Cesca
Game Designer + Developer
The City of Sleepers
In a futuristic world, all resources are in abundance and for sale to the trillions of inhabitants of the world’s major cities. Even bodily energy has become a purchased commodity.
type: science-fiction, storytelling
Chinmoku: Final Paper
This paper was completed to fulfil my senior project requirement. It details the development of my horror/mystery language learning game, Chinmoku.
type: game development, postmortem
Hearthstone: Understanding the Popularity of Digital Card Games
type: game development, analytical
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back: Feminism and "Mass Effect"
This is an analytical paper about my observations of gender dynamics and stereotypes presented in Bioware's Mass Effect.
type: analytical, essay
Eroticism in Video Games and Other Pop Culture Media
This is an analytical essay discussing how eroticism is portrayed in games, using the visual novel style game Seduce Me as a primary example of common tropes.
type: analytical, essay
Character Dictates Gameplay: "The Last of Us"
This was originally written as an informal blog post documenting and exploring some of my throughts on the relationship between characters and gameplay design after playing Naughty Dog's The Last Of Us.
type: analytical, blog post