Narrative Designer & Game Writer

Stories live
in the spaces
between.

I build characters that clash, transform, and leave players thinking about them long after the screen goes dark.

Professional
Merge Mayor dialogue scene featuring Todd and another character
Live-Service Mobile · Shipped · StarBerry Games

Merge Mayor

  • Primary narrative designer across 24 levels and 3 districts, from brief to implementation
  • Designed 15 original characters with character profiles, reference boards, and personality briefs
  • Wrote 670+ dialogue lines across mission-driven story scenes, giving each district a distinct tone
  • Contributed to the rebranding of 5 city-district characters, including voice direction and personality alignment
  • Authored the game design spec for a restructured mission-progression system, reducing art dependency while preserving narrative pacing
Character Design Dialogue Writing Game Design Spec Character Rebranding
Personal Projects
Repeating heart flags — Love Loop cover
Interactive Fiction · Twine · Solo

Love Loop

A narrative experiment in player expression. Caught in a dimensional loop, the player repeatedly meets the same partner in different contexts — dialogue designed to reveal character through what is shown rather than stated.

Player Expression Show Don't Tell Character Through Subtext

Cover image by Freepik

Ghostly figure in a dark forest — Wraith Seeker cover
Interactive Fiction · Twine · Solo

Wraith Seeker

A branching narrative set in a witch-hunt village. The player navigates suspicion and trust as a witch in hiding, with two variable systems — Suspicion and Trust — shaping the climax across three possible endings.

Branching Narrative Variable Systems Choice Design

Cover image by Freepik

Level Design · Unreal Engine · Solo

Witch Hunter Camp

A narrative level expanding the world of Wraith Seeker. The player navigates a witch hunter camp, collecting ritual items and placing them on a forest altar to summon the Leshy — a Slavic forest guardian. Built around environmental storytelling and with simple Blueprint scripting.

Unreal Engine Blueprint Scripting Environmental Storytelling Level Design

Development stages — click any image to enlarge

Initial geometry rough-out
Rough-out
Block-out V2 — camp environment
Block-out
Top-down level overview
Top-down overview
Aerial view in-editor
Aerial — editor view
Altar V2 — Leshy summoning area
Leshy altar (V2)
Aerial view with Leshy guardian
Aerial — Leshy present
Camp interior with ritual altar
Interior — ritual altar

The gap between what they say
and what they feel.

"The most interesting thing about a character isn't what they want — it's the dilemma between what they think they want, and what they actually need. How they transform, or how they refuse to."

Sofia Sabarini — illustrated profile portrait

"What happens when you put two people in a room and let their personalities do the work?"

That's the question I keep coming back to. Characters, to me, are puzzles — not just about what makes them tick individually, but what happens when you mix them together. Who clashes and who doesn't. What kind of conflict arises purely from the friction of two personalities meeting in the same scene.

I bring that curiosity to 3+ years of professional work in live-service mobile games, with a background spanning game design and communication.

670+Dialogue Lines
15+Characters Designed
3+Yrs Experience
Languages
English Fluent German Fluent Bulgarian Proficient
Capabilities
Narrative & Writing
  • Story bible & character documentation
  • Serialised narrative writing
  • Dialogue & character voice
  • Game design spec writing
  • AI-assisted narrative consistency review
  • Twine prototyping (personal)
Design & Tools
  • Unity3D (content implementation)
  • Unreal Engine + Blueprint scripting
  • Miro, Jira, GitHub + Sourcetree
  • Content QA & bug reporting
  • Level design & blockout
  • Environmental storytelling
  • Cross-discipline collaboration
Production & Creative
  • Adobe Photoshop & InDesign
  • Adobe Premiere Pro
  • Community management (58K+ Discord)
  • Player feedback analysis
  • Zendesk & live support
Research
M.A. Thesis · SRH Hochschule, 2021

Quantic Foundry's Nine Gamer Types and Their Association with Narrative Preferences

A 457-response survey mapping gamer archetypes to narrative preferences across character, setting, mood, and story structure.

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B.A. Thesis · IU Hochschule, 2025

How Game Mechanics Portray Mental Illnesses

Analysis of audiovisual and control design in five indie games examining how mechanics externalise psychological experience and foster player empathy.

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Open to Narrative Design and Game Writing roles where characters and story take centre stage.