Before Closure

As the Game Director...

• Rapid-prototyping: prototyped 6 drastically different playable narratives in 6 months around the eye-controlled interactions, landing on the right mechanic and story that shaped the experience goals of the final game.

• Interactive Narrative Design: collaborated closely with the writer, lead artist, composer, and voice director to make deliberate decisions on both the overall narrative arc and the detailed gameplay under tight resource and time constraints.

• Creative Direction: aligned the team behind a single creative vision through proactive, open communication, clear, succinct documentation (e.g., Game Design Macro), and playable prototypes, which kept the production well-scoped and the team on the same page.

As the Lead Engineer...

• Eye Detection: integrated MediaPipe and built a lightweight, efficient, real-time webcam-based eye detection system in Unity that became the technical foundation of the game after researching and benchmarking different eye-detection solutions.

• Project Architecture: designed and implemented project architecture across systems like scene management, input, interaction, audio, establishing boundaries and standards that let two other engineers build modular systems and features in parallel.

• Team Management: managed two engineers throughout preproduction and full production: assigning tasks, tracking progress, and leading code reviews.

• Implementation: authored in-engine gameplay sequences and owned the execution of the second-to-second experience while keeping it aligned with the larger project goals.

• Debugging: debugged across internal and third-party code using IDE debugging and Unity profiling tools; shipped 40+ versioned stable builds for Windows and macOS to support weekly playtests and major milestones.

As the Producer...