Game & systems design, quest and narrative ownership, worldbuilding and writing. From mobile interactive fiction to midcore MMORPGs.
Led Quest Design feature on an MMORPG, developing features such as Quest Mechanics, Quest Journal, Player Navigation from scratch. Coordinated Dev, UI and Content teams building a unified toolset, set up a clear workflow and oversaw design and implementation of 200+ quests with branching narrative and story.
Increased narrative coherence and onboarding speed by turning ~600 pages of legacy lore into a 35-page Lore Bible used across departments, and by driving storylines that raised emotional stakes and player engagement across multiple titles.
Wrote and supervised interactive stories for mobile romance and detective games, from outlines to final scripts, and produced branching narratives and dialogue that improved retention and replayability in chat-based and visual novel-style projects.
Interactive stories platform with romance, drama, and historical storylines.
Mobile detective interactive fiction with branching investigations.
Historically-authentic interactive detective game based on Boris Akunin’s works.
Midcore MMORPG with cross-faction city-hub, quest-driven progression and worldbuilding.
Game design document for an MMO inventory system: item types, equipment slots, size-based layout, edge cases, and interactions with other systems (movement speed, encumbrance, economy).
Detailed description of quest logic and structure using Articy:Draft 3: flows, stages, conditions and export rules for integration with the game engine. (Russian-language GDD)
Quest marker and guidance system aimed at reducing “lost” states and improving onboarding, using clear signposting, map markers and progression visibility. (Russian-language GDD)
Web prototype of an MMORPG inventory described in the GDD: multi-slot items, sorting and basic UX behaviors to feel gear management in a grid-based system.
Sample story with branching dialogue in the setting inspired by "The Expanse".
Refined ~600 pages of pre-written lore into a 35-page Lore Bible powering quests, ingame books and community content; defined physics, geography, magic, history, factions and materials.
Designed the main cross-faction hub and starting area; authored Area Summary templates to standardize briefs for Art, Level Design and Content teams.
Zone strategy inspired by World of Warcraft-style biomes: worked with art to define strong visual identities and gameplay hooks per region.
Romance during the Hundred Years’ War; historical interactive drama.
Murder of a perfume engineer in modern NYC; detective outline for a mobile interactive game.
Conversation with a war journalist torn between reporting and taking up arms; moral pressure cooker for a chat-based dating game.
Dialogue with an undercover spy on the brink of defection; tension-driven narrative for a chat-based dating game.
Sherlock-style investigation in late-19th-century Moscow, based on novels by Boris Akunin.
Self-aware, tongue-in-cheek meta-script about interactive stories, set in 1970s London.
Research and concept document exploring experimental narrative features for life simulator games.
Quest built for The Witcher II in Red Engine in 2018. First venture in Game Design, a reference point for later work on guidance and UX.
Concept GDD emulating a Chronicles-style DLC for AoE II: Definitive Edition, covering The Great Northern War between Russia and Sweden (XVIII century).
Story-driven archaeology event chain designed for Stellaris.
Crypto-historical Earth with magic, fantasy species and time travel; a parody of conspiracy tropes and a love letter to world history.
Standalone short story set in the Fringe Earth universe, reflecting on the Russian invasion of Ukraine through speculative fiction.
Custom regional and global maps created for tabletop campaigns and worldbuilding exercises.
© Andrew Belenkiy. This page summarizes public, non-NDA portfolio highlights from commercial and personal projects.