I'm a game designer and writer in Salt Lake City. Here you will find writing samples, past projects, and published works.

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My oldest projects include games from my college video game design courses at the University of Utah. There will be personal projects varying in stages of the development process including prototypes, levels, and complete games. Some projects are in collaboration with a team to achieve a finished product.

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Game jams are a way for me to creatively experiment with new game design ideas and collaborate on a team. These are meaningful experiences that help me grow as a developer and person. I'm currently working on my programming skills so that I could participate in a jam solo.

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BIODEGRADABLE BARRY
(2023)

MIDNIGHT DIAL
(2023)

*MIDNIGHT DIAL SAMPLES ON MIRO BOARD (ALSO IN DROPBOX AS CSV)

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Brittnie Gallegos
Salt Lake City, UT
Discord: brittsters_ / itch.io / [email protected]
(Other methods upon request.)

Work ExperienceCNA Stellar Senior Living (2019-2021)
Dealer Refund Specialist Prestige Financial Services (2021-Present)
- Managed communications effectively through email, phone call, and writing
- Adaptability, time management, multitasking, interpersonal skills, problem solving, following dead linesWriter SLUG Magazine, VisitSaltLake, Various Game Projects (2018-Present)
- Exceptional writing skills to produce engaging articles
- Applied understanding of topics through additional online research and supplemental material
- Managed deadlines with efficiency
- Communicated effectively with editorial staff
- Wrote pieces regarding local culture for digital/physical publication
- Held interviews over video call and emailHobbyist/Freelance Game Developer (2023-present)
- Consulted on game design documentation and design of systems, rules
- Writing branching dialogue featuring choice, exposition, and plot
- Narrative and Game design
- Character sheets, world building, dialogue
- Collaborating and working on a team with deadlines for sprints/builds
- Provided advocacy for story and narrative design on teams
- 2D art and UI design for use in-game
- 3D modeling assets for use in-gameEducationAS, General Studies Salt Lake Community College (2016-2019)
BS, English University of Utah (2019-2023)
- Minor in Entertainment Arts and Engineering ie. game design

~ Toolbelt ~
Game Design — Unity: <1 yr, Unreal: 1 yr, Gamemaker: <1 yr, Godot: < 1 yr, RPG Maker: 3 yrs, Twine: <1 yr2D — Gimp: 5 yrs, Adobe Photoshop: 5 yrs, Adobe Illustrator: 2 yr3D — Maya: 2 yrs, Blender <1 yrWord Processing — Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, etc: 8+ years, Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint: 10+ years

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Biodegradable Barry is a short point and click game about a racoon who is a little bit bitter about the way humans are treating the planet! It was a University of Utah Alternative Game Dev course game developed over one semester following the design process from pitch to wrap kit. The course emphasized "alternative" value for the game meaning that there had to be something else to it other than gameplay and fun. A message of some kind. My team of three landed on Biodegradable Barry which was my original pitch/idea.

Utilize Barry's prowess of the night as all humans are asleep. Use the "Recyclopedia" pages to sort trash correctly to get scored by Barry himself!
See some work below:

I was involved with a little bit of everything on this project. Above are some examples of specific art that I contributed to the project including item sprites, instruction pages, "Recyclopedia" pages, item info cards, dialogue and one-liners. The latter can be found in the writing samples tab. I bet you're wondering, hey, why is that screen black? Well, simply put, Bio. Barry has been shelved permanently as it was never completed before the semester ended. That's not to say that I'm not proud of it. Everything is a lesson. And I'm grateful to my team (Payton, Zuber) and the game.

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Midnight Dial is a landmark game for me. My first project outside of a game jam or school project that would be sold for actual money, if we had any luck at all. I met the designer, Sean, through Reddit when he reached out to me regarding a self promotional post I had made for myself after I graduated. I wrote test dialogue conversations after I was pitched the idea. I would hear back once Sean made his decision.

I got a message just hours later and was in game design discussion for the remainder of the day. I was ecstatic to have been chosen for something game dev related. Someone found value in what I produced so much that they chose me among other candidates.

I wrote extensive dialogue involving conversations from an assortment of characters of my creation from a conspiracy theorist radio host to an irritated park ranger to an angry citizen. This took many days to figure out what style these should be written in along with how the choices would affect gameplay. The limitations were that there is only one small area in the game, most of it relying on writing to carry certain story segments when the player interacted with certain objects or paths.

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