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

Experience Summary

• 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

​Tools Used

Unity 2020.2.1f / Visual Studio 2019
G Suite

• Burndown Chart
• Game Design Macro
• ​Sprints Breakdown

​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
  

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Production Document Screenshots