My personal work is hosted on the blog currently using this tag: briecs original. I also have some work on the Daedalum Analog Productions site, including my Monsterhearts skins and Clash, one of my first games.
My briecs.itch.io account has some products available for purchase, too!
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Game Publications, Design and Writing
Designer. Turn is a slice of life quiet drama about shapeshifters in small towns, exploring balance in identity and community.
Let Me Take A Selfie December 2017
Writer and designer for a collection of games that use selfies for mechanics.
Monster
Butts Gift Exchange December
2017
Designed and wrote a game for the Monster Butts zine created by Thomas
Novosel.
Halcyon
City Herald Collection: A Masks Supplement September 2017
Wrote Healing the Sick - Billing the
Rich?, Intake’s Motives in Cancer Case, Doctor Kim Revealed: His
Unbelievable Story, Goodbye to HMO’s? What is the Superhero Medical Plan? for the collection.
Of
the Woods: Lonely Games of Imagination May
2017
Writer, designer,
and curator for the collection of lonely (single-player) narrative games.
Fate of the Remnants November
2015-Present
Developer and writer for non-player
characters and some background fiction.
Various 200-word RPGs 2016, 2017
Designer of See No, Hear No, Eat and Charon.
Baby Bestiary, Volume 2 2015-2016
Designer of See No, Hear No, Eat and Charon.
Baby Bestiary, Volume 2 2015-2016
Fiction writing for a fiction and content
supplement for tabletop roleplaying games.
Bubblegumshoe June
2016
Writing support for drifts. 2017 Gold Ennie
Award Winner for Best Family Game.
The Name of God March
2016
Designed and wrote cards (fetishes) for
Kickstarter stretch goals.
Indie Mixtape Series 2015
Contributed small game to the Indie Mixtape
collection.
No Country for Old Kobolds March
2015
Wrote & designed creatures for the No
Country for Old Kobolds’ Guide to the Myriad Peoples of the
Orbs, or an Observational Journal of Wondrous and Strange Peoples, or My
Wandering Life and Friends.
Sound of Water, World of Dew Companion March
2015
Fiction writing for the tabletop
roleplaying game World of Dew supplement, Sound
of Water, specifically fiction and mechanics for Whispers of the
Fox Woman.
Baby Bestiary, Volume 1 January
2015
Fiction writing for a fiction and content
supplement for tabletop roleplaying games.
Demon: Interface October
2014
Wrote fiction and designed mechanics for
the Demon: Interface story Time to Go.
Firefly: Smugglers Guide March
2014
Design of Reputation mechanic and
Crewmember archetypes, as well as archetype flavor text. Released February
2015.
The Fate Codex - Life Locked January
2014
Short story for The Fate Codex: Life
Locked.
FASA Games 1879 Line November
2013 - January 2014
Fiction and flavor text, as well as
development of character types, for the 1879 line.
Game Publications, Editing
Various 200-Word RPGs 2017-2018
Proofread Poet Glorious by Kimberley Lam and copyedited Ask & Accommodate by Jonas Richter.
Fate of the Remnants November 2015-2018
Proofread Poet Glorious by Kimberley Lam and copyedited Ask & Accommodate by Jonas Richter.
Fate of the Remnants November 2015-2018
Serving as long-term editorial and
developmental editor for the Fate of the Remnants roleplaying game project.
Worlds Without Master 2013-2018
Proofread and reviewed stories and
games for Worlds Without Master by Epidiah Ravachol.
The Sword and The Loves December
2017
Editor of English translation, written
by Antonio Amato at Mammut RPG.
Viewscream 2nd Edition April
2016
Acted as the editor for Viewscream
2nd Edition with Rafael Chandler.
Lusus Naturae March
2015
Acted as the editor for Lusus
Naturae with Rafael Chandler.
World of the Lost March 2015
Acted as editor and proofreader
for World of the Lost by Rafael Chandler, a supplement
to Lamentations of the Flame Princess.
Rogue Comet (formerly RPG Society) 2013-2014
Acted as an editor for RPG products for
the RPG society on a periodic contracting basis.
The Last Candle February
2013
Responsible for copy editing and
proofreading The Last Candle adventure module.
Voicework, Dialogue, & SSML
SARA Virtual Personal Assistant for Carnegie Mellon University February 2013
Wrote dialogue for virtual personal assistant. Improved
text-to-speech for virtual personal assistant by revising SSML (Speech
Synthesis Markup Language).
Gattaibushido:FUSION! Mecha Pilot RPG Kickstarter September
2016
Provided voicework for Kickstarter video, recorded samples
for Nnedi, Bee, Layali, Miho, and Misty.
Consultation
Lovecraftesque July
2016
Acted as mental health consultant in regards to how mental
health is handled in the Lovecraftesque tabletop RPG.
Various 200-Word RPGs 2017-2018
Consulted for design on Poet Glorious by Kimberley Lam and design & disability on Ask & Accommodate by Jonas Richter.
Rates
Game Design: Contact for details, dependent on project complexity.
Game Design Consulting: $40/hour.
Game Design Consulting: $40/hour.
Leadership Consulting: $50/hour.
Diversity Consulting: $40/hour.
(Queerness, disability/chronic pain, gender identity, mental illness.)
Proofreading: $0.02-$0.03/word.
Copyediting: $0.03-$0.04/word.
Developmental and Technical Editing: $0.04-$0.05/word.
Translated text and short deadlines may have adjustments.
Translated text and short deadlines may have adjustments.
Fiction, Setting, & Narrative Writing: $0.05+/word.
Technical Writing: $20.00+/hour.
Training Writing: $20.00+/hour.
Presentation Development: $20.00+/hour.
Logo & Branding: Contact for details.
Layout: $30/hour.
Layout: $30/hour.
Voicework: Contact for details.
Work requires contract in hand.
Additional Details
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Education
MS from Duquesne University, Leadership (May 2018)With Honors; GPA 4.0.
BS from Duquesne University, Organizational Leadership (May 2016)
With Honors; GPA 3.82
Experience
Over ten years of professional administrative and editorial experience with training integrated into roles, with 7 years in corporate, 1.5 years in federal government, 2 years in academic student consulting and tutoring, and 1.5 years in academic student support. Experience with small business has been spread out over this period, as well.
Skills
Design, editing, writing, training, leading teams, project coordination, remote work, training writing, game design, leadership remote training, developmental editing, proofreading, copyediting, technical writing, presentations, logo design, technical editing, branding, leadership theory.
Microsoft Office Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, SharePoint, etc.), Adobe Acrobat, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere, Adobe Audition, Google Docs, Google Sheets, Google Forms, Google Slides, Discord, Slack, Skype, Google Hangouts, GoToMeeting.
