Level Design

Inner Alliance (In Development) with Wero Creative

Inner Alliance is a turn-based tactics tabletop game with a video game version in development. The player’s objective is to navigate a fictional but realistic future of climate crises as part of a first responder task force to assist in evacuation, aid, and civilian recovery efforts.

The game is designed to inspire deeper thinking and reflection on “gender-responsive leadership, inclusivity and team cohesion in defense and national security teams” (Wero Creative). Players are encouraged to consider how intersectionality in identity has an impact on how they respond to crisis situations, and how biases and perceived trust can inform treatment within teams and community outreach for vulnerable populations.

Bei’s role: Level designer for early development of the single-player video game version. Wrote dialogue in levels he designed inspired by the overarching narrative design and direction of the tabletop format.

Bei presented at Toronto Games Week (2025) on behalf of the development team for the game.

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Narrative Design

What is Left to See (in development)

What is Left to See is a branching choice visual novel situated in the science fiction genre. You play as Harper, a person who has undergone life-saving genetic therapy to adapt to rising water levels that will flood Earth. As a selkie-like creature, Harper abruptly loses the ability to perceive their human skin after moving from water to land.

This story explores the experience of body dysmorphia and gender dysphoria, and how one may grapple with those intersecting experiences during times of political injustice and global crises. A branching narrative provides the player with paths that consider how individual experiences of wellness may be obfuscated over survival without community to support them.

This game is being developed using Ren’Py 8.5.2 and Twine Sugarcube v2.

Bei’s role: Lead narrative designer, writer, UI artist, and 2D character/background artist.

Samples

Sample Scene 1: In the Pool

Summary: You are plunged back into a memory of teaching your younger sister how to swim, but warped as part of a dream. You explore Harper’s body dysmorphia in their genetically altered seal body impacted by family members’ reactions. 891 word count. Click to read more.

Sample Scene 2: Doctor’s Orders

Summary: You attend a regularly scheduled follow-up appointment with your genetic therapy clinician. During the appointment, you navigate how you trust your doctor, explaining your newly discovered invisibility, and parallels with limitations on clinical care for bodily dysphoria. 2863 word count. Click to read more.

Sample Scene 3: A Tough Call

Summary: After avoiding social visits with your friends, you find yourself alone at home, enduring monotonous solitude. It is interrupted by a call from your older brother who launches into a tongue-lashing regarding your late parents’ estate and how you’ve chosen to seal your own fate. 1254 word count. Click to read more.

Tabletop Game Writing

Bei has been a part of numerous private tabletop RPG groups who engage in text format role-playing scenes in character over the course of six years.

Scenes from these groups combine collaborative writing with live, improvised storytelling, reciprocally influencing how the narrative develops. Settings and tone vary across the campaigns ranging from high fantasy, to regency, to sci-fi fantasy.

Samples

Sample Scene 1: Snow Angels

Summary: Amorphos/Amy, a shapeshifter, joins Viktor, a party member posing as Amy’s brother, to make snow angels at the outskirts of a carnival. They reminisce on their pasts. 1500 word count. Click to read more.

Sample Scene 2: Pride, Prejudice, and Melee

Summary: Thaleia, an elf, challenges Palash, a deity’s descendant, to a sparring match rife with class tension and attraction. 4874 word count. Click to read more.

Sample Scene 3: Rift Adrift

Summary: Thaleia is joined by Delta, a party member and adoptive daughter, following a tense conversation with the fabled Dracula. They disentangle their histories with sinister figures, bonding over shared trauma. 6448 word count. Click to read more.

Sample Scene 4: A Meeting of the Minds on Matters of the Heart

Summary: Lord Oilliph Shannon makes his way, under the cover of night, through the dimly lit Academy to Professor Pendington’s personal laboratory. He seeks support and guidance on the subject of avoiding a disastrous arranged marriage. 6768 word count. Click to read more.

Sample Scene 5: Courtyard Confessional

Summary: Lord Oilliph Shannon poses as a member of his staff to engage a partygoer, Ms Cornelia Zephyr, in conversation, in hopes of finding gossip. It does not go to plan. 5107 word count. Click to read more.

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