Hi! I’m Julia. I develop games, make art, and write about creativity & interactive media. I believe passionately in the unparalleled power of games to help people feel, think, and become.

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Benedict Beaver the Builder
Puzzle

Benedict Beaver the Builder is a puzzle game made in four days for GMTK 2024. After a devastating flood, build new homes for animal pals in Birch Grove!

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Stellar Shepherd
Action

Stellar Shepherd is an action game made in a week for Pizza Jam 2024. Herd sheep in zero gravity!

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Liminal
Visual Novel

Run into your ex. Make small talk. Cry. A 500-word visual novel made in a few days.

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Blackden Isle
Adventure

WIP game assets for the second Mockup Jam.

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Plein Air
Adventure

Your grandfather raised you to love flying, making his living mapping natural resources and ancient ruins along the coast of rural Greece and its many islands. When he falls ill, it’s up to you to finish his final maps.

Plein Air is a meditative journey of flight. Pilot your grandfather's plane, explore lush seaside landscapes, and uncover resources to paint in each map’s missing details.

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Tentaclescape
Puzzle

Tentaclescape is a puzzle game, made in five days, where you play as Cthulhu, filling monster-trapping boxes with your tentacles to cause the box to shatter and break free.

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Summon Squad
Puzzle

Explore a haunted house by solving puzzles with a little help from your summoned friends.

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Juniper's Understory
Visual Novel

Join Juniper as she tells her grandchild about her strange stint as a forester in the Pacific Northwest, c. late 1970s.

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Spring's Ballet
Action

Spring's Ballet is an action game made in 48 hours for GMTK 2023 where you drag lily pads to support randomly jumping frogs, creating generative music in the process.

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Tender
Visual Novel

Tend to your missing parents' terrarium in an intergalactic research station. Discover symbioses between terrestrial and extraterrestrial plants. Watch meteor showers.

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A Winter Away
Visual Novel

A Winter Away is a short, hand-drawn visual novel about a daughter duck who recently moved far away from her aging mama. Write letters back and forth! Chat with the mailbirb!

Loosely inspired by Winnie the Pooh, bitsy games, and the playwright Velina Hasu Houston,  A Winter Away is the first game in a series of bite-sized visual novels set in the same cozy world.

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