christine mi
narrative designer + game designer

I’m a Brooklyn-based game designer and artist. I’m interested in fresh narrative systems and telling deep, expressive stories.

I also write and illustrate comics for publications like Vox, the New Yorker, and Washington Post.

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comics portfolio

unity c# systems design figma
production ux/ui game writing
ink yarnspinner twine jira

SELECTED PROJECTS

vanitas

narrative designer writer artist designer
A jazzy mystery game where you play an evolving dice game with a strange woman on a train.

Part folk-game, part escape-room. Made with Unity + YarnSpinner.

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awards

Blue Ocean Games:
Rising Tide Winner 2025

the mountain

solo developer
A tiny poem game about emptiness, loss, and remembering what it means to be alive. Made with Bitsy.

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awards

IFDB Outstanding Bitsy Game of 2023

Debug Indie Game Awards Nominee 2024

six of cups

solo developer
A series of six short text-based vignettes taking place at various points in a troubled man’s life. Made with Unity + Ink.

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the sea god

solo developer
A poem game about leviathans, death, blessings, and the vast stygian sea. Made with Bitsy.

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awards

IFDB Outstanding Bitsy Game of 2024

monarch

solo developer
A short game about monarch butterfly migration, resilience, and how humans have impacted our environment. Made with GameMaker.

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exhibitions

2025 Game Developers Conference [GDC]

worm girlfriend dating simulator

solo developer
“One morning, when you woke from troubled dreams, you found yourself transformed into a really cute worm.”

A silly hybrid of physics game and dating sim. Made with Unity + LUA + YarnSpinner.

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the interplanetary museum

solo developer
A speculative walking sim about a future where all that remains of humanity can only be experienced in a museum. Made with Unity.

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erebus

solo developer
A survival game based on the historical H.M.S. Erebus, one of the two ships seeking the Northwest Passage from the doomed 1845 Franklin Expedition. Made with Unity.

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don’t you move

solo developer
A sapphic rhythm game experienced in one continuous shot.

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hotline

solo developer
Hotline is an interactive fiction game about phone sex, heartbreak, and loneliness. Made with Inform7.

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SEE MY ITCH.IO PAGE FOR MORE GAMES