Role: Lead Narrative Designer

Studio: PRELOADED

Release Date: May 2024

‘LEGO Smoothie Odyssey’ takes players to cosmic frontiers to create the tastiest – and strangest – smoothies in space. Whether playing solo or with friends, players must blast off to an exotic planet in search of weird and wonderful fruit like Shock Berries and Butter Berries, then set up a galactic smoothie bar to blend dazzling concoctions and wow local Aliens.

Explorers can venture to seven new zones in search of different berries, with each zone housing unique environments – from the depths of the ancient Crystal Caves to the bubbling geysers of Hot Springs.

As well as blending their way to acclaim, smoothie makers can dive into a host of different activities across the planet with their new Alien friends, including gravity-defying parkour across The Void, exhilarating rail races from the heights of Star Peak Mountain, and paddling in the tranquil waters of Luna Lagoon.

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Role: Writer/Narrative Designer

Studio: PlayStation London Studio

Release Date (previously scheduled): 2025

An unreleased title that was being developed by PlayStation's London Studio prior to its shutting down. I was one of the 6 writers brought in to work with the incredible team at the London Studio to develop the initial worldbuilding, characters, lore and some logic for parts of the game system.

As part of the writers room, I developed several of the characters, narrative arcs, environmental art concepts and mood boards (related to the lore/characters), and dialogue, as well as concepts for possible narrative scenes to illustrate character arcs.

Role (at various stages): Narrative/Experience Designer, Strategist

Studio: PRELOADED

Release Date: 2023/2024

GoTime app

Contracted by London based XR Game Design studio - PRELOADED - to design a playful storybook aimed at helping children develop healthy toilet habits for life!

GOAL

To help people adopt healthier toileting habits and assist parents through the difficult stage of potty-training their kids, British hygiene brand Andrex launched a new educational platform called GoTime. Featuring advice, tools, and personalised toilet training plans, parents and caregivers will find everything they need to educate their children in a fun and engaging way.

As part of this platform, Andrex asked PRELOADED to design and build a digital product, and learning framework to provide children and caregivers with the supporting material and tools to help children to practise the health habits that will last a lifetime – The GoTime app was born! An app featuring multiple playbooks, each of which tackled a different aspect of the child’s journey to toilet independence.

A PLAYBOOK FOR EVERY STAGE

The GoTime app offers children a series of playable stories or playbooks that tackle different toilet training challenges, scaffolded by the parent who is asked to take the child through the experience a few times, before letting them play independently. The playbooks tackle various parts of the toilet training journey, from learning the sequence to understanding the correct way to perform certain skills like wiping and flushing. The playbooks also help children gain confidence through familiarity with different toilet mechanics outside the home.

To cement the child’s knowledge in their mind and further enhance their confidence in their knowledge, the playbooks position the child as the GoTime characters’ teacher, helping them learn all the skills that the child is learning in real life, and mirroring the child’s experience through the characters’ challenges and successes in the playbooks.

Central to the playbook concept is a world of friendly and relatable characters – Bunny, Mouse, and Bear – each of whom helps reinforce the learning at a different stage of a child’s development.

SUPPORTING FAMILIES AT EACH STAGE

At each stage of Design and Development, PRELOADED, in partnership with Fundamentally Children, tested and refined the proposition with children and parents to ensure the current, and future value of the ongoing product offer.

The GoTime app is conceived as an ongoing product, which can adapt to meet the different needs of care-givers and children on their toilet training journey. By creating focused ‘playbooks’ that children WANT to play, we could ensure the best opportunity for learning, in line with the celebrations and regressions unique to every child.

GoTime is available to download now on iOS and Android devices.

Role: Narrative and Experience Design Lead

Images and parts of text courtesy of PRELOADED