Every discipline I work in is, at its core, a form of narrative design. When I build a UI system for a game, I’m asking: what story does this interface tell the player? When I shoot an editorial portrait, I’m asking what the image communicates before a single word is read. When I edit a short story, I’m tracing the architecture beneath the prose.

This is a methodology. Systems-level thinking about story is what separates a narrative designer from a writer who works in games. I understand dialogue trees, branching logic, environmental storytelling, and lore architecture not as isolated techniques, but as an interconnected craft that serves the player’s experience from first moment to final frame.

My independent project, Riftlight has been my proving ground for every one of these ideas. It’s where I’ve tested systems, broken them deliberately, and rebuilt them with better questions.