Amira's Blessing

August - December 2021

My Role

Co-Creative Director with Jebby Zhang!
Principal Programmer
Co-Writer
- We originally wrote a much longer story and narrative arc for this experience, in the fall of 2020
- However, the scope of this project dictated that we had to cut most of our material
- We re-wrote and designed as necessary, given our deadlines and time & energy
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