Narrative designer, game designer, scriptwriter, writer.
Liberal Arts and Digital Humanities degrees holder, chose creativity instead of an academic career. An aspiring game designer with a strong academic background in humanities. Fast learner, highly motivated to grow in the game development industry. Strongly believe that work should be enjoyable and challenging in order to always move forward. I take pride in my ability to dive into new projects quickly, delivering results as a part of teams large and small and as a solo developer, and the consistent quality of the content I create.
Class: master of verbal magic, hits harder than any weapon
Background: digital humanistAlignment: chaotic-good
Experience and Education:
I graduated Universities being promised that I can become whoever I want. This promise brought me to my dream of working as a screenwriter. And — boom! — I decided to become a narrative designer. I am good in writing out characters and plot details. My education allows me to be historically specific if needed, at the same time my passion and creativity allows me to be free in my fantasies and ideas. I am a responsible worker and put my energy in every task and every job that I get.
- Game Development industry experience
Worked on remodelling old content to keep up with new standards, as well as created new content for the core plot (full quest flow and dialogs).
Developed additional special content from concept to final polish and release. Additionally worked on updating documentation for the project.- Unannounced projects
Scripted and polished levels for five locations (two final locations of the first map, first location on second map and several unreleased locations). Wrote minor dialogs for those locations as well and fully wrote one level of unreleased location (main and minor dialogs plus quest names). - Education— Bachelor's in Liberal Arts and Sciences (History major), Master's in Digital Humanities;
— Studied cinema, literature, journalism, screenwriting, narrative design and game design at Universities and online courses;
— Languages: Russian (native), English (C1), German (A2), Latin and Ancient Greek (reading and translation). - Hobbies— Play games! I adore puzzle games and games with mystery. I love being a detective and figuring out the plot as it goes;
— I run a TG-channel (in Russian) about my gaming experience, as well as Instagram account with Sims 4 builds (guilty pleasure of mine);
— D&D player and master;
— Write novels for fun.
Portfolio
If you are interested in more specific pieces of work, please contact me. Also, if you are interested in my work samples in other languages (for example, Russian), please email me, and I will provide them upon request.
- Board game "Overcoming Anxiety". The result of an Introduction to Narrative Design course on Coursera. The link is the PDF version of the game. It is suitable for single player and for several players as well.
- Creative writing. Novels and excerpts of other texts in English.
- A play scenario "No return". I presented this play at Bard College as my final task for the Playwriting course in 2016.
- Narrative designer portfolio. Examples from completed tasks as a narrative designer or game designer. (in Russian)
- Academic and journalistic articles list. The list of articles I wrote with links to them. Language — English.
Narrative Designer
(Vilnius, Lithuania / Remote)
(Vilnius, Lithuania / Remote)
Telegram: @eseniia_no
E-mail: eseniia.novokhatskaia@gmail.com
E-mail: eseniia.novokhatskaia@gmail.com
