Jacob Long
Narrative Designer & Writer
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A narrative puzzle game
Skills: Dialogue, Narrative Logic, Dialogue Implementation
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Rogue-like hack-and-slash
Skills: Worldbuilding, Character Creation, Plot Structure, System Design, Gameplay Design, Voice Direction
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Recursion Error is an award-winning rogue-like hack-and-slash set in an original science fantasy world. You play as Leif, an immortal corporate agent. Utilize cybernetic enhancements and magic-infused weapons to fight your way to the Rethi Corporation HQ to recover the mysterious AI known as the Destiny Program.
Narrative Designer
Quietus, Student Project
First-person puzzle-platformer
Skills: Gameplay design, Documentation, Dialogue
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Traverse across the two parallel planes of existence with the help of your magical, talking boomerang.
Development and design team: Serena Lawhorn, Victoria Sanua, Lee Lee McNeil, Cyrus Pekarek, Farris Habib, Erika Taylor, Henry Tucker, William Gascoigne, Grace Feldman, Samuel Burdey, Jacob Long, Sarah Roach.
Example of Play:
Writer
Thunk, Student Project
Gameshow style browser game.
Skills: Dialogue, VO Direction
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Thunk is an exciting, accessible, design game for all ages using simultaneous mobile multiplayer to inspire creativity and promote divergent thinking!
Development and design team: Ben Schenerman, Beck Rivera, Arpit Singh Ahluwalia, Brianna Buissereth, Erik Martus, and Fidel Boamah.
A Quick Overview of Thunk:
Tir-Nan & the Secrets of Lumnalis
An original fantasy world to host my favorite tabletop RPG.
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This project began as a scattering of exhaustive worldbuilding notes, wikis and documents. I wanted to consolidate this information in a way that was easily digestible for my players.
Sample: Opening Page
The "Tir-Nan & The Secrets of Lumnalis" Sourcebook is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.”
ANCESTOR - Short Story
Death is but a hindrance to Leif, a corporate agent with a digitized mind capable of inhabiting new bodies after death. He searches for his lost younger brother in a cyberpunk world occupied by cybernetically enhanced foes, street gangs, and mega-corporations.
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Could a mysterious artificial intelligence grant him the answers he seeks?