Gabe Chao

Creative Writer | Fiction, Video Games

United States

Experienced QA tester specializing in Microsoft Store Compliance Testing (CERT). I have eight years of experience in the former and four years of experience in the latter. I'm credited on seven AAA titles.

In my spare time, I like to read (Jade City, Snow Crash, Demian, to name a few favorites), listen from a variety of music from K-pop to electronic to rock, and write whatever pops to mind. And of course, I play video games with my favorite genre being RPGs (Dragon Age, Cyberpunk 2077, Persona) and games that support creative narratives or worlds (Alan Wake, NO MORE HEROES, Hotline Miami, Red Dead Redemption). Though, I admit, I still have a guilty pleasure for League of Legends (any Hwei fans?).

At the moment, I'm building up my portfolio--whether finishing my personal projects or helping create with other indie developers--to maybe one day write for a AAA published game.

Portfolio

Indie Projects

itch.io
08/07/2025
Last Night

You're awaken in the middle of the night. A short story about a relationship set in the Cyberpunk 2077 universe. || Wrote in Google Docs. Made with Twine.

itch.io
06/28/2022
Of Frost and Flowers

An invention created to bring happiness becomes the world's greatest weapon of destruction. || Visual novel game jam project headed and led by Elseth for Otome Game Jam 2022. I helped with writing (credited) and proofreading (not credited).

Indie Projects - Extras

Google Docs
Of Frost and Flowers - Excerpts

Excerpts of a few scenes I wrote for "Of Frost and Flowers," a visual novel game jam project headed and led by Elseth for Otome Game Jam 2022.

Game Writing/Development

Google Docs
M3: Build Your Story Stack

Assignment done for Module 3 for The Narrative Department, Spring 2022. The exercise was to take one of your favorite games and generate three new narrative ideas after identifying the elements from the game from the least flexible to the most flexible, and then proposing new ideas that still support those story stack elements. I decided to choose inFAMOUS (Sucker Punch Productions, 2009).

Google Docs
M2: Stuck in an Elevator

An assignment during Week 2, Module 2: How to Create Characters for Games for The Narrative Department, Spring 2022. Three characters from three different titles are, well, stuck in an elevator; in this case, I used Arthur Morgan from Red Dead Redemption 2, Teddie/Kuma from Persona 4, and The Outsider from the Dishonored series as my three characters.

Prose Samples

Google Docs
Grandma's Funeral

The red envelope Mom placed in front of me lay lonely on the corner of the side table. It was unmarked on the front; no address to anyone. Hesitantly, I reached out and turned it over. A golden wax seal with the image of a crow emerging from a water lily kept the back flap shut.

Google Docs
Shadows

Aiden's mother left after being called away by a family emergency, but couldn't bring him along. School night. The usual babysitter was their next door neighbor's daughter, and luckily after receiving permission from her parents, was able to stay over on short notice. At the scheduled bedtime his...

Google Docs
WIP Fantasy Novel

He smirked, shrugging when she gave him a raised eyebrow. "As you can see, it's more showy than practical." He led her past the small adjoining rooms, where crowds smiled and laughed, holding their glasses of drinks to occupy their free hands. They made a left into another hallway before ending...