Marlena Abraham Email & Phone Number

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

Independent work by Marlena and their team. Game design and writing services available to small teams and larger enterprise projects.

Pittsburgh

Bit Bridge is a community for indie game creators in Pittsburgh, PA. As President, I work with the other organizers to run events like lightning talks, playtest events, coffee meetups, and our annual Halloween Showcase. In my capacity as President of the organization, I co-ran a round table at GDC 2018 for community organizers from all over the world.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

• Previous roles at Schell Games include:
• Lead Writer + Level Designer (I Expect You to Die 2: The Spy and the Liar)
• Systems + Level Lead (Pre-existing IP theme park ride)
• Project Director (HistoryMaker Phase I)
• Writer + Narrative Designer (PlayForward: Elm City Stories)
• Story + Content Designer (LEGO BrickHeadz VR)

Greater Pittsburgh Area

I was the project director and lead game designer on Mechanisms, a puzzle mobile game designed to teach and test some of the core principles of organic chemistry. I worked with the development team, the head of the company, and various subject matter experts to design and build the framework surrounding the puzzles.

Pittsburgh

During my internship at Schell Games, I worked with a team of ~12 people to build a version of Water Bears, a puzzle game that Schell had previously built for touch devices, on the then newly released HTC Vive. I worked on solving issues of scale, redesigning the interaction controls for use in VR, tactile menu design, and the celebration moment at the end.

Greater Seattle Area

As part of the OneNote design team, I worked on design problems relating to sorting through and displaying the large amounts of data that one accumulates after longtime use of OneNote.

Greater Pittsburgh Area

During my internship at Carnegie Learning, I spent the majority of my time doing some preliminary interaction design work for a port of some of the company's software from desktop to iPad and other touch devices.

Portland, Oregon Area

During my time at Uncorked Studios, I worked with small teams of developers, visual designers, and QA specialists to build and update iPhone apps. My primary responsibilities involved implementing new features in Objective-C.