All concept art shown on this page was created by Vinz

My Role: Technical Game Design Lead

As one of three leads on the project, I managed a team of 4-8 technical designers for 16 months. Our project intentionally avoided relying on dedicated programmers, aside from the founder and an old colleague who joined for a few months, late in the project.
The Technical Design team created a fully-playable demo for publishers and integrated the work of all other disciplines.

My unique responsibilities as Technical Lead beyond supporting my direct reports included:

• reviewing, approving, and merging more than 80% of pull requests
• acting as the primary build guardian for our GitLab repository
• providing teamwide technical support for ~15 contributors
• interacting with other Leads to provide technical support

I am proud of the many achievements we realized in the creation of this demo, but unfortunately the studio was closed down in September 2026.

My experience as a teacher was important to help me lead our less experienced implementers, though I also worked with & learned from some extraordinarily senior designers & developers on Project Adam.

This gameplay still from our demo showcases stealth and survival horror elements.

Additional responsibilities;

• Led a small team in prototyping a new project
• Oversaw technical documentation efforts
• Collaborated with founder, Art Lead and Design Lead in creation of studio-wide processes for documentation standards

Here Rafael, the studio founder, narrates the gameplay as shown to our prospective publishing partners.