Designed for ObjectiveEd, Transition Adventure is a tablet-based interactive fiction game prototype designed to help young people with vision impairments navigate complex social situations, communicate their needs, and develop job readiness skills. Players spend a summer at their grandparents’ house in the fictional town of Lilymist Valley, taking on their first job, making new friends, and forming connections that last a lifetime.

On this project, I…

• Co-wrote four hours of branching narrative content, balancing story coherence, educational goals, and scoring mechanics to deliver an engaging original product.

• Designed character arcs and special “narrative mechanics,” working in tandem with another narrative designer to ensure that my contributions fit within a preexisting vision for the game.

• Personally interviewed blind and low-vision users about their needs, turning their input into actionable next steps.

• Used positive communication skills to build strong rapport with subject matter experts and make them feel like their needs were being heard.

• Researched the Pacific Northwest in order to create a fictional but realistic setting: the town of Lilymist Valley.

• Managed my own time, creating schedules and timelines to ensure we stayed on track.

• Learned how to use the writing tool Inky and then taught another narrative designer how to use it.

• Created an iPad prototype using Unity, C#, and XCode that leveraged Apple’s accessibility features to make the game playable by users with vision impairments.