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Games

I've been playing video games for as long as I can remember, and it's my favorite hobby aside from drawing. It was sometime in middle school that I realized, as an artist, that a future where I was working on video games was possible. This tab serves the purpose of providing a collection of the games that I've managed to be a part of.

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In Your Orbit / 2024

How I contributed

"In Your Orbit" is a short visual novel I helped develop in collaboration with Ann Lohmueller, Gabriella Parrilla Infanzon, Nhi Tran, Linh Bui, Jaelynn Mitchell, Karina Komarova, Karen Almeida Mendonca, Lillian Runk, Evan Torner and Valerie West. This was developed under a curriculum in correspondence with the University of Cincinnati's Game Design program.

It is playable on itch.io through this link.

My work in this project consisted of creating sprites and background art, world-building, and script writing 25 pages of dialogue. The character I designed was from Neptune, named Halimede, done in Procreate. They are an overworked architecture student who likes collectables that you will meet while adjusting to your new life on Mars. Throughout the story, you learn more about what life on Neptune was like and the different wonders or hardships they experienced there. 

Halimede's sprites​ and backgrounds

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