Crossroad Tales
Client: MIXI Games
Narrative Director, Writer, Designer
This Japanese mobile game company hired me to write a series of original choose-your-own-adventure-styled scripts for their American expansion of the game. Rather than adapting stories they had already, they instead asked me to write brand new ones from scratch. I narrative directed the game, and wrote the non-linear dialogue that offered myriad compelling and diverse story paths.
Scope:
a “Choose Your Own Adventure” themed video game, but with friends.
Below are the three stories I wrote and created for the client. These three stories had the highest “Player completion rate” among all of their various stories (games). Which means that players were more likely to complete the game all the way through for my stories.
Red Riding Hood, having recently survived an attack by a special “wolf-like” creature that abducted her grandmother, seeks out the famed huntress, Sam Van Helsing to help her catch the creature responsible. Amidst their quest to find the creature, the unlikely duo encounter a host of other familiar characters (and monsters) which include the likes of Drake (Dracula), Dr. Hyde, the All Mother (The Mummy), Thulu (Cthulhu), and more…
The zombie outbreak is ancient history. The new normal is segregated societies. One for humans and one for zombies. There is an understanding. You don’t bother us, we don’t bother you. But when a Zombie is murdered by a suspected human, the peace between the two societies hangs in the balance. An investigation is put into action where a human and a zombie investigator must work together to uncover the truth.
Sunny Hills High is your typical suburban high school. But when a group of students go missing, only to magically return 1 week later now acting completely different, Kelsey and Ruby Creed suspect something “unnatural” has happened to them. Pretty soon, the entire community start acting strangely too. The Creed sisters decide to launch an investigation of their own to find out what’s really going on. Now they must learn to get along and trust one another if they are going to uncover the mystery, before it takes them too.
Sample Script
Here is an excerpt from the original script and story that I wrote and created (Once Upon a Nightmare). The final script was formatted into the standard video game script excel sheet, but for ease of reading, I am presenting it in a word doc (PDF).
I also designed the characters
