The under presents
The Under Presents blends immersive theater and virtual reality, allowing you to step into a VR world where you'll interact with other characters as well as other participants. It merges live actors and scripted performances with a narrative arc that centers on themes of time, fate and free will. - The Oculus Team

Responsibilities
  • Collaborated with the design team to create a multiplayer interaction system that encourages exploration and teamwork in a central hub space
  • Worked closely with engineers and artists to design and script levels for a virtual space inhabited by both players and live actors
  • Concepted and modeled characters, props, and environments
  • Implemented art assets using proprietary tools in Unity

wildbrew: elli's adventure
Wildbrew is a puzzle adventure game about a young herbalist witch and his quest to retrieve a stolen family heirloom from a giant, troublesome plant. Use ingredients found in the world around you to craft magic potions, solve puzzles, and discover hidden items in a wilderness with secrets around every corner. 
See it on itchio.io

Responsibilities
  • Worked closely with the design and usability teams to iterate quickly on the design of the potion crafting system
  • Used proprietary tools to design and implement puzzle gameplay for collectible items
  • Concepted and modeled Elli, Grandma, and various other environment assets

Long Distance

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Long Distance is a week-long real-time narrative game framed within the context of a chat application, developed for iOS and Android devices. 

​Through chats, voice messages, and photographs, Long Distance follows the reunion of an estranged group of friends whose secrets have called something bad across from "the other side". Your friends must confront the secrets they've been hiding, or else risk losing everyone they love.

See Long Distance's GDD

​Responsibilities
  • Directed a team of six writers and engineers to create a playable prototype over the course of six months
  • Worked with writers to design a branching narrative with multiple paths and endings depending on player choices
  • Designed gameplay for a real-time interactive narrative system that still allowed for idleness to account for players' real lives
  • Met with the team for weekly scrums to check on each member's goals and progress, and discussed solutions for when deadlines could not be met
Development On Hold
Online Demo Coming Soon

Cat-A-Pillar!

 Cat-A-Pillar is a deceptively simple card game for 3-6 players centered around fighting mutated elemental cat monsters. In order to win, players must get 9 limb cards for their own cat by stealing their opponents' limbs.
The game was featured on Buzzfeed before successfully Kickstarting in August 2016.​ It then went on to become an Indiecade 2016 Tabletop Select.

Responsibilities
  • Led a team of 3 in designing, prototyping, and shipping a publisher-ready game
  • Planned and managed marketing strategy and social media for a successful Kickstarter campaign
  • Designed and illustrated all art assets for the game, including 18 unique cards, the box art, and the instruction manual

FROM LIGHT

Use your camera to light-paint your own platforms, freeze objects in place and solve challenging free form puzzles, in search of your missing friend.  From Light is a 2D puzzle platformer built in Unity about traversing a dying planet using the power of light and photography.

Responsibilities
  • Designed levels and platforming-based puzzles
  • Worked with designers and artists to create modular 2D assets that anyone on the team could use
  • Worked with designers and user researchers to implement and dress environments for player navigation
  • Concepted all characters, and 3D modeled the player character

Dark Soles


In Dark Soles, take on the role of a night shift shoe store clerk, bringing the best shoes a ghost could ask for to the nighttime crowd. A five week Unity project, Dark Soles requires players to figure out the customer's pair of dream shoes based on hints and keywords in their requests.

Responsibilities
  • Designed, prototyped, and playtested the core game loop
  • Wrote all dialogue and in-game descriptions
  • Scripted and implemented item acceptance/rejection system and hints
  • Created all in-game art

Game Jam Games

HypeWave: Battle of the Band

Hypewave: Battle of the Band is a crowd-surfing rhythm battle game made in Unity for the 2017 Global Game Jam.  Build up hype in the crowd by playing the song, and then use that hype to generate crowd waves and knock your bandmates out of the concert venue!

Katie Yu was a designer and 2D artist for the game and contributed various sprites and small animations.

Pillow defender

Pillow Defender is a simple tower defense game made for the 24 hour USC Hololens Game Jam. Build a pillow fort to protect your stuffed animals from the ghosts coming to steal them! If your fort didn't quite come together, you can go on the attack and launch pillows at the ghosts as well!

Katie Yu was a 3D artist and designer for the game and contributed the pillow and stuffed animal models/textures.