Hello!

You'd like to learn more... about me? Well, I hope you have a couple minutes to spare!

From filling notebooks with stories as a young girl to creating lines of folders filled with files now, writing has always been my passion. While it was a video game that inspired me to craft my own stories, develop characters, settings, and even a magic system when I was young, it wasn't until 2020 that I accepted what I had been doing for years was professionally called: game writing.

When the world went remote, my friends and I turned to tabletop role-playing games (Dungeons & Dragons to be specific) for social meetups. It was a spiral down the rabbit hole and into a new world of writing for me, this time designing stories and writing up adventures, characters, and lore, while also learning how to balance everything against tabletop game mechanics. This newfound passion led me to start Vault Keeper Press (formerly Auriga Wayfinders), where I found that adding my project management skills allowed my game writing to become more focused and productive leading me to create at least five 1,000 - 3,000 word lore articles, detailed character write-ups, and supplementary game material each week that allowed players to further immerse themselves in the world. In my spare time, I founded the stationery shop, Vault of Arcanum, to supply other TTRPG game lovers some cute stationery for their notebooks and journals!

After an intensive video game writing course and writing competition from ELVTR, I realized how I could channel my creative and professional efforts moving forward. I'm aiming to bring the world crafted for a tabletop game into the video game sphere via my latest project Vault Keeper Studios and am currently working towards developing some interactive fiction games that allows game masters and players to immerse themselves into a world they can then explore at their own table.

I am always excited to get an opportunity to collaborate and bring worlds and characters to life, immersing players into a new setting they can visit whenever they wish!

You can reach via my contact page or send me an email at janellecbawayan+games@gmail.com.