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Requiescat: The Dreadful

RoleCo-Founder & Technical Game Designer
GenreSurvival Horror
Timeline2025 – Present
StatusPlayable Demo

1.0 - Overview

Founded and drove development of Requiescat: The Dreadful, an indie survival-horror title set in the middle ages, taking it from concept through a fully playable demo. Being the co-founder of a small project meant covering the full pipeline - not just designing the game, but building the world and its atmosphere.

2.0 - Role Breakdown

Technical Game Designer

Tuned core mechanics and systems for pacing and difficulty, balancing gameplay across the full demo.

Level Design & Lighting Artist

Designed the demo's environments from the ground-up, shaping map layouts, flow and gloomy atmosphere to reinforce the game's horror tone.

Narrative Designer

Wrote the game's texts and dialogue, shaping tone and voice for its narrative.

QA

Tracked and resolved issues across testing passes, keeping builds stable through to delivery.

3.0 - Links