Portfolio

Game Design

Professional background and selected works

Marlena has been in the game industry for four years. At Schell Games, Marlena's game design work has largely focused on virtual reality, augmented reality, location-based entertainment, and other emerging technologies. Marlena has been project and design director on small to mid-sized projects. Marlena's day-to-day work includes level design, systems design, UX. Marlena's favorite types of games to work on are spooky, thoughtful, fast-paced.

In addition to their work at Schell, Marlena works on indie games. Most recently, they have been working on Tavernlight, a spooky woods game, with their partner, Patrick Jalbert.

Marlena has spoken at conferences including GDC and East Coast Games Conference.

Unreleased LBE Title

· Ongoing project at Schell Games
· Additional details under NDA
· Systems lead + Level Lead
· 2018 - Present (1.5 years)

Tavernlight

· Spooky tavern storytelling game set in the woods
· Ongoing indie project
· Game designer + environment artist
· 2017 - Present (2.5+ years)

HistoryMaker VR

· Proof of concept VR app for history classes
· Internal IP at Schell Games
· Project + design director
· 2018 (2 months)

Protect the Meeper

· Absurd + frantic VR game
· Built during Schell Games Jam Week
· Project + Design Director
· 2017 (5 days)

Mechanisms

· Mobile game for learning organic chemistry
· Built for Alchemie
· Project + design director
· 2015 (6 months)

LEGO BrickHeadz VR

· VR puzzle, storytelling, and sandbox game
· Built at Schell Games for the LEGO company
· Game + systems designer
· 2016 (9 months)

Vitality

· Meditative, sci-fi, wire-riding game
· Built during Global Game Jam
· Game designer, environment artist
· 2017 (48 hours)

WaterBears VR

· VR puzzle game for the Vive
· Schell Games internal IP
· Game designer
· 2015 (3 months)