Kalyskah is an adult dark fantasy RPG with immersive elements where you play Kalyskah Karnstein, the first vampire.
​As Lead Game Writer and Narrative Designer, I had a hand in nearly everything. I was responsible for not only interacting and managing the writing team but also executing the game developer’s visions and communicating with the many other branches of the company. On top of that, my main responsibility was writing interactive storylines, quests, dialogue, locations, characters, lore, and heavy world-building.​
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As a long-time and flexible member of the team since 2018, I helped wherever I could, so I also have done some voice acting, written songs (and recorded demos), inputted dialogue into Unreal, split audio files, and created art for the game.
Lead Game Writer &
Narrative Designer
Story Roadmap &
Prologue
In this video, I explain the next steps of development on the story side. I review what we already have as well as hint at what is to come. This is just some of the work I do as a Lead Game Writer on Kalyskah.
My day-to-day workload with Kalyskah is to write quests, be they main or side, and dialogue between characters I created. Here is a video of a scene from a quest I have written for the prologue section of the game.
Quests, Characters, & Dialogue
Here is a demo I recorded and wrote for bards to sing within the game. The song is a reference to "The Great Fall", an old, cataclysmic event that set humanity back thousands of years in the game.​
For voice acting, I have voiced a few NPCs.
Voice Acting & Songs
The less glamorous but equally important part of my role includes making simple quest guides, reviewing/editing public announcement posts for our supporters, describing each with full detail each location in a document for the level designers to follow, and other duties like combing through the game for typos that might occur when the dialogue gets put in the game.
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Here is a guide for the side quest The Missing Husband.
Quest Guides & Other Duties
Kalyskah - 'The Missing Husband'
In this side quest written for the dark fantasy RPG Kalyskah, the player discovers a marketplace vendor begging for help to find her missing husband.
Kalyskah
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'Seeker of Truth'
Main quest written for Kalyskah. Kalyskah meets and pairs up with Akrasiel to infiltrate the Seekers base. Deep within their prison lies Laver, the friend Kalyskah believes betrayed her ten thousand years ago.
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This document is a first draft of the main quest and dialogue- not including scripted dialogue.