Hi! I'm Nessa, a game writer and narrative designer with 4+ years of experience and I'm looking for work! I am:
✨Skilled in creating engaging stories, dialogue, and in-game text
✨Experienced working on AAA and indie projects
✨Collaborative, communicative, enthusiastic!
@FailedAsian
I will literally never forget when he pulled his fancy car right up next to my mom's minivan, blasting music, while we loaded cookie crates into the trunk
Today is a sad day at Bungie as we say goodbye to colleagues who have all made a significant impact on our studio. What these exceptional individuals have contributed to our games and Bungie culture has been enormous and will continue to be a part of Bungie long into the future.
Xbox only focusing on “high-impact hits” and Netflix only making second seasons of TV shows if they go Stranger Things-level viral is going to result in a really fucked up cultural and artistic wasteland in a few years
really though the more I think about it, the more I think that calling literal crimes and discrimination “frat boy culture” is really minimizing and belittling
the people out there putting roofies in drinks deserve to be chased out of the industry with fucking torches and pitchforks. there's no atoning for that and there's no "well *I've* never had a bad experience with him."
someone in Las Vegas mentioned Primm and it took every bone in my body to reply with “oh where’s that?” instead of “I know exactly where that is it’s a prominent location in 2010 rpg Fallout: New Vegas and there’s a robot sheriff-“
I'd love to watch a video of him attempting to use AI to "push the boundaries of storytelling." I wanna see him try to convince me, in real time, that the "content" chatgpt "makes" by mashing together bits from cliché writing books and stolen work is "revolutionary"
Naughty Dog co-president Neil Druckmann says he thinks AI technology will "revolutionise how content is being created" and "push the boundaries of storytelling".
today I was swimming at the gym and there were two little old ladies gossiping and when they saw me slowing down to listen (oops lmao) they were like “do you want the whole story. we’ll tell you if you want” and now I know way too much about the drama in their walking group
We are beyond excited to announce
@StarTruckerGame
, a single-player Space Trucking simulator! Just premiered in the
#FutureGamesShow
! 🤩
🚛 Haul cargo
🤝 Trade salvage
🔧 Upgrade your truck
☄️ Travel the ultimate open road, space!
Coming 2024! Wishlist upon a star TODAY! 🌠
Super excited to announce my new project:
WELCOME BACK
A train station that only offers service to liminal spaces. Only one way out. Each time you try to leave, the train returns... And reality is starting to unravel.
Coming February 2021!
I think it's Very Cool that Hitman used a real Cold War-era chess game for their Cold War-era level - this is a famous world championship game from 1972 (Fischer v. Spassky)
I helped
@osamadorias
write his
#GDC
awards speech - I wrote the Halo knock knock joke and told him he was the only person on the planet who could open with a knock knock joke and nail it. I’m so honored to have helped him make everyone groan at jokes all night
Pentiment when Andreas has the choice of “Can you ever picture someone clearly if you love them?” vs “Can you ever picture someone clearly if you hate them?”
hi I’m Nessa! I’m a game writer and narrative designer, currently working on games like Waves of Steel and Forever Ago! I’ve written a few fun twine games and was lead writer for OnlyCans, and I have a lot of Opinions about Saw
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
THE FOREST OF CANDLES (AND THE MAN WITH A LIGHTER) is a surreal horror Twine game about local legends, childhood fears, missing friends, and wildfires.
Coming to itchio in mid-October 2021 🔥
I'm not usually a snarky poster like this but holy shit it makes me mad when people making Astronomical Amounts of Money are like "man :( sure is a shame :(" when they had power to prevent mass layoffs and did not utilize it
thinking about my college theater teacher and how she was just a little elderly lady who liked to stir up shit. she had all of us in class pair up and ask each other the "36 questions to fall in love" as if that was a good idea and wouldn't cause any problems at all
a huge (unannounced) project I wrote for was canceled today and it sucks, knowing stuff I wrote will never see the light of day. this is the first time it's really happened to me and I'm a little bummed out
my 71yo dad: wait what is narrative design
me: okay so it’s like in a video game you’ve got-
my dad: wait what’s the difference between a video game and a movie
me: well the interactivity of it and games are-
my dad: can you define “game” for me
me:
me: well…
me:
me: no
did y'all know that there's a reference to Ken Russell's highly controversial horror film The Devils (1971) in the new Space Jam movie. because I didn't and it's really fucking me up
"The forest never forgives, and neither do I."
The Forest of Candles (And The Man With A Lighter) is my new Twine game about local folklore, betrayal, and wildfires.
Out now ⬇️🔥
me two years ago: no one can know I wrote cringey fanfiction. I’m a professional now
me today: EVERYONE READ THIS ARTICLE WHERE I TALK ABOUT MY MARVEL FANFICTION
Do game developers love fanfiction? Yes, yes they do. A lot. Many started their careers in games through fanfic!
We talked to several developers about the power (and messiness) of writing fanfic.
I got a new mattress today and I tipped the delivery guy a $20 when he brought it to the front door and he was like “really?? for me??” and I was like yeah man!! and he literally went “YIPEE!!!” and jumped up in the air and I hope he has a good day
the talk I did at GDC about intentional branching in game narrative is up for FREE on the GDC vault! anyone can watch it! come for the Pentiment talk, stay for the small explosion!
Super excited to release WELCOME BACK, an interactive fiction twine game about a train station that only services liminal spaces, and your journey to find someone important to tell them something important.
It IS a weapon though! You literally said “that should make people mad.” You’re weaponizing masses of people to harass an indie dev over a month old Twitter thread that you deliberately misinterpreted and decided to use as bait!!
The idea that I brought up the topic to use it as a "weapon" against devs is gross. Xalavier said that a $200 million dollar risk could take "an entire wave of studios with it." That should make devs and gamers mad. The bosses of companies placing those $200 million bets are
I don’t have any “damn more layoffs?” posts in me. all I’ve got is that I still truly believe the best days of our industry are ahead of us, not behind us, and caring for each other right now when everything is shit is so vital to that
hi! I’m Nessa and I’m a game writer and narrative designer with three years of game industry experience. I’ve worked on stuff like OnlyCans and Endoparasitic and Waves of Steel and lots of other things and I’m proud to be a gamedev!!
#WhatAGameDevLooksLike
A major Insomniac leak has happened revealing:
• Entire game slate leak until 2030
• Personal info of many employees
• Masses of ‘Wolverine’ footage/gameplay
• More than 1TB of internal data leaked
hi
#VisibleWomen
! I’m Nessa, a narrative designer and game writer! I’ve worked on over 10 indie games including Endoparasitic and OnlyCans! thanks for Perceiving me!! 💖
the most hearty and genuine "go fuck yourself" to folks who wake up and decide to jump to insane conclusions about game developers and post them on the fucking internet without an ounce of knowledge or awareness
I was lucky enough to be selected for the Amplifying New Voices program so I’ll be at GDC this year!! I can’t wait to see my friends and meet new ones!!
today I was literally crying in the Starbucks drive through and I was trying to keep it together and the woman at the window was like “oh sweetie… here take this” and just… handed me an extra oat milk latte