We collaborated with Opera to promote Opera and Arcane's art contest!

Quests entered users' quest logs encouraging them to:

• Post the art they entered into the contest

• Post tips for their fellow artists

• Show what tools they'll use to enter

• Like 20 posts which use the tags from the previous quests.

For this event, I was responsible for:

• Ideating and creating the quests for the event with an eye towards maximizing user engagement.

• Creating assets to be used in the Arcane site takeover

• Drafting and scheduling all posts about the event on both Game Jolt and on social media

• Drafting messages to Game Jolt users promoting the event.

Game Jolt's annual holiday event returned in 2024! Starting on December 2, 2024, holiday-themed quests entered users' quest logs.

As an example, the "Ponder the Joltiday Orb" quest expanded on the lore built in other Joltidays quests and tasked users with collecting the pieces of the shattered orb. In order to do so, they had to channel positive energy (i.e. do positive engagements on the site) and then place a digital sticker of each orb.

We also used the event to highlight work by Creators across Game Jolt:

• We featured Creators' holiday and winter-inspired items in the Game Jolt Shop.

• We ran an "Advent Calendar" from December 2 to January 1. Each day for 30 days, users received a quest in their quest log which highlights and rewards them for following a specific Creator.

I was responsible for:

• Conceptualizing the event

• Building quests for the event including the Advent Calendar.

• Creating promos for the event

• Co-ordinating with our in-house artist to create images for quests including the Joltiday orb, shards of the Joltiday orb, and more.

• Adding Winter Wonderland items to the Game Jolt shop

• Picking which Creators would be featured in the Advent Calendar. 

We once again gave users the ability to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community by completing gamified challenges to unlock Pride collectibles.

In 2024, we made the celebration last all month long because a new Pride quest dropped every Monday in June.

We also once again added a new set of premium Pride collectibles to the Game Jolt Shop. (All proceeds from the sale of these collectibles were donated to The Trevor Project at the end of the month.) 

We also celebrated LGBTQ+ characters from across gaming history in a series of posts that went up every weekday in June.

In producing this event I:

• Collaborated with the art team to create the new premium collectibles.

• Wrote daily post highlighting a LGBTQ+ video game character. (I heavily consulted GLAAD's lists.)

• Created all social assets.

• Created all quests (which are gamified, time-limited challenges.) 

  • Examples include asking users to post why they love their favorite LGBTQ+ video game character and placing digital stickers on posts that use Pride backgrounds.

You can see the kickoff post here. You can see one of the character posts here.

Joltidays 2023 (Dec. 2023)

Game Jolt's annual holiday event returned in 2023! Starting on December 1 2023, holiday-themed quests entered users' quest logs.

Completing one of the quests entered our users into 50,000 Joltbux giveaway!

We also used the event to highlight work by Creators across Game Jolt:

• We featured Creators' holiday and winter-inspired items in the Game Jolt Shop.

• We ran an "Advent Calendar" from December 2 to January 1. Each day for 30 days, users received a quest in their quest log which highlights and rewards them for following a specific Creator.

I was responsible for:

• Conceptualizing the event

• Building quests for the event including the Advent Calendar.

• Creating promos for the event

• Co-ordinating with our in-house artist to create images for quests including the Joltiday orb, shards of the Joltiday orb, and more.

• Adding Winter Wonderland items to the Game Jolt shop

• Picking which Creators would be featured in the Advent Calendar. 

You can see the post kicking off the event here.

Joltober is Game Jolt's month-long art challenge! 

Each day in October, users got a new Halloween-related prompt and a quest to post art based on that prompt. In 2023, we offered 4,000 Joltbux to the artists behind our favorite pieces.

You can see the post with our winners here.

For this event I was responsible for:

• Writing all 31 prompts.

• Writing and scheduling all 31 posts.

• Picking the winning posts.

• Creating assets for all 31 posts and for announcing the winners.

Game Jolt partnered with Steel Wool Studios to promote the release of their game Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach - Ruin.

I created multiple FNaF inspired quests which users could complete to enter to win merch (including shirts provided by Steel Wool.)

One of the quests was Investigate the Ruined Pizzaplex which is a sequel to quest "Help Repair Animatronic Kikkerstein" from our earlier quest. I

In the quest, Animatronic Kikkerstein tasks users with exploring a ruined pizzaplex to find out what lies within. They had to place a cellphone sticker on a post featuring multiple mascots to "take a picture" and get proof of the mascots that lie within.

For this event, I was responsible for:

• Coordinating with the art team to make necesssary art assets

• Shipping the prizes that came from Game Jolt's supplies and coordinating with Steel Wool on shipping their prizes.

• Making social promo assets

• Writing and scheduling all posts on Game Jolt and external socials to get users hyped about the event.

You can see the announcement here.

Game Jolt partnered with Steel Wool Studios and Youtooz to celebrate the 9th anniversary of the release of the original Five Nights at Freddy's.

Three celebrating the series appeared in user's quest log. Completing the quests entered users to win FNaF Youtooz figures and physical copies of Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach

For this event, I was responsible for:

• Deciding on the retro pizza box-inspired aesthetic

• Ideating and building quests.

• Making social promo assets

• Coordinating with Steel Wool Studios and Youtooz on getting prizes to winners.

• Writing and scheduling all posts on Game Jolt and external socials to get users hyped about the event.

You can see the announcement post here.

A multi-week event where mascots from all of gaming history faced off in a series of one on one match ups. Users voted for their favorite until the ultimate winner was crowned.

It was great for engagement because many of the mascots involved have DEVOTED fanbases. In addition to voting, some also participated by making posts encouraging people to root for their mascot of choice, fan art of the people who remained in the various stages of the tournament, and more.

I was responsible for:

• Conceptualizing the event

• Picking the mascots who would take part

• Writing and scheduling the match up posts

• Writing and scheduling posts throughout the tournament updating users about who was in the lead

You can read the first post of the event here.
You can read the final post of the event here.

We once again gave users the ability to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community by completing gamified challenges to unlock Pride collectibles.

In 2023, we expanded the event by adding a new set of premium Pride collectibles to the Game Jolt Shop. (All proceeds from the sale of these collectibles were donated to The Trevor Project at the end of the month.) We also celebrated LGBTQ+ characters from across gaming history in a series of posts.

In producing these events I:

• Collaborated with the art team to create the new premium collectibles.

• Wrote daily post highlighting a LGBTQ+ video game character. (I heavily consulted GLAAD's lists.)

• Created all social assets.

• Created all quests (which are gamified, time-limited challenges.) 

  • Examples include asking users to post why they love their favorite LGBTQ+ video game character and placing digital stickers on posts that use Pride backgrounds.

An event inspired by Five Nights at Freddy's! The plot of this event was that there's an abandoned pizza place filled with animatronic versions of the Game Jolt mascots. Users were tasked with helping repair Animatronic Kikkerstein which meant they had to (via positive engagement on the site) traverse the pizzeria to find the needed parts to repair him.

Users were encouraged to engage on game through quests including:

• Help Repair Animatronic Kikkerstein

  • Users had to follow Steel Wool Studios' Game Jolt account and place a battery sticker on a specified post to get the parts needed to repair Animatronic Kikkerstein.
    
    When they did, a jumpscare would play. After that, they received a trophy of Animatronic Kikkerstein's broken eyes.

• Design Your Own Animatronic

  • Users posted their own original animatronic and were entered to win Five Nights at Freddy's merch from Youtooz.

• Post a Photo of Your Favorite Five Nights at Freddy's Merch

  • Pretty self-explanatory, but it was designed to be an easy to complete way for FNaF fans to enter to win even more merch.

I was responible for:

• Ideating and building quests

• Coordinating with the art team to design all of the animatronic mascots

• Shipping all merch items that came from Game Jolt's supply

• Creating all promo assets

• Writing and scheduling all posts on Game Jolt and external socials to get users hyped about the event.

Completing the various quests entered users to win Five Nights at Freddy's merch from Game Jolt's supply as well as from Youtooz and Steel Wool Studios.

You can see the announcement post here.

I produced Game Jolt's event celebrating Sonic's anniversary in 2023.

The cornerstone of the event was a series of three different livestreams which each engaged with the Sonic the Hedgehog franchise in a different way. (One made fan art, one performed music, and one made a Sonic cake.)

We also added three Sonic-inspired quests to users' quest logs (including one where users had to engage with the Game Jolt community to acquire the Chaos Emeralds.)

In producing these events I:

• Booked the streams

• Produced and directed the streams

• Created promotional assets and drafted social copy.

• Created quests

• Posted about the event on Game Jolt and other socials to spread the word and build hype.

You can see Game Jolt's post about the event here.

Game Jolt partnered with Kane and Emil Macko (who Five Nights at Freddy's fan devs) on an art contest!

To enter, users posted fan art of POPGOES (Kane's game) or Five Nights at Candy's (Emil's game.) After the end of the quest, they each picked winners and runners up!

For this event I was responsible for:

• Worked with Kane to create promo images and ideate quests

• Worked with Kane to determine which prizes would go to which developer's winner

• Building quests

• Writing social copy for the event and posting about it on Game Jolt and external socials to get the Five Nights at Freddy's community hyped about the event.

• Shipping items to the winners

You can see the post announcing the contest here.

Game Jolt celebrated the release of The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom with quests, livestreams and more!

Game Jolt Creators made Zelda-inspired music, cakes and art. Users got Zelda-inspired quests (including one to build the Triforce. Users were also able to get a Zelda sticker pack!

For this event, I was responsible for:

• Ideating and building quests

• Creating promo assets

• Booking and tech producing livestreams.

• Writing social copy for the event and posting about it on Game Jolt and external socials.

• Hosting a restream of the Tears of the Kingdom release stream.

You can see the announcement post here.

Game Jolt's 2023 celebration of Star Wars included quests, stickers, and more!

The quests th

For this quest I was responsible for:

• Ideating and building quests

• Creating promo assets

• Writing social copy for the event and posting about it on Game Jolt and external socials.

You can see the announcement post here.

GJ Awards 2022 (Dec. 2022)

We hosted our very own awards show in 2022! Users were able to nominate and then vote for their favorite users and Creators in the following categories:

• Eye-Catching Art Style

• Based Beyond Belief

• Chattiest Chatter

• Cringiest of the Cringe

• Dandiest Doodler

• Fan Artist of the Year

• Fangame of the Year

• Fangame Developer of the Year

• High-Speed Headshot of the Year

• Grooviest Tunes

• Most Likely to Make You Laugh

• Meme Master of the Year

• Minecraft Builder Extraordinaire

• Most Wholesome

• Online at All Times

• Pixel Art Prodigy

• World's Biggest Pokéfan

• Richest Robloxian

• Roblox Dev / Team of the Year

• Scaredy Cat of the Year

• Goofiest Gameplay Streamer

• Wackiest Creator

• Game of the Year

After voting wrapped up, we announced the winners. We also gave trophies to all of the nominees and winners. You can see our post announcing the winners here.

Produced for Game Jolt. Happy Joltidays was Game Jolt's celebration of the holiday season in 2022! The event featured live streams, giveaways, and more! 

The event's live streams include:

• My interview with Beesechurger_73

• A maker fireside with AugmentedArtist

• A holiday cakemaking stream with Caketastic Cakes

• A holiday concert with WiseDrums

• A Roblox gameplay stream with BeardedMuscle

• A crocheting stream with Chrisis.Art

• A live animating stream with Kronos Studios

• A live art-making stream with Erbmaster

The event's giveaways included a Steam Deck, gift cards, Game Jolt merch, and more! 

My work on this event included:

• The initial conceptualization of the event

• Booking streams

• Assembling promo assets for giveaways

• Coordinating giveaways

• Coordinating with developers

• Coordinating with our in-house artist

• Coordinating with the marketing team

You can see a post detailing the prizes here.

You can see a post detailing the livestream here.

Produced for Game Jolt in collaboration with Re-Logic, the event ran from Nov 14 to Nov 21, 2022.

I coordinated with Game Jolt's art, development, and marketing teams on this event. 

Skeletron Prime is a boss from the game Terraria and on November 18th, it attacked Game Jolt in a live stream. In that stream, users could attack the villain by placing stickers of weapons from Terraria including the Star Cannon, Golden Shower, Megashark, and Light Disc. Every time a user defeated Skeletron Prime, there was a chance that "Rick Prime" (aka Rick Astley) would appear instead.

Users could get these weapon stickers by fulfilling quests or placing "ingredient stickers" on "crafting station" posts to craft them. 

Our goal with this event was to increase KPIs relating to engagement (which is why we used the mechanic of placing stickers to fight the monster) and it was a huge success.

My work on this event included:

• The initial conceptualization of the event.

• Coordinating with developers to set scope and timeline. Made sure all needed development happened on schedule.

• Coordinating with our in-house artist on static image assets both for the event and for promotional materials.

• Coordinating with the marketing team

• Coordinating with Re-Logic

• Creating and animating Skeletron Prime in Adobe Character Animator.

Produced for Game Jolt. This was our international quest completion tournament! The event ran from November 21st through December 12th. 

At the start of the tournament, we randomly placed users onto teams led by one of Game Jolt's mascots. It was a bracket-style tournament that lasted through three rounds. Each round lasted a week. At the end of each round, the teams that scored the least points were eliminated.

It was really cool seeing how excited our users got! They even cheered on their team with posts and fan art.

My work on this event included:

• The initial conceptualization of the event

• Picking which mascots were included

• Coordinating with developers

• Coordinating with our in-house artist

• Coordinating with the marketing team

• Creating and updating the bracket image

Produced for Game Jolt, this was our special Halloween-week event! It featured live streams, art challenges, quests, and more! Some prizes Game Jolt gave away include Sims game codes and gear from Alienware. 

Streams included live horror art making by Erbmaster, live FNaF art making with Ultimate Ink Trash, Horror cake-making with Caketastic Cakes, and an It Follows gameplay stream with Planet Drewpiter! 

The final stream of the week was our Cursed Concert featuring BMX Escape, WiseDrums, DEFENSE MECHANISM, and Marc Spence. 

My work on this event included:

• The initial conceptualization of the event

• Booking streams

• Drawing some of the art assets

• Walking our musicians through their tech checks

• Hosting the concert stream

• Coordinating with developers

• Coordinating with our in-house artist

• Coordinating with the marketing team

Here's one of Game Jolt's posts about the event!

A concert featuring the most prolific musician of all time, Matt Farley! It took place on September 30, 2022.

My work on this event included:

• Booking Matt

• Walking Matt through using Game Jolt's livestreaming set up.

• Coordinating with the marketing team on promotional assets and strategy.

• Monitoring and moderating chat during his livestream.

Produced for Game Jolt. Starting in July 2022, we worked with our friends at PlusMusic to host a monthly concert series on the last Friday of each month! Artists featured as part of the concert series include Cujo Moon, Tre Aces, Love X Stereo, Nite, Devours, and Waterflame. 

My work on this event series included:

• Booking artists from Game Jolt

• Introducing the musicians to Game Jolt's livestreaming platform.

• Helping tech check all of the musicians

• Hosting the concert streams

• Coordinating on the day of

• Editing each musician's set into individual videos

• Coordinating with the marketing team

• Coordinating with our in-house artist

Produced for Game Jolt. Girls in Games was a concept game jam celebrating women who work in the Games Industry! 

It kicked off with a day-long live stream with presentations and panels by over 20 games professionals including 2022 Game Award winner Mila Pavlin who told us about how God of War approached accessibility. 

My work on this event included:

• Coordination on the day of

• Tech checking the presenters

• Troubleshooting presenters' technical issues

Produced for Game Jolt. This was an art challenge where we challenged our users to make their best, worst art! 

The winner's art was turned into a sticker on Game Jolt!

You can see some of the bad art that we shouted out here and here.

We celebrated the birthday of Sonic the Hedgehog with two days of special streams! (We also raised money helping folks in Ukraine.)

The event featured a Sonic cake-making stream by Caketastic Cakes, a Sonic speedrun by JoeyBaby69 and dTraitor1, and an art stream by PxlSenpai.

My work on this event included:

• Conceptualizing the event

• Booking streams

• Tech checking all streamers and troubleshooting any tech issues

• Setting up the Tiltify for the charity component

E3 took the year off, so Game Jolt introduced G3: Games Games Games! We 

My work on this event included:

• Conceptualizing the event

• Hosting re-streams of various video game showcases.

• Creating all assets for the stream including bumpers, image assets, backgrounds, and more.

• Creating all promo assets for the event.

• Posting about the event on Game Jolt to alert users and get them more hyped.

You can see the kickoff post on Game Jolt here.

In 2022, we gave users the ability to show their support for the LGBTQ+ community by completing gamified challenges to unlock Pride collectibles. We also teamed up with 

This was one of my first events at Game Jolt!

In producing this event I:

• Created quests to give out LGBTQ+ backgrounds inspired by the various pride flags.

You can read a post about it here.