Technical Designer / Narrative Designer — Unreal Engine

I design gameplay and narrative systems that react to the player, with a focus on quests, dialogue, AI behaviour, interaction and implementation in Unreal Engine.

What I do

• Technical Design: UE5 Blueprint systems, gameplay scripting, modular tools and designer-facing workflows.
• Narrative Design: quests, dialogue structure, branching logic, reactive content and player-facing narrative systems.
• Implementation: turning design and writing into working in-engine content rather than stopping at documentation.
• Team Support: mentoring junior developers and level designers; teaching Unreal Engine and Blueprint fundamentals.

Selected work

The case studies below show different sides of the same skill set: systemic interactive narrative, writing under a hard production deadline, and pedagogical dialogue design.

• Rooftop Riot — Systemic Narrative Design — persistent state, fail-forward encounters and consequences that carry from social scenes into the concert, raid and ending.
• Still Breathing — Game Writing SIG Arcjam 2025 — 6th place in Theme Interpretation; writing, interactive structure and scope management under a jam deadline.
• Logos — Narrative Design / Dialogue Systems — pedagogical game design built around reading, interpreting and applying source material in a dialogue battle.

Other shipped projects

• Sfigga Academy Adventure — shipped Steam game; level/game design support, legacy Blueprint cleanup and source-control work.
• Asylum Escape — released game; historical asylum research and archival patient letters integrated into the experience.

Writing samples

• In-Game Newspaper Writing Samples — diegetic journalism, ideological framing and political worldbuilding through competing reports.

Professional experience

Virtual Technologies — Technical Designer / Unreal Generalist

• UE5 Blueprint systems for dialogue, quests, stealth AI, UI and gameplay; legacy-system cleanup, reusable workflows and team mentoring.