Domini Gee
Writer|Narrative Designer|Game Developer

PROFESSSIONAL EXPERIENCE

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Writer - Seismic Squirrel

July 2023 - Present                                                        

• Designed, outlined, wrote for home base conversations, and over seven main story missions including The Loose Thread, The Clock Strikes Treason, Memories Don't Dance, and Pockets Full of Stones.

• Collaborate with the narrative, design, and art teams to create, iterate, and maintain themes, characters, plots, and technical requirements.

• Maintain continuity, tone, social dynamics, and world-logic.

• Research historical events, people, and locations to use as touching stones in alternative historical narrative content. Create briefs and summaries that can be shared with the broader team.

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Development Support 4 (Narrative Quality Designer) - Keywords Studios, Embedded at BioWare (Edmonton)

May 2020 - July 2023
 

• Responsible for quality verification of narrative features for Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Tracked and created test plans for development phase gates, identified milestone risks, and collaborated with narrative leadership and other development pillars.

• Participated in reviews of the overall game script, cinematics, combat barks, and ambient scenes. Kept up to date with lore to help maintain continuity.

• Wrote test conversations in the conversation editor to identify functional and workflow issues.

• Acted as senior QV analyst for the Keywords Team. Ran team syncs, meetings, presentations, workshops, training, and mentoring.

• Participated in side-project weeks and created a tree-dating sim, prototypes for unique environmental signage for enemies, and a sidequest concept exploring a pre-existing character.

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Quality Assurance Tester - Odyssey Entertainment

April 2019 - Present

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• QA Tester for Transmogrify

• Built and ran test cases for any new mechanics, regression checks, and level coverage.

• Edited levels in Godot to fix bugs and implement design choices from a player-based perspective.

• Regularly tested 3-5 levels/week and updated documentation for tracking mechanics and providing feedback. Assessed level difficulty, playability, and general design and compiled the findings in a weekly report.

 

QA Tester - BioWare

April 2014 - August 2014

 

• Member of the critical narrative tester team for Dragon Age: Inquistion. Tested game through alpha and beta checks and acted as the primary PS3 tester in our pod.

• Worked with developers to ensure quests worked on a functional and lore level. Ran through character romance quests to ensure continuity between narrative and mission elements.

 

Research Assistant - University of Alberta

September 2012 - March 2014

 

• Researched and analyzed data. Compiled weekly summary reports.

• Organized Skype and email communications between the University of Alberta PLAYPR group and other post-secondary organizations.

• Compiled literature reviews of print and digital resources. Resources included books, online journals, web sites, interviews, Twitter posts, and relevant materials found through usage of databases.

• Constructed the GRAND Assessment Framework and organized co-authored paper, “Assessing Serious Games: The GRAND Assessment Framework” in Digital Studies.

• Wrote, edited and presented papers at five conferences (Replaying Japan, Canadian Game Studies Association, Canadian Society for Digital Humanities, HuCon).

Research Assistant - Moira Day (University of Saskatchewan)

July 2016 - March 2017

 

• Assisted with research on book about Elizabeth Sterling Haynes and early Alberta Drama History.

• Researched requested materials and fact-checked bibliographic information using digital and physical archives. Obtained, maintained, and updated digital research materials while working with archivists and librarians.

• Digitized and transcribed book chapters. Edited formatting to preserve author voice and presentation.

• Organized and tracked activities in weekly reports.

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