Cryamore is a narrative-driven, Action-Adventure game I’m currently working on that tells the story of an intelligent but quirky bookworm named Esmyrelda Maximus. She discovers that the study and use of the titular elemental resource has an ever-growing negative effect on the island of Noka, and is a lot more mysterious and deadlier than it is purported to be by the society she lives in.
It’s essentially a love letter to games like The Legend of Zelda, Alundra, Brave Fencer Musashi, and niche JRPGs. I handle a lot of the tasks from planning, game and character design, writing, programming, asset creation, and building. The ambitious project originally began development in 2013 with a successful(?) Kickstarter campaign and caught the attention of Atlus USA, but the original build has since been cancelled and is now being re-developed from the ground up in Unreal Engine 5 with a more modern presentation and capabilities.
Rat Rage was an anthropomorphic graphic novel I wrote that I’ve attempted to draw off and on throughout the course of my career. It tells the story of Rai Rivet, a peculiar rat trying to make his way as a bodyguard in a city where justice is bleak. However, everything is not as it seems and he’s propelled into a grandiose story of action, mystery, and conspiracy when he agrees to protect a meek, country mouse girl named Nini.
I originally started this project when I was about 10 years old, and it’s my oldest personal property to date. So, it’s an amalgam of everything I loved growing up: Sonic the Hedgehog, Samurai Pizza Cats, Megaman X, 90s shonen anime, and video games. All the characters are well-developed, and the story has been long finished. I initially wanted it to be a video game, so whenever I do come across it again, maybe that will be its final output. Who knows at this point.
Martyrium is a resurrected dark supernatural sci-fi concept from when I was in high school. In the future, a group of young super soldiers fight wars in the name of “god”. The main hero Onyx becomes conflicted with his allegiance, and his cognitive dissonance spirals into a huge ordeal that questions the idea of "faith" itself. This idea resurfaced around the time I found myself in a similar kinda predicament with religion...
I originally was influenced by stuff like Evangelion, Xenogears, Metal Gear Solid, and the Crusades for this one. Pretty edgy stuff. Since I’ve recently started roughing away at this in my spare time, I kinda consider this my newest IP and don’t really know what I want to do with it. I kinda want to turn this one into a game. Heck, everything I’m coming up with will probably be a video game. Shoot for the stars, amirite? I even already made an unfinished anime opening animatic for it (pictured above).
