A pirate themed PvE deck builder where players build their pirate crew around powerful captains in orders to obtain glory, treasure, and even emotional breakthroughs.

What I Learned: 

• Strengthened leadership and creative direction skills by overseeing the game’s overall design trajectory, learning how to align tone, narrative, and mechanics into a cohesive player experience.

• Gained experience with thematic systems design by developing an insanity-based resource mechanic inspired by nautical literature (e.g. Moby Dick), exploring how abstract themes can drive pacing, escalation, and counterplay.

• Refined systemic thinking through the creation of a drafting-based deckbuilding system, enabling players to fuse archetypes and encouraging emergent strategies through meaningful choice.

• Expanded design toolkit by designing and balancing over 100 player cards, focusing on synergy, variety, and mechanical clarity to support multiple distinct playstyles.

• Learned how to design AI-countered gameplay by collaborating closely with the AI programmer to create enemy abilities that challenged players while reinforcing fair, learnable interactions.

• Gained hands-on experience with VO pipelines by facilitating the recording and implementation of 50+ card voice lines, understanding how audio feedback reinforces mechanical and narrative clarity.