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Hi, I’m David

I am a writer and narrative designer born in Parnaíba, on the coast of Piauí, Brazil, where I moved back after twelve years in Teresina. Some of my writing is signed Kael Angeli.

I started with art: after a piauindie talk in 2018, I drew for educational games at local startups. Then came game design and, finally, narrative, where I stayed.

I believe narrative designers have to understand game design and put fun and interactivity first, because interactivity is what sets games apart from books and comics. And a deal is a deal: if we agree the job is X, the job will be X.

What I do

I write game scripts and dialogue and do narrative design: I think about how the story reaches the player through mechanics, environment and text.

I also write comic scripts, build worlds, factions and characters, and prepare narrative documents the team uses day to day, like world bibles and writing guides. I have experience with card games and work in Portuguese and English.

Experience

Full history on LinkedIn

  • Dfiance · Voidspark Interactive

    2024 to present

    Lead Writer on the strategy card game: world, factions, characters and text.

  • Terra Valente

    Over 20 superhero comic scripts for the Terra Valente universe, in partnership with Andrej Biasic.

  • Asleep · Black Hole Games

    2020 to present

    Co-writer of the horror game that raised over 90,000 reais on Catarse. Dialogue, documents and in-engine text implementation, scripts for the comics set in the same universe (O Coveiro) and short stories. Also game and level design on smaller studio projects.

  • Slately Comics

    2021 to 2023

    Project manager and lead writer for a team of five artists: scripts and narrative structure for five webcomics, including A Normal Place.

  • IGG

    Interactive story scripts (Cloaked Passions).

Education

  • Game Design Technology degree, UNINTER (2023 to 2025)

  • Professional Certificate in Writing for Video Games, edX/UBCx (2022 to 2023)

  • Writing Interactive Stories for Video Games & Other Formats, Udemy (2022)

Let’s talk?

Write to me about game writing, narrative design or comics. I reply in Portuguese and English.

davidstefanomks@gmail.com