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Playable Mystery Prototype
Dog Detective
A branching detective mystery where players interrogate four suspects, compare testimony against evidence, and decide who killed John Gorilla.
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Original Card Game Prototype
Holdout
A strategic elimination game where players pass cards, trigger matching pairs, and fight to become the last player still holding a hand.
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Game / Systems Concept
Game Writing & Narrative Design
Interactive / Playable Work
Borderlands 2, Nathan Maliwan
Game Writing & Narrative Design
A hostile Maliwan technician repeatedly challenges the Vault Hunters with increasingly dangerous Eridium-powered robots in a desperate effort to prove his engineering superiority.
Dog Detective
Interactive / Playable Work
A branching detective mystery where players interrogate four suspects, compare testimony against evidence, and decide who killed John Gorilla.
Holdout
Interactive / Playable Work
A strategic elimination game where players pass cards, trigger matching pairs, and fight to become the last player still holding a hand.
Imposter
Game / Systems Concept
A top-down, real-time stealth-puzzle game in which a superspy infiltrates secure facilities by copying identities, manipulating security systems, and improvising multiple routes to each objective.
Rotwing
Game Writing & Narrative Design
A Fallout 4-inspired mutated carrion bird that overwhelms exposed players in swarms and turns ruined urban spaces into loot-filled communal nesting grounds.
Witcher 3, See You at Sunset
Game Writing & Narrative Design
A Witcher 3-inspired monster contract in which Geralt accepts an heirloom brooch as payment, only to discover that the reward is cursed and anchoring the defeated wraith to him.
XCOM 3 Sequel Game Design Concept
Game / Systems Concept
A speculative XCOM sequel pitch in which the Commander rebuilds a covert global defense force while balancing political instability, faction conflict, and a hidden psionic invasion from beneath the ocean.
