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Tianjin, Cn

Shanghai, China

Shanghai Studio

Worked on the Chinese DLC - Immortal PIllars for Age of Mythology: RetoldI worked directly with level designers, artists, and clients to ensure the highest quality of content for the players. - Edited Dialogue Text - Wrote Dialogue Text - Storyboarded Cutscenes - Wrote Cutscene Dialogues- Wrote In-Game Barks- Storyboarded the Game Trailer - Wrote Game Trailer Text

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Worked on the officially licensed Space Adventure Cobra video game.- Designed the story based on the TV series- Storyboarded the Cutscenes- Wrote in-game dialogues- Wrote the cutscene dialogues- Wrote the combat and level barks- Helped design the levels, the enemies, and the obstacles.

Remote

I teach a Narrative Design course part-time (6 hours a month).

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Slovenia

Designed the Various LevelsHelped Design Various Gameplay mechanics Helped Design Various Interactions Designed The Various Gameplay Maps

Ljubljana, Slovenia

- Designed the opening sequence- Connected the gameplay to the story- Designed a new collection system - Suggested game design logic and systems to make the "world" feel more alive. - Worked with the marketing and media teams for release videos and trailers.- Helped design future maps and worked on the monetisation system

Ljubljana, Slovenia

Ljubljana, Slovenia

I wrote and designed future events and gameplay mechanics for updates. Assessed and reviewed the opening sequence gameplay flow to improve days 0-7 player retentions rates

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

- Assessed and reviewed the gameplay and narrative sequences of a Chinese game, to prepare it for release in the Western market. - Modified Characters’s Names to reflect the Western Audience - Reviewed and flagged any culturally insensitive art, text, and images. - Designed New Opening Sequence - Designed New Tutorial - Wrote New Dialogues - Designed New Characters & Enemies - Built a Western Audience Themed World Lore

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Did market research, internal documents, world building. - Character Designs - Building Designs - Animal System Designs - Mini Game Designs - Hero System Designs - Opening Sequence - Tutorial Design - Event Design

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

- Assessed and reviewed a Chinese Fantasy game, to be reskinned for the Western Market. - Reviewed the art and flagged all inappropriate or culturally insensitive images, character designs, or backgrounds. - Reviewed and provided alternatives for Character names and designs, which were clones of copyrighted IP characters. - Rewrote the opening sequence text.- Rewrote the tutorial text & Chapters dialogues.

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Reviewed, analyzed, and assessed various Chinese & Korean games for potential reskinning for the Western markets. - Analyzed story issues & solutions - Determined potential Tutorial issues & solutions- Studied gameplay mechanics & provided detailed analysis, feedback, and comments.

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

As a Narrative Designer Supervisor, I work closely with foreign and Chinese colleagues to bring the best game experiences out of China and into the foreign market.- I manage a team of six narrative designers of all levels, backgrounds, and cultures. I assign, review, edit, and approve all narrative tasks assigned to the team. - I collaboratively work across multiple teams (art, design, UA, UI, marketing, etc…) to ensure that the narrative vision for the game is cohesively expressed to the audience. - I coordinate with the various game producers, and creative leads and delegate narrative tasks within the narrative team to ensure the utmost quality. - I create the world lore based on the producer's vision, the creative team’s ideas/concepts, and the agreed-upon overall vision of the game. - Plan the narrative structure of the game, the player's path, and the overall experience by cooperating closely with the development team to see through the integration of narrative designs. Writing the main storyline, opening sequence, game trailer, dialogues, epic and side quests, - I design characters, icons, avatar frames, weapons, creatures, enemies, and various art assets using detailed descriptions and examples, providing visual references for all details.- Provide development teams with a tangible cultural understanding of sensitivity risks and preferences of Western game audiences.- Support development and marketing teams by building reference and educational documents to give special insight into Western and gaming cultures.- I incubate and grow future game concepts by spotting trends, testing competitors' games, and immersing myself in various other mediums, and popular phenomena.

I oversee the narrative direction, world lore, character designs, clan designs, event designs, as well as all text and dialogue.

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Was tasked with designing the new world lore to match the previous brands, and update it to reflect the passing of time from released games. - Designed the New World Lore so it’s IP approvable. - Wrote and Storyboarded a New Opening Sequence. - Designed a New Tutorial - Wrote A New Overall Story that matches the New Approved World Lore. - Wrote a compelling trailer that sells the game and caters to the fan base of the IP. - Ensured that previous designed art assets, and gameplay was GameLoft approved based on the new world lore.

Guangzhou, Guangdong, China

Designed new quest lines, events, characters, weapons, town hall skins, enemies, etc…

Germany

Rewrote the overall story of the game, as well as the character arcs, dialogues, opening sequence, and animated cutscenes, as well as helped with game design, level design, and game mechanics.

Paris, Île-De-France, France

Worked on the officially licensed Survivor Castaway Island game. - Designed NPC opponents based on seven distinct personality traits. - Designed Themes and Events for the various seasons. - Wrote Linear dialogues between the player and various NPCs - Wrote Choice dialogues between the player and various NPCs. - Wrote branching dialogues between the player and various NPCs.- Wrote dialogue barks for the game's Narrator. - Helped design coding logic for the dialogues.

Beijing, China

As a Lead Narrative Designer, I champion the narrative vision of each game within the development process, and I was in charge of a team of four writers who craft the game’s story, design characters, design levels, missions, enemies, weapons, artifacts, build story arcs, and contribute to building the player’s journey.- Create descriptions and backstories for characters, locations, objects, events, and the overall world. - In collaboration with the Level Design team, define the flow of events in a mission, in complete detail; define the emotions targeted in each situation; elaborate on all elements that enhance the quality of the experience, including dialogues, the timing of events, props, etc.- Support the Game Design team in defining systems and structures to support the game experience throughout the entire game, not just during story-driven moments;- Describe narrative situations, and create documents defining their content and their role in the course of the game.- Mentoring other writers and designers.

Beijing, China

Mobile Shooting Game - World Building - Story Creation - Trailer writing & Storyboarding - FTUE - Opening Sequence scripting - Dialogue, Story, and Tutorial writing - Character Designs - Weapons / Attacks / Defenses - Enemy Designs - Level Designs

Beijing, China

- World Building - Story Creation - Trailer writing & Storyboarding - FTUE - Opening Sequence scripting - Dialogue, Story, and Tutorial writing - Weapons / Attacks / Defenses - Buildings / Vehicles Designs - Level Designs - Enemy Designs- Character Designs

Beijing, China

Updated the FTUE (First Time Users Experience) and narrative for a new generation of players. - created an overall enemy/threat for the player. - wrote new dialogue and story-beats, and tutorial text. - created weekly, monthly, and season events based on the new storyline and enemies. - wrote and storyboarded a new trailer and opening sequence.

Beijing, China

- Worked with the brand holders (Skybound Entertainment) to ensure cohesiveness, brand rules, and the brand lore stayed true. - Wrote & storyboarded trailers. - Worked closely with the brand to find “loopholes” in the lore to allow this game to be the first one to introduce electricity into a Walking Dead game. - I was one of the key factors to bring Lara Croft (IP character) into the Walking Dead world, another first for the brand. - wrote and storyboarded the IP crossover announcement trailer, working with Skybound Entertainment & the Crystal Dynamics (Lara Croft) IP holder. - Wrote, Edited, Approved, the main storyline, dialogues, events, and quests. - wrote and designed key documents for a vehicle system, monthly events, future storyline narratives, and new character designs. - created, pitched, designed, and wrote the server vs server events, as well as creating original characters such as “Caroline Harper”, “The Wolf”, and “Tobias Black"

Beijing, China

Reviewed, analyzed, and assessed various Chinese & Korean games for potential reskinning for the Western markets. - Analyzed story issues & solutions - Determined potential Tutorial issues & solutions- Studied gameplay mechanics & provided detailed analysis, feedback, and comments.

Beijing, China

Designed a variety of new mini-games: - shooting - narrative driven - card - driving - search - puzzle - tap - mystery - swipe

Beijing, China

Mobile Shooting Game- World Building - Story Creation - Trailer writing & Storyboarding - FTUE - Opening Sequence scripting - Dialogue, Story, and Tutorial writing - Character Designs - Weapons / Attacks / Defenses / Enemy Designs - Level Designs

Beijing, China

- New Story Creation - New Trailer writing & Storyboarding - Wrote a new FTUE - New Opening Sequence scripting - New Dialogue, Story, and Tutorial writing - New Character Designs - New Weapons / Attacks / Defenses / Enemy Designs - New Storyline - New Enemy/Threat concepts & designs. - New Events designs

Beijing, China

- World Building - Story Creation - Trailer writing & Storyboarding - FTUE - Opening Sequence scripting - Dialogue, Story, and Tutorial writing - Character Designs - Weapons / Attacks / Defenses / Enemy Designs - Level Designs

Iceland

Civitas PC/Mobile Game - Character lore - Character backstories - Character barks - Character bios (in-game & website extended)- trailer text - ad text - website copy

Singapore

Singapore

My roles are (but not limited to):- Creating detail-driven design documents that are used by the whole team.- Create fun, fresh, and exciting new gameplay features.- Manage all creative aspects of the game from pitches to approvals to launch.- Managing teams of designers, programmers, artists, to ensure that the overall vision is inline.- Creating a game’s worldview, plot, narrative, and overall game design.- Studying the data and ensuring that updates are vital, fix problems, and enhance the user experience.- Conducting extensive research into themes, characters, brands, and collected relevant materials based on the clients’ demands.- Design the gameplay, quests, systems, FTUE, and the overall player experience.- Ensuring constant communication between all parties and departments.- Analyze game data such as KPI’s, retention rates, app interactions, and event rates.

Singapore

My Tasks/Roles were (but not limited to):- Creating detail-driven design documents that are used by the whole team.- Create fun, fresh, and exciting new gameplay features.- Conceptualize and Storyboard the games' opening sequence and trailers. - Manage all creative aspects of the game from pitches to approvals to launch.- Managing teams of designers, programmers, artists, to ensure that the overall vision is inline.- Creating a game’s worldview, plot, narrative, and overall game design.- Studying the data and ensuring that updates are vital, fix problems, and enhance the user experience.- Conducting extensive research into themes, characters, brands, and collected relevant materials based on the clients’ demands.- Design the gameplay, quests, systems, FTUE, and the overall player experience.- Ensuring constant communication between all parties and departments.- Analyze game data such as KPI’s, retention rates, app interactions, and event rates.Video Games: Adventure Time Heroes, Oddbods Turbo Run, Nickelodeon Pixel Town, Disney Epic Quest, and Project: Odin a canceled RPG Game.

Singapore

- I created the game’s worldview, main plot, and subplots while connecting them to the brand IPs. - I did extensive research into the brand IPs, characters, and collected relevant materials to ensure a unique player experience while staying true to the brand. - I wrote, storyboarded, and directed the game's opening sequence. - I wrote all in-game text, dialogue, and quests.

Singapore, Singapore

Took a google translated Taiwanese game, and edited it down from 400,000 lines of text to just over 200,000 lines of text. Updated the story for a western audience. Created a new overall story with more concise dialogue. Scripted and wrote a new western audience launch trailer.

Singapore

Crafted overall narrative, wrote quests, wrote the dialogue, cutscenes, trailers, created original characters to interact with branded Disney characters, and ensure brand quality.

Singapore, Singapore

- Assessed the opening sequence and tutorial and provided a detailed analysis of possible changes and updates. - Updated the App Store Description and Image Texts.

I was Lead Narrative for the mobile game "Oddbods Turbo Run". Where I wrote and designed quests, as well as insuring that brand was on point while writing in-game terms and text.

Creator of Intellectual Properties for comic books, video games, movies, and TV series. Freelance Mobile Game DesignerCreator and scriptwriter for film and TV series pitches. Content Adaptation WriterCreative Director of Comic Book series

Singapore, Singapore

Wrote, edited, researched, and designed multiple epic and regional quests for Assassin's Creed Odyssey. - I worked on the Crete section of the game. - I created the character Ardos (and did the primary research, backstory, initial storyline layouts, and dialogues for the Minotaur quest line). - I worked remotely from Singapore with the Chengdu, China team and created, wrote, and helped design all the Euboea quests and storylines.

Co-Creator & Writer of "SNARL" a 35 page one-shot story coming through Comixology by ALTERNA COMICS DIGITAL imprint. 4th Quarter 2014.

Creator & Writer "Convoy of Corpses" a stand alone Afghanistan War Comic Book, about the "worlds most dangerous highway". Ongoing series Writer of "C.L.A.W.S." (An in house character for "ROCKETBLAST Comics")

Created and Wrote anthology stories.

I wrote two stories which are being featured in "Emerald Star Comic" anthology "EMSC Presents" First Story: "Rule Number 001" http://myimaginationshome.blogspot.ca/2013/04/rule-number-001-anthology-story.htmlSecond Story: "Swords of Honor" http://myimaginationshome.blogspot.ca/2013/05/swords-of-honor-complete-anthology-story.html

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Calgary, Alberta, Canada

Wrote independent original comic book stories, children's book stories, and movie scripts.

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Creative Writing

Early Childhood, Childcare

Studied childcare. Specialized in Bullying, dealing with problem behaviors and working with 5-12 year olds.