Personal Projects

Stardew Valley Romance Project

Role: Creator | Mod for Stardew Valley | Duration: 3 years (ongoing)

This mod adds fifteen new lines of dialogue per marriage candidate in Stardew Valley, the hit indie farming simulator by Eric Barone. Many people, including myself, felt the romance system in the game fell flat due to lack of dialogue acknowledging the relationship between the player and their romantic companion, so I set out to fix that. My dialogue is heavily inspired by the style Harvest Moon: Animal Parade uses, while still striving to be seamless with the vanilla game, not changing any character's personality or established canon.

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Of all the characters published, they have nearly 20,000 downloads combined. One beta tester said: "I think you've got [Elliott's personality] spot on. Better than the developer in a few places, in fact."

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Accomplishments:

• Writing dialogue for pre-established characters.

• Managing a development blog for QA testing and user support.

• Collaborating with overseas volunteers to translate/localize the dialogue to German and Brazilian Portuguese.

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