SHANNON CHOU

• RESUME
• GAME WRITING PORTFOLIO

Hi, I'm Shannon!I'm a Taiwanese American writer, artist, and game developer based in Los Angeles, CA. Sometimes also three raccoons in a trench coat.Current: Lead Writer at Pastel Magic // Narrative Designer at Folding Star // Writer at DOTSPrevious: Writer / Narrative Designer (Go Face Games, PlayMe Studios, This Magical Girl is a B*tch, Belle Automata, One Final Moment of Clarity, The Sorrow of Silk, The Working Woman's Guide to Burning Bridges)
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'23 Women in Games International Mentee for the WIGI Mentorship Program
'23 IGDA Foundation's Velocity Cohort for the Virtual Exchange Program
Spring '23 Cohort for Pixelles Game Writing Program
Fall '22 Cohort for Code Coven's Intro to Game Making in Unreal Engine

PROJECTS

LINEAR DIALOGUE:
cruel and unusual
10 pages - screenplay
^{an abysmal first date involving unfinished sandwiches and unfinished business.}

send in the clowns
3 pages - precombat cinematic (side quest)
^{The player wanders into a hostage situation perpetuated by a criminal troupe of clowns.}

bare hearts
4 pages - companion quest cinematic
^{Peregrine, is a powerful, long-lived wizard cursed to burn through his magic unless in bird form. His latest efforts to undo said curse lead to unexpected (romantic) tensions.}
BRANCHING DIALOGUE:
nothing gold can stay
3 pages - npc dialogue chain
^{there is a man in the vents. it would be pertinent to ask what he's doing there.}

campus umbrella
2 pages - visual novel excerpt
^{sometimes pining involves putting on a two-person horse costume.}

BARKS:
terminal city
2 pages - environmental barks
^{10 hour nein-c train station ambience.}

wean
2 pages - shopkeeper barks / character sheet
^{Jadzia is, as always, a professional.}

signified
2 pages - combat barks (deckbuilder)
_{wandering from room to room, fighting abomination after abomination...}

OTHER:
the retirement farm for legendary heroes
1 page - item descriptions
^{lootable items on the farm where old heroes are put out to pasture.}

daughters of sand
2 pages - party banter
^{dysfunctional dynamics in the desert.}