Contributed to establishing Active Duck as a successful startup, overseeing business operations, profitability, quality, and communication.- Developed and maintained consistent branding across marketing materials and game assets.

- Designed and developed a set of visual effects for use in situations like population change, dying, and respawning. - Created sprites, animations for collectibles, plants, terrain, whilst working in close proximity with the design team in order to ensure assets reflect the research and analysis correctly. - Studied technological and scientific effects to better align created assets to the original appearance and theming of the game.https://louielab.org/SpaceZoologist/

- Worked cooperatively with a team of 8-12 other Teacher Assistants and Graders to complete grading tasks for assignments for a class of 250+.- Taught various aspects to game development, primarily relating to Particle Effects and art implementation.

- Assisted in producing art assets for a digitalization of game mechanics for museum purposes. - Primarily worked in Pixel Art to create Logos, Characters, Scenes/Environments over a period of 4 months.- Aided in the creation of an Art Design Document, primarily relating to color, shading, and animation.

- Coordinated tasks within a team with other personnel throughout the production process.- Monitored production processes to ensure quality and thematic completion of game's components.- Conducted team meetings to discuss production progress, player feedback, and ensure that sprint objectives have been met.- Designed and balanced mechanic for 40+ player card interactions over 8 different iterations. - Developed game beyond in-class instruction, creating additional core game features including lore, monsters, and interactables.- Attended public playtesting events (Protospiel) to better gauge the game's balance as well as monitor player reception and feedback in anticipation for market reception.

- Worked full time alongside 8 colleagues to produce and create an action platforming game called Seamless.- Regularly held meetings to discuss potential changes and respond to feedback.- Held playtests both public and private to diagnose issues with the game and translate those issues into bugs that the team could handle and fix.

- Aided Faculty and Professors in a classroom setting for classes JAPN 2, JAPN 3, JAPN 6, and finally JAPN 103. - Helped facilitate and check in on classroom discussions, occasionally acting as test proctors. - Lead discussions for out of class environments, i.e. Language Tables where students could discuss freely in the languages that they were learning.

- Collaboratively worked on grading, and giving feedback on assignments for a class of 250+.

Directly assisted the ELD community at Monta Vista High School through NSS activities, such as NSS crew, NSS course fair, and ELD Parent nights. Provided Japanese to English, and English to Japanese translations for the school as well as ELD parents. Mainly assisted in the translation of school information and meetings; however also tutored students through Study Buddies.