NICHOLAS ORTIZ

Game Designer
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SUMMARY PROJECTS
I'm a Game Designer leveraging my background and experience in translation, history,
writing, and programming to craft intriguing stories and games that appeal to
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audiences from different cultures and backgrounds.
Wrote the story and directed the game design for a
puzzle game that was submitted as part of GBJam
EXPERIENCE 11. This game ranked in the top 29 out of 402
entries submitted.
Game Designer, Freelance 2023 - Present
• Successfully wrote the story, directed the game design, and \ Furmistad
submitted 4 games to virtual competitions, leveraging writing, https://profedejocs.itch.io/furmistad
level design, and programming expertise. Organized the team, wrote the story, and
• Lead teams across various specialties such as art, directed the game design for a horror game that
development, and design to meet creative and organizational was submitted as part of the Scream Jam 2023.
deadlines.

Writer & Translator, Freelance 2021 - Present \ Fosc Jo

https://yellow-prince-games.itch.io/fosc-jo
Select clients include Latin American Perspectives, the Red Cross, Recruited and organized the team,
the World Health Organization, and the Global Health Network wrote the story, directed the game design, and
• Translate scholarly articles from Brazilian Portuguese into was one of the Ren'py programmers for a visual
English, averaging about 8,000 words, for the Latin American novel that was submitted as part of the
Perspectives quarterly journal. Topics include government Spooktober Jam 2023.
policies, exchanges during the Cold War, etc.
• Localize documents, marketing materials, and game dialogue
from Brazilian Portuguese into English, English into French, and
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English into Spanish. Established the narrative
format for the game, wrote the story, collaborated
Research Assistant, UNC Charlotte 2015 - 2016
cross-functionally to come up with the main
• Conducted cultural research aimed at updating the university's puzzle, and selected music that correlated with the
branding and marketing material, significantly impacting the time period of the game (Ancient Rome).
redesign of the website and the creation of print collateral to
promote the Latin American Studies program.
TRAINING
EDUCATION Game Design Memsource
Master's in Translation and Interpreting
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Subtitling Tools CAT Tools
2021
Unreal Engine 5 Godot 4 SDL Trados
Master's in Latin American Studies
University of North Carolina at Charlotte Unity 2D Termweb Subtitle Workshop
2016

Bachelor's in History and Political Science LANGUAGES

University of North Carolina at Wilmington English
2014 Native

Spanish
PROGRAMS Native

\ Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot,

Ren'py
T Python, C#, GD Script, Github
Portuguese
Proficient

Q Memsource, Phrase
w Microsoft Office Suite
French
Proficient

Dutch
Advanced

Catalan
Advanced