Millie-Jo is a UK-based creative with 8+ years of professional writing experience and media production knowledge, having contributed to multiple projects across various mediums including Games, Theatre, TV, Radio, and more.She is currently Project Coordinator at Games Leadership® and Narrative Designer at Lunaboot Studios, working on their debut title set for a 2026 release. Her experience as a writer includes working with Specsavers, Oldham Coliseum Theatre, and providing episode pitches for a new series pitched to CBBC TV. In 2024, she received the IG50 Award in the Design & Narrative category.

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Project Graviton (in development)

LUNABOOT STUDIOS
Roles: Narrative Designer & additional Operations support
Team size: 10
Development: part-time since November 2024Set in a strange and decaying world, 'Project Graviton' blends unique, physics-oriented mechanics with atmospheric storytelling. Drawing inspiration from the techno-utopian dreams and abstract 3D art of the 1990s and early 2000s, Graviton takes players on a subversive journey through space and time.

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Tick-Tock Trolley Shop (December 2024)

Roles: Writer, Dialogue Editor & Project Manager
Team size: 5
Development: 1 week
Play time: 3 minutesCreated in under a week (and finishing on Christmas Eve!) this game was made for the Jame Gam Christmas 2024 jam, featuring the required themes of 'Momentum' and 'Christmas', and the necessary special object 'Candy Cane'.
Zoom your way around this crowded supermarket of last-minute shoppers to grab everything you need for Christmas dinner! Gain points for every successful item retrieval and grab additional time for every shopper you bash out of your way using your trolley. Gain as many points as possible before time runs out.

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Little Captain, First Mate (October 2024)

Roles: Narrative Designer, Project Manager & Game Designer
Team size: 5 (+2 additional short-term members)
Development: 6 months
Play time: 15 minutesThis game was created for the Safe In Our World Mental Health Game Dev Champions 2024 jam. It follows the close bond of two siblings and the special memories they shared together, exploring the complexities of grief and how it can feel to revisit happy times through this lens. As my first longer game jam project, there were unique opportunities and challenges presented in pursuing a story with heavier themes and ensuring that we dealt with them sensitively. An ambitious game that the team are extremely proud of.

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All Stacked Up (August 2024)

Roles: Game Designer & Project Manager
Team size: 8
Development: 96 hours
Play time: 5 minutesThis game was created for GMTK Jam 2024, incorporating the jam theme of 'Built to Scale'. All Stacked Up is a cosy puzzle platformer that follows a set of Russian Dolls from the smallest size upward, as they navigate cluttered shelves. Each Doll possesses unique abilities and limitations, relative to their size and the surrounding environment, which players must utilise to manipulate different their environment and reunite with the biggest Russian Doll!

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Gnome vs Gnome (August 2024)

Roles: Producer & Lead Game Designer
Team size: 8
Development: 1 week
Play time: 5 minutesThis game was created for Snappy Gurus Game Off 2024, based on the jam theme of 'The Grass is Greener on the Other Side'. Gnome vs Gnome explores a comedic rivalry between two garden gnomes as they each attempt to see their territory take the prize for 'The Best Village Garden of the Year'! This was my first time taking full lead on a project: after thinking up the idea for the game concept, I approached various people in my network in order to assemble a multidisciplinary team and make it happen! Acting as both Producer and Lead Game Designer taught me much about supporting a larger team through managing and adapting individual workflows, balanced with my own contribution the game's design including the mechanics, gameplay loops, objectives, difficulty, narrative direction and overall progression.

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Kitty's Revenge (July 2024)

Roles: Narrative, Game Design & Project Management
Team size: 4 (+1 feline voice actor)
Development: 1 week
Play time: 5-10 minutesHuman offends Kitty. Kitty gets revenge! A cosy, narrative mini puzzle game created for Black Cat Jam and incorporating the theme of 'chaos'. This is the first game for which Millie was the sole game designer: comments left during the rating period were extremely positive, offering praise for the concept and how entertaining it was to play. Overall, the game placed #13 out of 135 entries for Black Cat Jam.

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Graviton (July 2024)

Roles: Producer & Narrative Designer
Team size: 9
Development: 1 week
Play time: 10-15 minutesA 3D puzzle platformer game with the ability to manipulate time and gravity, created for Thinky Puzzle Jam 4 and incorporating the theme of 'Extreme Sports'. For Millie's role as Narrative Designer, she constructed an elaborate world and backstory to explain the intended mechanics and meet the theme, as well as determining the overall art direction with the creation of a mood board for reference during development. Millie then oversaw production of the project, liaising between the creative and technical teams to create the demo currently published.

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Shell Shuffle (May 2024)

Roles: Writer, Narrative Designer & Producer
Team size: 5
Development: 72 hours
Play time: 10 minutesA cosy puzzle game created for Mini Jam 159: Ocean by a team of IG50 2024 award winners. Incorporating the limitation 'as small as possible', this game includes a twist on traditional merge game mechanics by having items occupy varying amounts of grid space. As the sole writer and narrative designer on the team, Millie wrote all dialogue and tutorial text, and provided narrative direction by liaising with other members of the team to ensure all aspects of the game worked together cohesively.