Meghan E. Straus

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My name is Meghan Straus, and I'm a Narrative and Content Designer with 6+ years of experience in the gaming industry. I've worked on everything from AAA games alongside industry veterans to school projects with talented peers.If you want more detailed information about my exact responsibilities on various projects, please check out my resume by clicking the button above.

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Personal Work

Writing samples and character design concepts can be found here. Be sure to check back often, because this section will update frequently!

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Kalyra - Fantasy Tabletop RPG/Strategy

Kalyra is a tabletop game where you take on the role of adventurers exploring a harsh and monster-filled world in a quest for treasure and glory. It was created as a capstone project for my final year at Hampshire College and it served as a culmination of my studies and my Game & Character Design major. As a solo project, I was in charge of everything from the initial design documentation to the art and multiple prototypes of the game itself.- Design Documentation
- Playtesting
- Concept Art
- Prototyping
- Card Game Design
- Tabletop Game DesignGoogle Drive

Interloper - Sci-Fi Horror/Strategy

Interloper is an asymmetrical PvP board game created to evoke the suspense and action of Sci-Fi movies like Alien and The Thing, as well as TV series like Firefly. Players are members of a spaceship crew attempting to survive the attacks of a "Cosmic Interloper" controlled by another player. Every game is different thanks to the "Alien Traits" deck, which creates a different monster for players to contend against every time they play. I worked alongside three other designers to create design documentation and prototypes for the game over a single semester while running playtests with various groups of students at Hampshire College.- Design Documentation
- Playtesting
- Prototyping
- Tabletop Game DesignGoogle Drive

Here you'll find samples of writing and world building written for my own personal projects and pastimes.(Narrative & Content Design)

I also create campaign environments for my Dungeons & Dragons games that I host online. They are made using Photoshop before being uploaded to FoundryVTT (Virtual Tabletop) for players to interact with during campaign sessions.(Narrative & Content Design. UI Design. Photoshop. Map Design & Creation)

All artwork used in personal projects remains credited to its original creator and has not been used for monetary gain, etc.

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• Character Building

• Bloodveil: Inheritance

• Beasts of Bardum

Ara: History Untold - 4x Grand Strategy

In Ara: History Untold players shape their very own civilization, fostering a nation through its infancy in ancient times to the great technological age of the future. As a Game Designer for the project, I focused on narrative design and content creation while also providing design documentation for a few key systems. In addition to writing nearly 300+ quests for the game I also wrote a large part of its "Encarta", a encyclopedia for players that provides both historic information and gameplay information.- Quest Design & Implementation
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- Narrative Design
- Content CreationWatch Trailer - Steam

Word Snack HD - Word-Forming Puzzle

Word Snack HD features a collection of colorful characters all looking for a bite to eat...But their favorite food is words! Created by a team of 34 students and faculty at Hampshire College, Word Snack was the product of 4 months of hard work led by Executive Producer Ira Fay. I was responsible for designing the general systems of the game alongside two other game designers, as well as compiling and editing the game's repository of valid words. I also acted as a liason between the artists, the design team, and their respective producers to ensure weekly deadlines were being consistently met.- Design Documentation
- Word Repository Editing
- Multi-Disciplinary CommunicationWatch Trailer - Website