Assembled & organized a team of 4 for FGJ #2, a 10-day game jam.  All members were individuals looking to join a team on the Discord.

Designed the mechanics and scope of the game, and kept the rest of the team within scope and on task to meet the game jam’s 10 day deadline.

Ranked 7th in Gameplay, out of 52 submissions.

Designed gameplay loop, AI behavior, and player tools for our 5 person team.

Took on additional responsibilities in programming AI behavior and tool interaction to ensure that our deadlines were met.

Designed and refined the core loop and gameplay structure of a roguelike over the course of 6 weeks, working with a programmer and a visual artist.

Built prototypes of game mechanics in Godot for the programmer to optimize and refine.

Created a development timeline, scheduled meetings, and set deliverables for myself and teammates.

Designed 7 days of multimedia puzzles in a team of 4, as part of a larger project with 25 people, to gradually reveal an evolving story impacted by whether or not the players could solve the puzzles in time.

Created puzzles revealed through an email list, social media accounts, a website, and physical clues for players to find and follow clues to discover information about the story.

​Designed the initial floor plan and general layout of the HSS Invincible, the central hub for the player to travel between levels aboard.

Created the list of enemies the player will encounter in the planned demo.

Developed the overarching action economy for both the players and the enemies.

​Wrote out a design document for a dungeon level, designed the entry puzzle and environmental storytelling elements, and detailed the player’s progression from the beginning of the level to the boss fight at the end.

Stress-tested 3 early builds, logging 35+ bugs and 10+ gameplay friction points in need of QoL.

Identified critical bugs related to storage, room detection, and colony management, allowing the lead developer to focus their efforts on improving the game rather than hunting down bugs.

Used the essential information from a full-length presentation to construct a rough design for a ~5 minute video.

Constructed short-form “TikTok” design pages with chunks of important info to engage busy parents.