Narrative Designer and Game Writer

Hi! I’m a narrative designer, game writer, language nerd, and Dante fan with 2 shipped PC games and 4+ years of writing and production experience. I specialize in crafting immersive speculative narratives, with a focus on cozy/fantasy games.

The Ouroboros Express - shipped!

Small Loan Studio

Roles: Narrative Designer, Editor, Marketing Content Creator, and Voiceover Production AssistantEngine: Ren'PyCollaborated with 30+ teammates over 5 months for successful patch 1.1 Steam release of a fantasy romance visual novel in December 2024!Co-conducted narrative tone pass of a 54,000+ word script within 3 weeks ahead of voiceover script lock.Co-managed content creation calendar and published 7 posts across 4 social media channels over 2 months.Facilitated 4 voiceover recording sessions over 2 weeks.Resolved and implemented edits requested by 12 QA tickets within 2 weeks.Play game >>

The Maze Gallery - shipped!

Cryptic Conservatory

Roles: Narrative Designer, Editor, and ProducerEngine: Ink/InkyShipped for IFComp 2024 and ranked 20th out of 67 entries (top 30%)! Also won the IFDB's Outstanding Ink Game of 2024 award with a tie!Collaborated with 30+ people over 6 months to write, edit, design, and implement 93,000+ words of non-linear branching narrative in Ink.A literary nonsense interactive fiction game set in a surreal art museum.Play game >>

Carving with Care - game jam project

Gelatinous Cat Games

Roles: Co-Narrative Designer and Co-ProducerEngine: Unity (YarnSpinner and Crochet dialogue addons)Submitted to Indie Game Academy's Foundry Jam 2024.Co-led production and co-wrote and implemented script with branching dialogue and branching narrative for 9-person team to develop a cozy atmospheric game within 1 week.Assisted with brainstorming pitch within 4 days for jam's concluding pitch presentation.Play game >>

We are on the dialogue screen in the game "Carving with Care". To the left, a window looks out on the sea. To the right, wind chimes jingle and turn green when a new customer dialogue is ready. The first customer is a grumpy elderly white fisherman.
We are in the workbench scene in the game "Carving with Care". On the left edge of the workbench is a teal chisel. On the upper right half of the workbench is a rune journal with instructions. On the bottom left half of the workbench is a carving surface.

Moving In and Moving On - game jam project

Gelatinous Cat Games

Roles: Lead Producer and Co-WriterEngine: GameMaker (YarnSpinner and Crochet dialogue addons)Submitted to Ludum Dare 55 game jam (rated top 30% overall; top 15% in mood).Led production and co-wrote script for 7-person team to develop a heartwarming visual novel within 72 hours.Play game >>

Let's get in touch!

Reach out to me on LinkedIn or drop me an email if you want to collab on a project! Or if you want to nerd out about Dante or languages.

Writing Samples

Check out my game writing samples:- a cutscene script;
- location and item descriptions; and
- a quest conversation.More samples available upon request!

A circular portrait of Sisi Peng, a smiling Asian woman with black hair.

Sisi Peng

Narrative Designer

Hi! I’m a narrative designer, producer, language nerd, and Dante fan with 2 shipped PC games and 4 years of writing and production experience. I specialize in crafting immersive speculative narratives, with a focus on cozy/fantasy interactive fiction and visual novel games in my personal projects.

Skills

Narrative Design

Interactive storytelling, branching dialogue, branching narrative, worldbuilding, character development, scriptwriting

Games

Twine, Ink/Inky, Unity, YarnSpinner, Crochet, Godot, Dialogic, Ren'Py, GameMaker

Productivity

Microsoft Office Suite, Google Suite, JIRA, Confluence, Notion, Miro, Github, VS Code, Zoom, Slack, Trello, Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, Kanban

Marketing

Copywriting, Figma, Canva, OBS

Computer-Assisted Technology (CAT) Tools

MemoQ, OmegaT

Languages

US English - native, French - fluent, Italian - fluent, Mandarin Chinese - intermediate, LATAM Spanish - intermediate