Bradley Foster

Game & Narrative Designer

About me

I've been writing since I was 13. My earliest memories of game development are writing character sheets for my Skyrim playthroughs and trying, unsuccessfully, to mod Skyrim and Hearts of Iron IV. Those mods never really worked, but they taught me that what I loved most was building the stories and systems behind a world. All of that eventually led me to a BA in Game Studies with minors in writing and history, which I'll be finishing next spring.

Because of my love for history, I tend to blend real-world history into fiction, and I love making interactive worlds for players to engage with. My primary focus is writing and narrative design, but I also program in Python, C, and GDScript, with Godot as my engine of choice. I make my own pixel art for my projects as well.

Right now, I'm building a fantasy world based on ancient Mesopotamia that asks: what if the rulers of the ancient city-states were living gods? I'm exploring it through a turn-based isometric RPG and a full-length manuscript.

After graduating in spring 2027, I'm looking for roles in narrative and game design. Take a look at my work below.

Highlights

Presto - The Board Game

A card game based on Pixar's short Presto (2008), built with a partner in two to three weeks for UD's Intro to Game Design. The brief was to capture the short's theme and feeling. I co-designed the core mechanic and wrote as well as formatted the rules so that the magician-vs-rabbit rivalry, the slapstick timing comes through in how the game plays.

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VIDEO GAME - CLASS

GAME467: Game Design Studio - Burden (Working Title)

A 10-person, semester-long team project built around empathy. I'm one of three writers on a fairytale-driven game simple enough for a child to play, where the player carries a burden that quietly stands in for something heavier. I'm co-writing the narrative and dialogue for the game as a whole.

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Games Writing Portfolio

A cohesive set of games writing samples set in my fictional world of Valanium, following the character Altair through an opening cinematic, a character sheet, and a barksheet.

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Video Games

Chaos of Valanium (Working Title) - Personal Project/ Dev Logs

An isometric tactics RPG in Godot, set in the city of Magnus (working name) after its god-king are was exposed as mortal and killed in the street. The world draws on ancient Mesopotamia. This is my ongoing personal project, and the devlog follows it from early prototype onward.

Note: This porject is in pre-production while I am in school, so this is a place holder for now.

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GODOT - COURSEWORK

CISC204 Godot Projects

Five Godot projects from UD's Intro to Game Development: three solo, two team. They include a typewriter dialogue system, a basic character creator, interactable objects, and NPC behavior. Together they're the foundation I'm now using for my own tactics RPG.

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Writing

Creative Writing Portfolio

A collection of different polished short stories, chatpers, and excercises that showcase my writing proficiency and style.

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BRANCHING NARRATIVE - TWINE

Branching Narrative

A branching narrative following a basic branching dialogue structure that showcases understanding of branching narrative structure. It follows a player, that encounters a man who was scammed by a shop owner and tries to recruit the player to help them get their money back.

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Board Games

The Backyard Bug Hunt

An educational board game made with a partner for UD's Entomology Club, designed to change how players see the insects in their own backyard. I co-designed the core mechanics, formatted the map, and wrote as well as formatted the rule book.

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