Trinket Studios. July 2025 - Oct 2025
I designed and balanced card abilities, combat encounters, progression systems, items, and puzzles for Battle Suit Aces, a turn-based RPG set in a galaxy inspired by Star Trek and classic giant mecha anime.
Studio Chyr. Oct 2024 - June 2025
Lead designer on Strata, a competitive multiplayer puzzle party game made in Unity using proprietary peripherals. Also, Puzzle designer on Hotel Infinity, a VR exploration game also made in Unity. On Strata, I fine-tuned block-placing, territory-capturing, objective-scoring, and game-ending rules. For Hotel Infinity, I designed the key puzzle interactions that break up your travel around the hotel.
Wizards of the Coast. Nov 2021 - June 2023
On Magic's Casual Play Design team, I critiqued and redesigned cards from the perspective of Magic's popular "Commander" format. My job was to preserve the exciting, transgressive abilities of high-profile cards without creating abusive or unfun play patterns.
Wizards of the Coast. July 2022 - June 2023
I led the team responsible for "Commander Parties", live events held in stores all over the world which add flavorful additional mechanics and powerups to normal Commander gameplay.
Level Ex. Jan 2019 - Nov 2021
I designed most of the levels in Cardio Ex, then led several post-launch updates for the game, including a client project. We later decided to do a major overhaul of Cardio Ex, for which I was the lead designer in the final three months of production.
Level Ex. Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
I designed foreign object removal and cancerous mass removal levels for Pulm Ex, Level Ex's interventional Pulmonology game.
Jackbox Games. April-Sept 2015 and Mar 2016 - Oct 2018
I provided quality assurance and also customer service for Jackbox Party Packs 1-5. I also managed every step in our user testing process for Party Packs 3-5, from gathering volunteers, to hosting and recording tests, to summarizing feedback to the team leads.
Lively Ivy. Jul 2014 - Jan 2015 & May 2016
I QA tested Gravity Ghost, an indie, physics-based, 2D platformer. I also coordinated volunteers to help us test the game. When Gravity Ghost was ported to the Playstation 4, I ran the game through certification testing.