Where the Snow Settles
Details
Year: 2016 - 2021
Role: Creative Director
Company: Myriad Games Studio
More info: wherethesnowsettles.com
Skills
- Creative direction
- Narrative design & writing
- Team mentoring
- Game design & concept generation
- Unity game engine
- 3D model creation & texturing (Blender)
- 2D asset creation
- Definition of art pipelines
- Agile processes
- Task planning/scoping
- Time estimation
- Working with contractors
- Feedback & performance management
Overview
Where the Snow Settles is a narrative-driven adventure game that explores the fear of change and the growth that can blossom from periods of unknown. The narrative follows the journey of the protagonist as she looks for her sister and tries to understand her place in a desolate and supernatural world.
As a small core team of five, we all fulfilled a range of roles to ship the game. My input included asset creation, environment design, narrative writing, design, determining visual style, communicating vision, and documentation (just to name a few!).
We worked through this project as a way of learning about the full game development pipeline, and the experience has been invaluable. I’ve learned to work within tight constraints, understand the importance of respect and communication, and I’ve mastered the art of answering unknowns to solve all sorts of problems.
The game released on 23 July 2021 to Steam, Xbox, and itch.io.
