🤷‍♀️ Rony (sounds like “irony”) Kahana
đź’Ľ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rony-kahana/
✏️ Writing samples

Game writer, producer, branching, barks, flavor text, etc. etc.
Skills
  • Linear and branching dialogue
  • Environmental barks
  • Mission descriptions
  • Voice-over sessions support
  • LiveOps and marketing content 
  • Style and IP matching
  • Development management
  • Unreal Engine
  • JavaScript


Employment Firaxis Games 2020 - PresentSid Meier's Civilization VII
Marvel’s Midnight Suns

Big Huge Games 2018 - 2020Arcane Showdown
DomiNations

Education     ArenaNet Narrative Mentorship
2023

Carnegie Mellon University
Master of Entertainment Technology
2016




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EXPERIENCE



Marvel's Midnight Suns Firaxis
Tactical role-playing

Dialougue, branching, barks,
descriptions Worked as part of a writing team on a Marvel IP, matching Marvel’s heroes unique voices. Wrote VOed branching dialogue, mission descriptions, and in-game social media posts.

  • Adapted briefs to full-blown scripts
  • Matched Voice, style, and tone
  • Branching dialogues
  • Writing for VO recording
  • In-engine implementation


Sid Meier's Civilization VII Firaxis
4X turn-based strategy

Storylets Participated in the drafting stage of systems-based Storylets. 

  • Crafting text, choices, and rewards to work cohesively with existing game systems


Arcane Showdown Big Huge Games
F2P real-time strategy

Fantasy flavor text, Message of the day Wrote flavor text and player facing messaging matching the tone. Designed, wrote, created and scheduled the social media postings. 

  • Flavor text for fantasy settings
  • Player-facing messaging




    Unpublished Game Big Huge Games
    F2P match-three

    Branching dialougue     Designed and wrote the branching narrative for an unpublished game , iterating weekly in a fast-paced prototyping environment.

    • Branching narrative
    • Fast-paced iteration cycles
    • In-engine implementation in Unity using XML




    DomiNations Big Huge Games
    F2P real-time strategy

    Historical flavor text     Flavor text for historical units and artifacts.

    • In-depth research using sources in multiple languages
    • Adhering to the strict deadlines of F2P development




    Additional Projects VR, interactive film, documentary, educational


    Thin Line
    David555David


    • Thin Line, narrative design and writing for an immersive experience (VR) for social impact


    • By the Campfire, writing for an educational PC game to showcase Active Listening


    • Mind Field, writing for an interactive web-based film for Carnegie Mellon’s orientation


    • David555David, documentary directing, A recently divorced quadriplegic is trying his luck on online dating sites. A short documentary from his daughter's (mine) perspective (editing: Gal Shani Mager)



    MISC


    Character Driven Scenes, UCLA
    Battlestar Galactica Sequence Spec Script




    ArenaNet Narrative Mentorship

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