Tommy Bozzelli
Game Designer and Writer
I'm a Miami University senior majoring in Games and Simulation, and double minoring in Creative Writing and Interdisciplinary Studies. Expected to graduate May 2025, I am currently working on a senior capstone with my team to develop and publish a video game.
I have experience with tabletop game design as well as digital from a variety of projects. In addition I'm a writer passionate about creating story worlds, game narratives, and transmedia storytelling experiences.​
Tommy at GDEX 2024
Projects
Master the craft of drink making as an adorable feline barista. Choose from 8 different purristas with various unique purrks. Collect ingredients to make purrfect recipes before your fellow purristas. Each recipe is worth Toe Bean tokens. Collect sets of recipes for bonus points and to attack other players. Whoever makes 6 recipes first ends the game and the cat with the most Toe Bean tokens wins. This fun and competitive blend of cats and coffee can support 2-6 players and spans over numerous rounds.
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Project:
Tabletop Card Game
Date:
February - May 2024
Role:
Designer | Editor | Playtester
Made alongside:
Elizabeth Cool Leitzell: Creator | Designer | Artist
A set collection farming game where you cultivate the best assortment of crops.
You are a farmer growing crops on a communal plot of farm land. The other farmers are hoping for the best crops to sell and are willing to harvest the ones you spend time planting so you are gonna have to beat them at their own game. Once all the crops are harvested the farmer with the best crop collection wins.
A full release for purchase on The Game Crafter is currently in production!
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Project:
Tabletop Card Game
Date:
Initial development:
April 2022
Revisited:
December 2024 - Ongoing
Role:
Co-Creator | Designer | Writer | Editor
Made alongside:
Angel Hardy:
Co-Creator | Artist
Check out The Game Crafter Store Page
Dumpster Baby is a world of animals not so different from our own. Play as Bandit, an upbeat and goofy raccoon as you meet and befriend a community of those othered by society. In an emotional story of queer homelessness and community learn what it means to connect and share during your quest to find housing in a world where it feels like the odds are against you.​​
Project:
Video Game built in Unity
Date:
February 2024 - Ongoing
Role:
Designer | Producer
Made alongside:
Angel Hardy:
Creator | Artist
Leah Stewart:
Artist
Sam Bowsher: Programmer
Josef Arnold: Programmer
Sophie Arcusa: Composer
A four player couch co-op Mario Party meets D&D video game. Players move throughout a game board trying to accumulate the most treasure out of everyone playing. They can use items, play minigames, and achieve objectives throughout the game to increase their coin count. Be noble to acquire more reputation, or lose reputation by performing deceitful acts to undermine the other players. The more reputation players gain or lose the more their character progresses through their respective Paragon or Renegade arc. Progressing through the overarching narrative of the game board.
Project:
Video Game proof of concept built in Unity
Date:
January - May 2024
Role:
Designer | Writer
Made alongside:
Aiden Pearson:
Co-Creator | Programmer | Designer
Sadie Zeedrich:
Co-Creator | Artist | Writer
Josef Arnold: Programmer
Angel Hardy:
Artist
Cass lives a simple life in the city of Casterial, working at his adoptive father’s shipyard to construct aircrafts. Most people in Casterial will never journey beyond the city, into the dense, dangerous Everhaze which covers most of the rest of the world, but Cass longs to venture into that majestic unknown. When an opportunity to see that world falls into his lap, Cass sets forth to discover the beauty of the world beyond the home he’s known all his life, and yet why the Everhaze is so feared. This choice brings him face to face with Dread Pirates and other entities existing in the Everhaze.
Project:
Story World & Narrative Design Document
Date:
January - March 2022
Role:
Co-Creator | Writer
Made alongside:
J Scherrer:
Co-Creator | Writer
Connor Zielinski:
Co-Creator | Writer
Darcy Hayes:
Co-Creator | Writer
Christen Niedzielski:
Co-Creator | Writer | Artist
I’m also active on itch.io, write game reviews to my Backloggd page, write short stories, and many other things! I go by the handle Guiding Moonlight or some slight variation of it on most platforms.
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