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I'm Cote, a narrative designer and novelist published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux and Simon & Schuster. My debut novel was a finalist for the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize and won the High Plains Book Award.

 

I bring a storytelling sensibility to games — built on player choice, consequential dialogue, and indelible characters.

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Read my game writing philosophy →

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Let's build a world together.

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THE PENITENT

Original narrative design concept

A survival horror game set on an experimental prison island where guard and inmate live side-by-side — until something goes wrong.

  • Game pitch

  • Opening cinematic

  • Quest design -> documentation

  • Character sheets

  • Diegetic text — Aggie's letters

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PLAYABLE GAMES

A short horror game about a woman hiding from her boyfriend in the one place no one dares to go.

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A branching Twine narrative about corporate sabotage — inspired by a real 1944 OSS field manual.

A branching dialogue game about bedtime negotiations with a seven-year-old who is wiser than she has any right to be.

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