Narrative role
The Choice follows a protagonist trapped in a repeating day who must observe routines, uncover clues, and understand the conflict behind each cycle.
Role: Narrative Designer. The other team members handled programming and 2D art.
Narrative design in a multidisciplinary team
The Choice
The Choice is a released time-loop interactive-fiction mystery built around observation, dialogue, emotional control, and clue-driven discovery.
- Role
- Narrative Designer
- Context
- Three-person team project
- Period
- 2025
- Status
- Released Windows build
Narrative work
- Designed narrative content and progression for the team-developed interactive-fiction project.
- Worked within a three-person team alongside dedicated programming and 2D art roles.
Design decisions
- Repetition as narrative structure
- Each loop gives the player another opportunity to recognise patterns and uncover information rather than simply repeating content.
What was hard
- Making repeated events feel purposeful instead of redundant.
- Structured discovery around observation and accumulating context about the characters and their routines.
Released build
The team delivered and packaged the interactive-fiction project as a complete Windows build.
What I took from it
- How narrative intent must be communicated across writing, programming, and art roles.
- How repetition can support discovery when each cycle changes the player’s understanding.
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