Impasto

Genre: Horror, Adventure, First-person, Single-player RPG
Platform: PC & Mac
Engine: Unity

Team: 40+ team members, 7 departments
Duration: March 2021 - April 2022

Impasto is a first-person horror adventure game inspired by the works and legacy of Francisco Goya, the revered yet tortured Spanish painter. Set within a world irreversibly altered by his fraying sanity, the player must use both stealth and wits to survive.

---Role(s) and responsibilities---

Narrative-Art Liaison

Storyboarded narrative sequences as they were written to establish rough visuals in the early stages
Collaborated with the design team on gameplay, puzzle and level design (Church district, Vault Puzzle)
Took ownership of 3 environmental art pieces - the vault puzzle, stained glass paintings and Saturn’s cave murals.
Storyboarded environmental narrative and guided artists in their creation (Church: glass paintings, Saturn’s Cave: Murals)

Narrative Designer

Overarching Storyline
NPC Dialogues (Judith, Don Claudio)
Directing the voice actor for Judith
Item and Quest Description
Item Ideation for Goya’s house and the Vault

Game Artist (2D/3D)

Style Studies
Skybox texture iterations
2D concepts
3D modeling, UV unwrapping, Texturing in Maya
Re-texturing and altering unity assets to match the game's art style

Playtester

Internal Playtesting and logging issues

---Reflection and Notes---

This was the project that marked my pivot into game narrative from animation. Inspired by the works of Goya, it taught me how to use research to generate ideas in a specific tone and creative theme.

Working with the narrative lead and creative director, I grasped the nuances of writing narrative documentation and game dialogue - concise, clear yet with a flow and style.

With the design lead, I learned the basics of gameplay, puzzle and level design, contributing to the church district, and taking ownership of three environmental art pieces - the vault puzzle, stained glass paintings and Saturn’s cave murals.

Through an iterative collaboration with artists and designers, I was able to contribute to key gameplay moments, which taught me how to present my ideas to different departments and guide a task to completion.