Game Design | UX/Copywriting  | Moxie/AI

Narrative Design

Note: Due to the confidential/proprietary nature of this work and signed NDAs, I’ve substituted summaries for the actual game design/narrative design documents.

Galahad 3093

Story, character and weapon design for a third-person mech shooter. I also worked on game economies and developed a novel "character bidding" system to balance character selection — this gave popular characters a higher cost, enabling players to try out every character over time.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Armada of the Damned

Narrative design and dialogue for a (cancelled) third-person RPG based on the Pirates of the Caribbean IP. Over 300 pages — quest chains, spine/side quests, NPCs, locations, flow charts and branching dialogue logic.

FreeMarket

A transhuman science-fiction roleplaying game set aboard a space station near the planet Saturn. Each of these one-page stories tells the story of one of the four generations of settlers: those born to the colonists, those born to the natives, those created on matter printers and those who immigrated from Earth, Luna, Mars or other space habitats in the system. Click on an image to read that character's story.

Dungeons and Dragons Online: Stormreach

Narrative design and dialogue. Working on the city of Stormreach, its dungeons and wilderness areas and its various quests and raids gave me a great opportunity to create dozens of NPCs and names monsters, as well as to script all their interactions and dialogue. I designed the look and feel of DDO's loading screens and dungeon maps, wrote copy for the load screens and created the names and descriptions for over 100 items, artifacts and weapons.

Litany of the Dead

I also wrote the script for this video trailer for Litany of the Dead, a DDO mega-dungeon where the characters had to explore a necropolis, destroy the undead there and eventually take on a trio of vampire monks!

This video was created in 2006 to promote DDO: Stormreach's module "Litany of the Dead." "DDO Classic" videos were created during DDO: Stormreach and are posted here for entertainment only. Please be aware that while all content referenced in these videos is also available in DDO: Unlimited, it may only be available to VIP subscribers and players who purchase it from the DDO Store.