About Me

I’m Amanda Sharkey, an undergraduate student from Scottsdale, Arizona studying Interactive Entertainment at the University of Southern California. While only starting my game design education, my specialties lie in production and design. My current projects include producing a graduate thesis game, helping to run a secret ARG for USC Cinema students, and managing a campus tabletop RPG organization. Outside of my academic and professional field, you can probably find me playing Dungeons and Dragons, keeping up with the competitive Classic Tetris scene, or live Tweeting the newest episode of The Bachelorette.

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Portofolio Highlights

Here are a few samples of my work. Hover and click any item to see details, or click the button below to see my full portfolio.


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Carrie's Station

Unreal Engine Game


C.A.R.R.I.E.’s Station is a short game I created at Ringling PreCollege 2019 for a game design course. It follows a rogue space explorer after they find themselves trapped in an abandoned research station by a corrupted AI. This is only a demo, acting as a proof of concept for my ideas. I’m very proud of how I was able to execute my lofty level and narrative design goals.


C.A.R.R.I.E.’s Station was developed in UE4. The character model/rigging, checkpoint flags, and coin pickups were assets provided by the class. The rest of the programming, design, and modeling was done by myself.

MIGHTY!

Card Game

MIGHTY! is an original card game I created during fall 2020 for my Game Design Workshop class. As the project lead, I worked with classmates Melody Guo, Leo Chiu, and Michael Lu to produce a fast paced PVP game inspired by childlike imagination. Due to remote learning, MIGHTY! was made in Tabletop Simulator, and you can find its Steam Workshop page here.

Loyal Knight

Twine Interactive Story


Loyal Knight is the final project from my Ringling PreCollege class. It's a 6,500 word, 52 passage Twine story that follows a morally lost royal soldier. In total, it took about a week to design and write the game.