Michaela Joffe

Illustrator, Game Designer, Writer

About

Michaela Joffe is an artist and writer from Seattle, Washington. Her artwork has appeared on such diverse projects as escape rooms, candy bar wrappers, video games, classroom materials, interactive children's books and zines.

Her writing on art and ecology has appeared at Zam, ZEAL, Critical Distance and re/Action. She has also written two children's books published for iOS by Famloop.

You can play some of her games at her itch store.
You can read her interdisciplinary blog Videogames of the Oppressed.
You can tip her via her ko-fi

Interested in hiring her? Get in touch!

Illustration and Design

Character Design

Games and Apps

NARRATIVE DESIGN

Benthic Love (2013) The critically acclaimed marine biology dating sim. Lead designer and writer.

The Handsomest Echidna (2013) Interactive children's story and game about endangered and unique animals. Lead designer, writer and animator. Praised by the Zoological Society of London's Edge of Existence Progamme.

Eft to Newt (2014) Interactive fiction made in Twine. Lead designer and writer. Featured in Instar Book's Lambda-nominated anthology Videogames for Humans (2015).

Dream of an Acacia Tree (2015) Interactive fiction about magical realism botany. Lead designer, writer and artist. Featured at the Alternative Digital Art Festival (Olympia, WA 2015).

Post-Apocalyptic Punk Mermaids (2019) Tabletop roleplaying game set to release in 2019 by Clione Games. Lead designer and writer.

PUBLICATIONS

The Academic Axolotl (2012). Educational book for children about biology. Published for iOS by Famloop.

Pica the Pangolin and the Greedy Guzzler (2012). Children's Book designed to teach kids about lesser known animals through fairy tales and fables. Published for iOS by Famloop.

SELECTED ARTICLES

The Untold History of Slimes Originally published at Readyset Zam.

Conflict Minerals and Games Featured on Critical Distance.

More articles available at Videogames of the Oppressed.

MISC CREDITS

Epic Team Adventures (2017-2018). Contributed storyboards, illustrations, character designs, puzzle creation and prop design for interactive adventures and escape rooms including A Christmas Carol, Art of the Chase, The Sparrow Files: Emerald City Confidential and Maze of Games.

Contact

I'm currently available for writing, illustration, character design, game design and narrative design work.

I can be reached at
[email protected]