
ABOUT ❀ ME
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Kelsey / Rella Pham
GAME WRITER & NARRATIVE DESIGNER
A wordsmith who can't help but toil over the sound of every line... all so that they may pluck the strings of people's hearts and trace the essence of our very souls. May they tell the world: "Within these flowering tales, no emotion nor person is a stranger."

Hello! My name is Kelsey Pham, though many of my peers know me as “Rella.” I'm a 2x Gold Winner for GDC's Narrative Review Competition and USV's Class of 2025 Valedictorian. Fascinated by the way words can be woven together to invent meaning, I write to create something capable of stirring people’s hearts. Be it romantic tensions that send the heart aflutter, a thrilling drama fit for high fantasy settings, bleak cyberpunk tales, or anything and everything in-between, I'm just a call away to expose all that makes us human in the stories we'll craft together.
When I'm not putting my all into game dev work, I am likely writing and/or drawing my own personal stories and characters; analyzing and reviewing narrative across various media; or researching our grand world’s diverse cultures and histories (with a strong focus on Sinosphere cultures!) to my heart’s content. As for what I’m doing if it’s none of the above? Then I am enthusiastically rambling away about how adorable bunnies are in the company of my loved ones.


WORK ❀ HISTORY
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2025
▸ Love on Company Time
Narrative Designer · Game Writer · QA Tester
▸ Project Bookcraft
Project Manager · Narrative Design Lead · Game Writer · Level Designer · 2D Artist
2024
▸ Return of the Tomb Raider
Project Manager · Narrative Design Lead · Game Writer · Level Designer
▸ SMOG
Project Manager · Game Writer
▸ Echoes of Anya
Project Management Assistant · Game Writer · Documentation Writer · QA Tester