Tabletop RPG Designs
Four tabletop projects for FATE: a universe inside the human body, a heist, a campaign and a political world.
Oğuzhan “Ozzy” Açıkalın
Technical Narrative Designer & Writer
Istanbul, Türkiye · UTC+3 · Open to remote
Hi, I’m Oğuzhan. Most people call me Ozzy. I’m a self-taught narrative designer from Istanbul and a co-founder of InEv Games, where I lead writing and narrative design.
I build branching stories in the engine and write them. A scene starts in my notebook, then I build it as a node graph with its variables and conditions. I also design and balance game economies.
Away from the screen I write short fiction in Turkish and run tabletop campaigns in FATE.
My Selected Works
- Livber: Smoke and MirrorsWriter & Narrative DesignerSep 2024–Oct 2025A fully voiced horror visual novel set in one house, with eight endings. I wrote the whole script and designed its branching. Released on Steam in October 2025.
- Tales of the TradeNarrative Designer & Game Designer2025–presentStudio work at UniqueNPC on an Unreal Engine title, as narrative designer and game designer. The details are under NDA, and I can walk through my process in an interview.
- MilordTechnical Narrative Designer2025–presentA kingdom management RPG in Early Access on Steam. I build the writer’s court scenes in VSM and connect their choices to the realm and map. VSM is our in-house node-based writing tool for Unity.
- Kardiya: The Winds of FateTechnical Narrative Designer & Writer2024–presentA narrative RPG inspired by Hamlet. In challenges, the player chooses an action and rolls for its outcome. I designed the narrative structure and its variables and conditions, set up the writers’ pipeline, and wrote its text.
- Ghost in the NetWriter & Narrative Designer2026A cyberpunk infiltration story in Twine that I made alone: 504 passages, 70 story variables, about an hour and a half of play. Every obstacle is written three times, once for each stat.
- Data.exeGame Designer, Writer & Programmer2026An automation game on a Windows 98 desktop, built in Godot by two people. I designed its four-tier economy and priced it from real play logs. Demo on Steam.
- Potato.exeGame Designer, Writer & Programmer2026An incremental game on a 1998 office PC. I balanced its wheel-spin economy with a simulator, paced its events to the player’s income, and wrote its five-act story and its jokes. Demo on Steam.
Tools: VSM, articy:draft X, ink, Yarn Spinner, Twine, ChoiceScript, Arcweave, Unreal Engine, Unity, Dialogue System for Unity
More work
Baldur's Gate II Turkish Fan Translation
Completed Hexxat's dialogue translation. An unofficial team project that ended unfinished.
Four-Legged Werewolf
A branching mystery with nine endings, published on Ustory.
The Dawn: Resurrection
A base-building survival story planned first as a fixed run of 20 nights, then rebuilt as six modules that play in any order.