Jack Carrillo Concordia

Good Lord! Everyone at the Reunion For My Religious All-Girls School Is a Trans Man… And They’re Hot?! (2024)
oh nooo what ever shall you do?
A visual novel about a cis(?) girl going to her high school reunion and falling in love!Skills: project management, character development, narrative design, line editing, Dialogic implementation (Godot)Made for Otome Jam 2024 and Trans Representation Jam 24.
Featured in Queer Games Festival 2024.

HEART BREAK IMPACT (2023)
BREAK THROUGH WITH A MIGHTY FIST!A bizarre beat-em-up action game about a little flame fren who prefers to punch through their problems.Skills: project management, game design, narrative design, writing, dialogue, silent protagonist restraint, script implementation (Godot)Made for Anti-Romance Jam 2023.

Splash! Tournament of Love (2020)
A story of rivalry, romance, and paint dodgeball!A visual novel illustrating the passionate rivalry between collegiate athletes—and a little something else blossoming too.Skills: character development, narrative design, writing, dialogue, script implementation (Godot)Made for Yaoi Game Jam 2020. Included in Gender Constellation Bundle.

Chapters: Interactive Stories (2020-2021)
Synopsis from “My Backup Boyfriend”:
Dominic Sorenson is charming, ruggedly handsome, and totally out of your league. But when you blurt out that he's your new boyfriend to one-up the woman who stole your ex, you end up getting a lot more of Dominic than you bargained for! He's all too happy to play the part of boyfriend, but will he take this fake relationship further?As a Narrative Designer for the live-service mobile game Chapters: Interactive Stories, I adapted traditionally published romance stories and redesigned them into interactive visual novels.Skills: character, background, and art design, writing, dialogue, script implementation and QA (Unity)Sample Works: The Ice King, My Backup Boyfriend, The Playboy's Proposal, Co-Ed, Coral and Bone, The Resurrected Prince

Tails from the Galaxy: Stowaway (2019)
“I made crates FLOAT!”2D stealth platformer about an infamous bandit who finds herself hitching a ride on the spaceship of wanted criminals.Skills: programming (Unity), level design, pixel art (Pixilart), narrative design, indirect/implied storytelling, worldbuilding

Confession (2019)
Oh no, you’re doing the overthinking thing again.A short Twine game about having social anxiety, word vomiting, and also confessing (maybe) over text.Skills: character development, narrative design, writing, branching dialogue, script implementation (Twine)

I can’t find my glasses. (2019)
“I’ve checked the nightstand, the kitchen, the bathroom, the bag of cat food, the half-finished milk tea, the hallway of a thousand doors, outer space, and the weed garden, but I still can’t find them anywhere!”A short Bitsy game about trying to find your glasses inspired by my inability to ever find mine.Skills: game design, writing, dialogue, pixel art, Bitsy

VIZ Media (2021-present)
Editor and Project ManagerSkills: project management, localization editing, proofreading and QA, cross-department communication and collaborationSample Works: Blue Box; Gokurakugai; Love’s in Sight!; Maid to Skate; My Hero Academia: School Briefs; My Hero Academia: Team-Up Missions; Pink Candy Kiss; Rainbows After Storms; RuriDragon

Freelance Editing (2020-present)
Developmental EditorSkills: developmental editing (which includes highlighting structural issues, adjustments to plot/character developments, and other high-level narrative design concerns)Sample Works: A Cinderella Crime Story; two unpublished novels
Art by rainyfurz

Anime Trending (2018-present)
Consulting Editor, formerly Lead EditorSkills: mentoring of junior writers and editors, copyediting and proofreading, style guide and SOP documentation, intercultural communicationSample Works: Let’s Make a Mug Too: Second Kiln review; BanG Dream! Episode of Roselia I: Promise review; Best of Fantasy Anime podcast episode

Fandom (2018-2019)
Editorial InternSkills: op-ed articles and listicles, article review and feedback, freelancer hiring and management, copyediting and proofreadingSample Works: How Romance Sims Helped Me Realize I’m a Trans Guy; 5 Indie Games With Amazing Female Leads; 6 ‘Overwatch’ Characters Who Need More Story Development

The California Aggie (2018-2019)
Journalist / Copy EditorSkills: technical writing, conducting in-person and video interviews, in-the-field research, distilling scientific articles, copyediting and proofreadingSample Works: Synestia: more than a “hot space donut”; Improv-ing your communication skills; Creating the perfect peck of peppers

Ji-hye / Seven (character bio & barks)
“When you have nothing to lose, you’ll accept every fistfight life throws your way.”Mix of drama and comedy. For a single-player sci-fan RPG. 1.3k words.
A character biography, captain’s report, playstyle notes, and barks for Seven (Ji-hye), the primary brawler/off-tank protagonist in the player's party. Check out my other Tails from the Galaxy samples for a better sense of this sci-fan world.
Art by mendoutaya

FUN TONIGHT (script)
“Admit it. Your life would be boring if I weren't around to spice things up.”Mix of drama and comedy. For a single-player sci-fan RPG. 4 pages.
In Tails from the Galaxy, a space mercenary crash-lands on an unfamiliar planet surrounded by unfamiliar foes. In FUN TONIGHT, the player experiences Ji-hye’s unlikely team-up with an incompetent space captain and her most beloathed rival to find a way off that damn rock.
Art by mendoutaya

The Howlin' Truth / That Little Something-Something (mission text & objectives)
You might have hallucinated this whole thing, really.Comedy. For a multiplayer sci-fi looter shooter. 2 mission outlines.
A mock-up of missions, loglines, and objectives that would appear in a action-adventure and/or open-world RPG, complete with optional objectives and reward details.
Art by shea-parfait

Spell (prose)
“It takes all of a single second for grey eyes to meet amber ones across the bar, and another for their heads to turn away.”Romance. Dark, mysterious, sultry first meeting. 618 words.
Two women meet at a bar. Prompt comes from an old Inktober list. This short story features Erika (Vex), one of my oldest and most beloved characters, and Amélie, her major love interest across different game ideas and timelines.
Art by dd3odraws