AFNarratives
Hello! My name is Adanna, and I am a Games Writer, Narrative Designer, Researcher, and Developer. I have experience in writing, scripting, designing, and implementing content for games. I love to write character-driven stories focused on people of color! Feel free to contact me for my resume and rates.
Contact: [email protected]
🚫DO NOT USE MY WORK FOR AI, CRYPTO, OR NFTS!🚫
Narrative Portfolio
A combination puzzle and dating sim game where the player attempts to revive their grandmother’s enchanted café in addition to recruiting (and romancing!) their fantastical coworkers. (Created for my portfolio, not a real game.)
Character Biography, Character Ability Table, Romance Event Script & Timeline
A pre-production RPG where a young mage, Yiesha Stoker, sets on an epic journey to find her missing aunt — and maybe save the world from demons on the way.
Character Biographies, Character Barks
You can also read a prose sample from Yiesha's Odyssey here!
The script for this Ink game can be provided upon request! Please contact me at [email protected]!
A mystery point-and-click adventure game where the protagonist, Clover, attempts to find the secret of an almost-lethal train crash.
(Created for my portfolio, not a real game.)
Character Biography, Item Descriptions
Games Experience
KISS U
Spirit Swap: Lofi Beats to Match-3 To
| Studio / Jam Name | Game | Genre | Role |
|---|---|---|---|
| Thurman Games | KISS U | Romance/Fantasy | Games Writer, Narrative Designer |
| Soft Not Weak | Spirit Swap | Puzzle/Fantasy | Games Writer |
| Sweetbaby Inc | Recommendation Dog | Puzzle | Games Writer |
| Otome Jam (2021) | Celestia | Romance/Fantasy | Games Writer, Scenario Writer, Editor, Implementer |
Talks & Presentations
Published Articles
Research
My research focuses on studying the intersection of digital environments, human behavior, and marginalized identities, such as race, gender, ethnicity, and sexuality, mainly through the context of video games.
Abstract Excerpt: Although understudied, microtransactions are becoming widespread in games, especially for the purchase of aesthetic variation in-game. In this paper, we review literature around representation in games and purchasing practices tied to player racial identity to provide insight on how in-game racial representational options and microtransactions may impact purchasing practices of players of diverse racial backgrounds.
Abstract Excerpt: Microtransactions are the purchasing of in-game items in video games, often using real money. Through microtransactions, game players can obtain a type of cosmetic called 'skins' that change the physical appearance of playable characters. Considering the default 'skin' in many games is that of a white male, there are various psychosocial and economic costs that may be extended to players of color when attempting to select skins for their avatars.
Introduction Excerpt: Those of us building these [AI] systems will choose which subreddits and online sources to crawl, which languages to use or ignore, which data sets to remove or accept. Most important[ly], we choose who we apply these algorithms to, and which objectives we optimize for. We choose the labels we create, the data we take in, the methods we use. We choose who we welcome as data scientists and engineers and researchers – and who we do not. There were many possibilities for the design of the
technology we built, and we chose this one. We are responsible. (Raji, 2020)
Yiesha's Odyssey
Art Credit: Erchitos
The script for this Ink game can be provided upon request! Please contact me at [email protected]!
Art Credits [In Order]: Koidoodles, Lookhereyouare
Ligerbombz
Yiesha’s Odyssey is a fantasy RPG that I am currently developing! The player is Yiesha Stoker, a young mage from Windmill Island traveling the land in search of her missing aunt. During her travels, she is joined by a vampire heiress and a showman thief to find the truth of her aunt’s disappearance and slay the evil behind it. If you'd like to read a prose sample from Yiesha's Odyssey, click the image below!
Isioma & Yiesha Art Credit: Poppliy
Team Y: The Beginnings
A set of comics commissioned from Ligerbombz highlighting Yiesha's first meetings with her teammates!