Game Design & Art Collaboration, or GDA, is a game design club at University of California, Santa Cruz. The club is divided into departments based on what's needed in a typical game studio (arts, programming, music, etc.), but often comes together for workshops that teaches valuable technical skills such as how to connect to the GDA Github or how to navigate Unity (the game engine we commonly use for mock studio game development).

Each academic year, there will be students pitching games and all the club members will vote on what game they are interested in the most in fall quarter to work on for both winter and spring quarter. We will develop the chosen game in a mock studio format throughout roughly 20 weeks time and present the final game in an open studio.

As a member of the Arts department of GDA, I have taken on the roles of concept artist, sprite artist, animator, and title artist.

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Created in 2025, Well Witches is a co-op bullethell roguelike game featuring two playable witches characters, Aloe and Vervain, out in "The Wildwood" searching for a cure for their sick companion, Hex the cat. Two players will be cooperating with each other, one controlling Aloe to forage for ingredients, the other controlling Vervain to fight off monsters with destructive spells.

Take roles include: Concept artist, Sprite animator, Cover art artist.

Character Concept

Sprite Animation

Cover Art

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Created in 2024, Malisense is about the playable main character, the Disgraced, surviving his way through the deep dungeons to fight the Malignance to save their home. Throughout the game, the player will be collecting artifacts to protect themselves and notes guiding the story plot.

Taken roles include: the Disgraced concept designer, in-game animation concept artist, background artist, title screen artist, and trailer animator.

'The Disgraced' Character Design

Title Screen

Trailer Animation

Misc Tasks