Solo Developer
March 2024
Featured in the 2024 Queer Games Bundle
About the Project:
After a sudden, catastrophic event on Earth, a mysterious little creature emerges in a state of extreme confusion and loss. They are in search of answers, whether that be a sign of life, food, water, shelter—anything to take their mind off of the oddities of reality. But when voices from a world beyond begin to communicate, they must journey across the unfamiliar, yet familiar landscape in search of hope.
In Tragedy, There is Inspiration
• Grieving through the passing of my grandmother through writing poetry, as inspired by her work as an English teacher.
• A theory of a wandering spirit that influences through the way it interacts with the environment helped me not just throughout the process of grieving, but also creating the world of In Search Of.
• To flesh out the intricacies of this world in preparation for a TTRPG zine, I created a narrative design document.
Executive Summary
Map of Earth
Turning a Design Document into a Zine
• Inspired deeply my grandmother's favorite poems, the beautiful flow of James Baldwin's writing, and A Thousand Thousand Islands' Mr Kr-Gr zine.
• Able to reimagine the TTRPG genre as something that could leave more freedom for players to imagine with a base understanding of the world's structure.
• Sometimes, the questions we keep asking ourselves may never get answered, and that's quite alright. This theme is present throughout the zine, and is also something I learned about the process of grief and design.
TTRPG Zine Cover
Example Gameplay Mechanics
Excerpt from TTRPG Zine
Tools I Used
Google Docs: writing and editing
Adobe InDesign: design and format of the zine
Adobe Illustrator: logo and graphics
Paper and Pencil: sketched artworks