Chris Iredale

MY WORK

- - Wrote and filmed an episode of the critically acclaimed Netflix series The Ranch starring Ashton Kutcher, Sam Elliot and Debra Winger, which led to membership in the Writer’s Guild.
- - While working on the series, I pitched story concepts and jokes using Final Draft. Three of the stories were used in the show and over a hundred of my jokes were filmed.
- - Netflix executives asked our writing team to include more political humor in the series and I created examples of how to do so without sacrificing our character’s likability.
- - The New York Times quoted my joke in their review of the show and used it as a reference for how our show handled political humor. After which, this example became a core template for how to write and handle politics within the series.
The Ranch on Netflix: Wrote an episode of the series. My work was quoted in the New York Times review of the show. Click for more info.
- - Pitched, developed, and delivered two 3000 word adventures for a new roleplaying game with a successful kickstarter campaign set in Elizabethan England.
- - The game is designed for the FATE Roleplaying System. It can also be ammended to work with other systems like Pathfinder.
- - One of the adventures was designed for new players and cut onboarding time by 1600%.
- - The second adventure is set in the theater world of Renaissance England.
Magonomia: Pitched, wrote and delivered two 3000 word adventures for a new roleplaying game, which cut onboarding time for new players by 1600%. Click for more info.
- - Currently serving as the narrative designer for this school-wide project at USC Games. The project is currently in development and will be released at the USC Games Expo in May 2025.
- - For the project, I created three enemy characters and two creatures. My work sped up pre-production time by three weeks.
- - I used Miro, Notion, Final Draft, Unity, Perforce, and GSuite to collaborate with the art, design, UI/UX and production departments.
- - I built a system for creature creation in Google Sheets using game design principles taught at USC that sped up narrative and game design timelines by two weeks.
- - I collaborated on and presented a narrative deck that detailed the main narrative story, characters, creatures, and world building for the art and game design teams.
- - Currently, I am creating bark sheets and writing character and creature dialogue for the project.
USC Card Game: Cats Project: A USC Games school-wide project in which I served as the narrative designer. Click for more info.
- - A solo developed video game project, Quest Friends Forever is a 2D Wizard Farming RPG with crafting, combat, dialogue, and quests.
- - Players re-wild a mountainside that has been stripped of it's magic by previous adventurers.
- - Players can grow crops, raise animals, make friends in the village, and explore the world to find the source of the magic.
- - I developed the game in Game Maker Studio with GML for the codebase. I drew the artwork and animated it in Asesprite. I also composed and recorded the music in Abelton Live.
Quest Friends Forever: A solo-developed project which I coded, drew artwork, animated sprites, composited VFX, composed music, and recorded an original soundtrack. Click for more info.
- - Once More Into the Breach is a time-trial RPG. Players take on the role of The Champion, an immortal being sent to rid a world of an occupying force of magical cultists.
- - I built this vertical slice over the course of three weeks. It's core concept was designed so that I can continue further development in stages.
- - The game uses the Niagra Particle System for spell effects and damage indicators.
- - The game was developed in Unreal Engine using Blueprints and C++.
Once More Unto the Breach: A solo-developed project in Unreal Engine that uses Blueprints, C++ and the Niagra Particle System. Click for more info.
- - In Mother Ducker, players take on the role of a mother duck who has to protect her ducklings from man-made hazards, like shampoo and soap.
- - I created all of the models in Maya, animated them in Maya, and then imported them into Unity. I also used Unity's AI pathfinding system to create complex AI for the ducklings to follow the Mother Duck.
- - I built a state machine for the baby ducks to attach and detatch from the mother duck.
- - My intent with this project was to create a game that was fun and engaging, but also had a message about the difficulties of parenting and keeping children safe in world with an ever-changing environment.
Mother Ducker: A solo-developed project in Unity, which uses complex AI pathfinding. Click for more info.
- - Developed as a narrative design project at USC Games, BFF is a 2D platformer with ChatGPT API Integration.
- - Players traverse across a 2D platforming world, collecting items that they can use to train the AI model. In doing so, they uncover that the main character lost their friend in a car accident and they are recreating them using the AI model.
- - The game was developed in Unity using the Corgi Engine and uses ChatGPT API for AI dialogue discussions.
- - The AI in the game was trained using a fifteen page script and prompted for each interaction with the players.
- - I served as the lead designer/producer for this project.
BFF: A narrative design project in which players train an AI model in real life while training an AI model in the game. Click for more info.

MY WORK

Games that make you go "Whoa! Wait... what?"