Story-driven games and interactive fiction

Interactive fiction:

  • The Epigrapher: An epigrapher comes to visit you the day of your execution. A short conversation with some branching options. You can play it by going here.
  • The Lurer: You are a traveller who comes to a small fishing village in search of a legendary meal, only to find that the production has stopped. You must thus solve the mystery of why the lurer has stopped going out if you’re ever to get the meal you came all the way to get. You can play it here.

Video games:

  • Don’t Go into the Light: A platformer where you must continue to ascend lest you be engulfed by the light. The story revolves around the last moments of a man bleeding out on a battlefield — his conversation with his commanding officer, and his memories of his past. Made for Ludum Dare 51. Featuring audio and music by Carel van Hemert. You can play it here.
  • The Cycle: A point and click adventure. It tells the story of a girl who grew up in a forest with her adoptive mother, a witch. As the game starts, she’s returned from the outside world, and is now trying to make her way back to her mother to confront her about what she found. Winner of Narrative Driven Jam #7. Collaboration with Rubikow. I did the narrative design and most of the writing. You can play it here.
  • V.I.C.I.: A puzzle game where you help the operator solve a series of alien cyphers. Made for Wowie Jam 4.0. The story involves an artificial intelligence conversing with its operator. Collaboration with Carel van Hemert. You can play it here.
  • The Gift of Fire: An old-school dungeon crawler made for Dungeon Crawler Jam 2022 with memory-based combat mechanics. The story revolves around the theft of the Gift of Fire by the Rat King, and the efforts of a soldier of the Rat King to set things right for the world. Collaboration with multiple people (links on the game page). It did the narrative design and writing. You can play it here.
  • Doppelganger: A short turn-based stealth game made for Minijam 111. In the game, you are fighting other versions of yourself, hidden among normal people. You must remain hidden to sneak past the guards, lest the doppelganger is notified and flees. You can play it here.