This portfolio isn't an exhaustive list of everything I've ever done, and crucially, it doesn't include professional work protected by NDAs – but it does feature some of the work I'm most proud of.

I've tried my best to curate the material on display here, and annotated my samples with contextual information wherever possible. Projects are sorted into categories, and ordered roughly in order of how cool I think they are.

Samples from each project, usually in PDF format, can be accessed by clicking the banner image.

Whether it's been something I've been working on for a while, or some new idea that's caught my attention, I'm always working on something. These are the main ones at the moment.

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Interactive campfire story (2023)

Wayside is the latest creation from myself and a group of friends who get together once a year for a 'creativity jam'. For 2023, we chose the word "radioactive" and the phrase "you made it feel like home" as randomly-selected themes.

I devised the overall structure, led the narrative design, and wrote about half of the prose (mentoring a friend to write the other half). The character, object and environment designs were proposed by the handful of talented 2D artists among us, and their work informed/inspired the narrative, which was a really fun process! There's also an amazing soundtrack I had nothing to do with.

We challenged ourselves to complete this project in a weekend, and slightly overscoped – but for a few months after we continued to tinker with/polish it in our spare time, and released a final build we're very proud of.

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Science-fantasy webcomic (2014—present)

First and foremost, Slipgate is a passion project; it's a close collaboration between myself and Eve Travers and has been in development for several years now. It's a story about what happens after the end of the universe, and follows the last librarian, Kline, as they venture across the remaining planes of reality.

Slipgate is one of those projects that has grown so large that we need a wiki to keep track of it all, but we're committed to getting it out into the world eventually. The file linked here is a preview of the art from the first issue alongside my scriptwork.

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Though I draw upon my experience from many kinds of media, I'm most interested in writing for those that allow interactivity. Games, and other kinds of ludonarratives, are a uniquely powerful kind of art, and perfectly suited to the kinds of story I like to tell.

Flock Together

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Unity-based adventure game (2021)

Flock Together is a bird management simulator about an impending climate catastrophe. It's the first release by Lizard Elixir, an indie dev collective I put together for the GMTK Game Jam 2021.

For Flock Together, I worked as a producer and as the primary narrative designer; I wrote the 'story cards', dialogue and promotional copy, and will continue in this role for our future projects.

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Evidence File MT-695/B

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Narrative object (2016)

There's something about tactility in narrative art - I think that being able to touch and manipulate objects is a really fun and interesting way of blurring the lines between fiction and the real world.

Inspired by the mechanics of non-linear investigation games like Her Story and the tone of Twin Peaks, Evidence File MT-695/B tells a story through a collection of physical documents, enclosed in a manilla folder and supposedly collected during an investigation into the mysterious disappearance of a teenage girl.

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The Norrjärvistad Tether

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Twine game (2015)

Inspired by the atmosphere of Simon Stålenhag's paintings, and the mechanics of the Lifeline series, this sci-fi mystery places the player in the role of...themselves. The Norrjärvistad Tether has the player 'contacted' by a young child who has found a strange artefact; it's up to the player to guide their new friend through an adventure.

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Station

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Twine game (2016)

A classic science fiction story which places the player in the role of a starship pilot on approach to a space station; my focus in writing this was to efficiently and believably communicate exposition without breaking the immersion of the player. As a proof-of-concept, I experimented with adapting the story into a print version.

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Certain projects don't fit neatly into any sort of grouping, but are still worth sharing!

Ponies, Pineapple & Chemo

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Creative non-fiction prose (2019)

A few years back, my sister was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a kind of bone cancer; what followed was a long and arduous journey to recovery. In the aftermath, each member of the family found their own ways to deal with the trauma - and for my dad, that was writing a book.

I contributed two chapters, featuring my perspective on some of the events. The first printing of the book in 2016 made the news, and nowadays the book is available via Amazon Kindle.

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Like many writers, in my early years I wrote fanfiction for fun – but during the COVID-19 pandemic I found a new use for the practice: I kept my creative brain ticking over by delving into comfortable, familiar fictions and formats. Since then, I've kept up with it as a hobby, and as an opportunity to help out with charitable causes.

In my later years at university, I started to do more serious scholarly work. Most of that work centred on broadening the definition of games, and the implementation of narrative design outside of traditional video games. These academic adventures informed my growing philosophy, and continue to influence my approach to narrative/game design.

Theses

My undergraduate thesis, Ludonarratology of Harmony: On Defining And Designing Emotional Games, and my Master's thesis, No Past Lives: On Liminal Ludonarratology, Mirroring & Amnesia are both pretty dense, and ultimately pretty dry, but I'm more than happy to share copies with anyone who's interested.