Writing | Narrative Design

A bartending murder mystery game created for my third large group project at Futuregames.

• Group project, team of 13

• Timeframe 7 weeks

• Skills: Narrative Design, Dialogue, Writing, Audio

• Software: UE5, ElevenLabs, Audacity, Perforce, Inklewriter

This was my first group project focused primarily on narrative design, which was a fun challenge. I created the character personalities and histories, the murder mystery story, dialogue branches, clues, and character drink preferences. I also wrote the main character's intro and ending monologue, generated all VO for the five characters, and implemented the music.

One major challenge was a delay in adding dialogue and VO into the engine due to difficulties with the dialogue system. I initially used inklewriter to add and test the script, which proved beneficial for early external testing.

Murder On The Rocks is available for download on itch.io.