EXPERIENCE
PIXELBERRY STUDIOS, Mountain View, California
Writer II (Choices: Stories You Play), June 2023 – April 2026
Authored compelling narratives and dialogue for studio’s flagship product Choices: Stories You Play, a branching narrative/interactive fiction app with 50+ million downloads, 1+ million reviews, and a Top 25 Grossing (US) narrative IP.
Key Writer on The Royal Romance, which grossed $100+ million lifetime and averaged over 100k+ players for its entire 5-year run.
Book Lead for The Royal Masquerade, which reached 200k+ players and was beloved by fans.
Contributed to many financially successful books that regularly reached 30,000+ players, including writing, leading projects, and helping brainstorm storylines with other writers.
As a Writing Lead, ran brainstorm meetings with fellow writers and owned story documentation such as outlines, world-building, character sheets, and script dialogue.
Communicated story needs to art and production departments to maintain one cohesive vision.
Demonstrated ability to generate innovative ideas and adapt writing style to suit project voice, tone, and company objectives.
Worked in a fast-paced environment where projects were completed in 2-5 months with chapters coming out every week. Would often work on projects concurrently, starting a new one as one wraps up.
Designed narrative around the production realities and scope constraints of small mobile teams.
Thoughtfully integrated critique from narrative lead and exec team accurately and quickly.
Utilized proprietary toolset to write branching dialogue, item descriptions, and implement backgrounds, music, and sfx.
Prioritized tasks in a self-directed way and often took initiative to solve blockers to my work.
Researched relevant backgrounds for game worlds such as Renaissance era, Arthurian legends, and the Titanic.
Writer (Choices: Stories You Play), July 2017 – May 2023
Stepped into the role of Writing Lead to run the outlines, dialogue, and character development for sequels to Choices: Stories You Play’s hit properties: The Royal Romance 2 and 3. Combined, The Royal Romance trilogy is one of the top-grossing stories on the app.
Lorekeeper for The Royal Romance Universe.
Communicated across teams to incorporate feedback from stakeholders to create one cohesive vision.
Assisted behind-schedule projects by writing premium scene content, matching tone and style.
Regularly provided kind, honest feedback on other writers’ work, giving notes to raise the overall story quality.
Brainstormed variety of financially successful projects across different genres, including historical romance, contemporary romance, and murder mystery.
Junior Writer (Choices: Stories You Play), Jan 2017 – June 2017
Collaborated with lead writer on concepting, refining pitches, and identifying the essences that define the book’s core experiences for Rules of Engagement and The Royal Romance, two hit properties of Choices: Stories You Play:
Brainstormed with lead writers to create chapter outlines, then wrote the free scenes of most chapters.
GREYTWOLF GAMING, Seattle, Washington
Writer/Narrative Designer, Sept 2015 – Jan 2016
Worked on two unreleased game projects: a comedy dating RPG and a dark-humored space racer where I wrote announcer barks, designed relationship progression systems, and wrote overarching story, characters, support conversations, and branching dialogue.
PROJECTS
Choices: Stories You Play, iOS and Android App - Pixelberry
Writing Lead, 2024 - 2026
Successfully launched 8 books across romance, sports, and fantasy genres.
Writer, 2017 - 2023
Written/edited 160+ chapters.
EDUCATION
SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART & DESIGN, Savannah, Georgia
B.F.A, Dramatic Writing, Minor in Creative Writing, 2015
SKILLS
Game Development
Branching Narrative | Creative Writing | Interactive Narrative Writing | Editing | Proofreading | Production | Cross-Departmental Communication | Mobile Games
Technology
Google Suite | Microsoft Office | Jira | Basecamp | Confluence | Github