Playable Interactive Narrative Games:
Writing Samples
What Keeps Us Here (Arcweave)
Set in a small dying town where ambition is unheard of, you take on the role of a worn-out convenience store worker who dreams of becoming a video game writer. What Keeps Us Here is a story about the microscopic victories that keep people alive in unremarkable places. [Play on Itch.io]
Palimpsest (Twine)
Palimpsest is an interactive narrative game about art, ego, rot, and what we’re really asking when we ask to be remembered. You play as Elliot Graves: A modern poet and terminal patient. A man with too many words and not enough time. [Play on Itch.io]
To Wet A Whistle (Twine)
To Wet A Whistle is a short playable story written during The Narrative Department’s Game Writing Masterclass (2025). This branching narrative tells the tale of a man in desperate need of a drink of water. [Play on Itch.io]
Minor NPC Examples:
World of Warcraft (Jorah/Merrick)
I created this paired NPC set as a spec quest for an MMO in the spirit of World of Warcraft to demonstrate story-first systems thinking. Jorah is a soft-spoken dwarf miner who doesn’t realize he’s a ghost. Merrick is a Twilight’s Hammer saboteur and provides the counterweight as a motivated antagonist whose ritual uses bound souls to keep a fel focus open. [Read Here]
Creative Briefs:
Martha’s Vineyard (Fallout 4)
This is a creative brief written for The Narrative Department’s Game Writing Masterclass where I was tasked with adding a NPC, enemy, or POI to the game. I chose Martha’s Vineyard because it’s a recognizable location that could be reinterpreted through Fallout 4’s lens of post-apocalyptic irony. [Read Here]
Game Pitch: Canine Conquest
For a writing exercise completed during TND’s Game Writing Masterclass I was assigned five random gameplay actions from a pool of twenty-five and then tasked with building a game pitch based on at least 3 of the actions. I opted to go a step further and use all five of the actions. Canine Conquest was the result. [Read Here]
Screenwriting Samples:
Mock Cine: GODS AND SHADOWS
Written for TND’s Game Writing Masterclass, GODS AND SHADOWS is a meta-commentary game proof of concept where iconic video game characters have retired from their legendary “careers” of violence, espionage, and adventure. {Read Here]
Fight Scene: SPLENDOR VS SILENTIUM
This scene was written as a fight sequence for a writing test featuring two previously established (in-house) characters whose history and philosophies collide inside a ruined cathedral. It’s structured like a late-game boss encounter, with cinematic beats that bracket three escalating gameplay phases. The piece balances spectacle with character voice. [Read Here]