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MARTA A. J.

Hi there! I'm a Spanish Narrative Designer with more than five years of experience in making games and teaching. At the moment, I'm learning Unity while working on my own projects.


PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

DO NOT FEED THE MONKEYS 2099

I worked as a Narrative Designer and Writer on "Do Not Feed The Monkeys 2099", as well as on its two DLCs: "Two-cage Seasoning Pack" and "Four-cage Gourment Pack". My main tasks were:■ Writing the narrative bible.■ Writing the Worldbuilding.■ Designing and documenting the plots, mechanics and flows with the Game Designer.■ Writing the character sheets.■ Writing the dialogues in csv or json for their Unity implementation.■ Preparing documentation for the art, programming and Q.A. departments.■ Supervising localization.■ Testing.

VERNE: THE SHAPE OF FANTASY

The videogame "Verne: The Shape of Fantasy" is currently displayed in the Verne's museum exposition in Nantes.

I worked as a Concept Artist, Pixel Artist and Game Designer on "Verne: The Shape of Fantasy". My main tasks were:■ Creating the characters and scenarios concept art.■ Drawing the art of scenarios, characters, assets and puzzles in pixel art using Photoshop.■ Designing puzzles.■ Creating the characters animations atlas and integrating them in Unity.■ Testing.I was also in charge of gathering feedback from players in events such as Gamelab and Gamescom.


PERSONAL PROJECTS

I've developed some personal videogames to experiment with new ideas and softwares such as Inkle, Twine, Bitsy, Ren'Py and GDevelop.Some of them had great repercussion. For instance, "Safe in our World" wrote an article about "A Bit of Light" and the "Overkill Festival" crafted an arcade to display "You can't Win this Game" in their event in the Netherlands.


OTHER SKILLS

EXPERIENCE IN EDUCATION

I was in charge of creating the material used in the "Narrativa en Videojuegos" subject for the Bachelor's Degree "Diseño de Videojuegos" at UNIR (2023-2024).
This included the structure of said subject, as well as a 350-page textbook, exercise layouts, and 20 videos.
I worked as a teacher on the "Game Design para niños y niñas" online course from Gametopia (2020-2024).
This included structuring the course, providing the materials, and tutoring the students.

EXPERIENCE AS A SPEAKER

■ Discussion Panel "Contando Historias" in the "GameGen: 10 años de historia" Podcast (2024) and speaker in "¡Socorro! Hay un poco de juego en mi libro" in GameGenX (2025).■ Roundtable "Imaginando el futuro cuando se vive en él" in the event "Aragón: la autonomía en la era digital" (2024).■ Speaker in "Taller: Guión en videojuegos" in El Círculo de Bellas Artes (2021, 2022 and 2023) with the talk/workshop "El Narrador en Videojuegos".■ Speaker in "GameGen 8" (2023) with the talk "Sequels, hugs and rock'n'roll".■ Speaker in "SGD Talks" (2021) with the talk "Narrative Design o cuando ves tu mundo arder".