Without Regret

Creative Direction

As Co-Creative Director, I helped define the game’s core vision and tone, ensuring cohesion across narrative, gameplay, and visual presentation. I guided the team in aligning mechanics and aesthetics with the game’s themes, focusing on emotional tension, player choice, and narrative payoff.

Key Contributions

• Established tonal pillars for pacing and player experience

• Ensured narrative, art, and design supported multiple endings and player agency

• Oversaw consistency across systems, visuals, and storytelling

Level Design & Environmental Considerations

I designed and supported levels that reinforced greater game-wide themes, narrative ambiguity, and emotional pacing. Spaces were built to feel melancholy, disorienting, or deceptively familiar, guiding the player’s emotional state as much as their physical movement.

Key Contributions

• Designed level layouts that supported smooth pacing, player curiosity, and suspense

• Used spatial composition to encourage melancholy and uncertainty

• Supported puzzle and objective integration within levels to maintain narrative and emotional continuity

• Considered sightlines, player flow, and spatial rhythm to control tension and release

• Collaborated with narrative and art to embed story context into environments

• Iterated on layouts based on playtesting, readability, and emotional impact

2D Art & Visual Design

I created 2D assets that reinforced mood, clarity, and feedback while integrating seamlessly into a 3D environment.

Key Contributions

• Designed 2D emote VFX to communicate emotional states and narrative beats

• Created tileable floor textures optimized for modular environments

• Developed UI and menu designs that balanced readability with atmospheric tension

• Produced design mockups to prototype visual direction and support iteration

• Generated 2D cutscene art that produced visual clarity, emotional impact, and narrative cohesion.

Narrative Design

I contributed to shaping a psychologically driven narrative centered on choice, consequence, and unreliable perception.

Key Contributions

• Developed narrative structure supporting branching paths and multiple endings

• Wrote and refined story beats, environmental storytelling elements, and thematic motifs

• Ensured narrative aligned with puzzle design and player progression

• Collaborated closely with designers to integrate story into gameplay systems

• Designed quests that intertwined narrative discovery with player decision-making

• Supported puzzle design that emphasized tension and mechanical cohesion

• Balanced player guidance with ambiguity to encourage interpretation and replayability

Marketing and Promotional Design

I developed a cohesive visual identity for Without Regret across marketing materials, translating the game’s psychological and loss-based themes into striking, recognizable assets.

Key Contributions

• Designed key art and promotional posters emphasizing tone, symbolism, and narrative intrigue

• Created physical-style assets including CD disk and box art to establish a complete, branded presentation

• Developed a range of promotional materials for digital and print use, maintaining visual consistency across formats

• Balanced readability and visual impact to ensure strong first impressions in storefront and marketing contexts

• Reinforced the game’s identity through cohesive typography, color language, and composition

• Edited and released the game's trailer.

Team Leadership & Collaboration

I worked cross-disciplinarily to keep production aligned with creative goals while supporting team communication and morale.

Key Contributions

• Coordinated between art, narrative, and design disciplines

• Provided creative feedback and direction during iteration cycles

• Helped scope features realistically within production constraints

• Supported a collaborative, feedback-driven team environment