'LEXIE'
Interactive Narrative Designer
Alexandria Franka Maria is...
An Utrecht-based game and interactive narrative designer, with her roots in D&D homebrew.
A Creative Media and Game Technologies graduate.
A master's student at PZI, pursuing a thesis on play as artistic development.
Interested in interactivity as a means to broach critical and educational topics.
Glad to receive a message about whatever!
RESUME
The Anders Cyclopaedia
(Graduation Project)
Lexicology and Exploration
An experiment of merging digital and pen & paper gameplay. Explore a parallel world and record its denizens to your Cyclopaedia.
Genre: Third-Person, Exploration, Puzzle
Engine: Unity
Duration: 20 weeks
Itch.io link: The Anders Cyclopaedia
Companion Paper: No Stupid Questions
Contributions
Visual Design
- Modelling and texturing a 3D player model.
- Modelling and texturing 4 Andersian creatures.
- Modelling and texturing various environmental assets.
Level Design
- Designing 3 explorable areas.
Animation
- Rigging and animating each creature.
- Rigging and making a few custom animations for the player character.
Game Design
- Establishing the core premise of the game.
- Designing 5 main areas, each with their own puzzles and level elements.
- Designing the Cyclopaedia aspect of the game.
Narrative Design
- Writing all of the game's dialogue.
- Implementing narrative "pipe" scenes between explorable areas.
- Writing the Cyclopaedia, with the addition of narrative tidbits to be used in puzzles.
Audio Design
- Production and implementation of various sound effects.
- Production of 1 musical track.
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