Hi, I'm Jack.

I’m an editor, project manager, and narrative designer with 7+ years of games and editorial experience. My strengths are in creative writing, editorial and journalism, and narrative design, while my passions lie in video games, meticulous project management, and playing the role of a versatile support, both in games and in life.Born and raised in the Bay Area, I’m a huge fan of the Warriors, Niners, and Giants; an eager eater of Asian fusion cuisine; and a fun-loving enjoyer of queer everything. I’ve explored a variety of storytelling formats, such as journalism, interactive visual novels, live news broadcasts, localization editing, and, of course, (fan)fiction.

As someone fascinated with words and conversations, I design stories, characters, and worlds based on how I think, speak, and interact. My work often focuses on the good, the bad, and especially the ugly of interpersonal communication.Drawing inspiration from my experiences as a queer Filipino-American, I intend to create painful, funny, and heartfelt games that feel real and relatable but are undoubtedly something only I can make. I aim to build fantastic video game narratives that grab players by the heart, crush them with feels, and subsequently place a bandage over the wound with a perfectly timed joke—just as my favorite games have done to me.

With my experience in journalism and editorial, I aim to bring my wordsmith skills and project management abilities to any publishing company I have the opportunity to work with. I love connecting with people and establishing real relationships, no matter how rough the waters get.Thanks for stopping by!

Games

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.

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

Check out more of my games on my itch.io page!

Editorial

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

Anime Trending (2018-present)
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, 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

Need editing samples? Check them out here!

Samples

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

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Credits

You pressed the fun facts button! :D

😎It’s more important than just a fun fact, but I didn’t know where to put it. My pronouns are he/him. :D
📝 I enjoy taking design notes on games I play. Check some out here or on my Backloggd!
🖥️ I love building PCs. It’s an expensive hobby that requires time, patience, and money... sigh.
📘 I’m an avid reader of fantasy novels, gay romance manga, and communications textbooks (sorry not sorry).
🌧️ Blue and white is my favorite color combo — and why Cloud9 is my favorite esports team.
🎵 I played alto sax for 10 years, love rock music, and adore playing rhythm games.
🎀 Bow down to Mizuki from Hatsune Miku: Colorful Stage. Here’s my tier list. Fight me. :D
👻 Spookybot (or, sigh, Yay Newfriend) is my favorite character from Questionable Content.
✨ I moderate Game Dev Galaxy, an awesome Discord server for gender-/sex-marginalized devs!
🕹️And, of course, here’s an incomplete list of my favorite games of all time:
Transistor, Borderlands 2, Phoenix Wright: Trials and Tribulations, VA-11 Hall-A, Pokémon Black/White, Final Fantasy VII, Fire Emblem Awakening, Okami, the Mass Effect trilogy, XCOM 2, Tales of Berseria, Butterfly Soup, MapleStory