Amira's Blessing

August - December 2021

Shown at the 2022 USC Games Expo
Shown at the 2022 Games, Learning, & Society Conference at UC Irvine

My Role

Co-Creative Director with Jebby Zhang!
Principal Programmer
- Developed custom dialogue system
- Dynamic choice system
- Coordinated 2.5D movement in a 3D environment
Co-Writer
- Culturally competent character design
- Re-writing and scoping down where necessary, while maintaining core emotional experiences
Audio Lead
- Led a team of talented Berklee College of Music composers and sound designers

Unity 2020.2.1f / Visual Studio 2019
G Suite

Miro
Logic Pro X

Amira's Blessing is a single-player, 2.5D narrative game that is fundamentally about family, choices, and responsibility
Play as Micah, a twelve-year-old boy living in the desert with his nomadic people, twenty years after Moses led the Hebrews across the Red Sea (per the biblical story of Exodus)
- Explore a gorgeous, rich representation of an ancient sacred land
Interact with other characters such as Talia (Micah's best friend), Batya (his grandmother), and Asher (a father figure to Micah)
Players will struggle with the moral complexity of choices that have no clear “right” or “wrong”
- Navigate and deal with the consequences of such impossible choices
- This game asks us to reflect upon the following: How do the choices we make affect our lives? The lives of our families? The world?
*Content Warning: cartoonish dead bodies, cartoonish blood & gore