Nicki Minaj: The Empire

Mobile Narrative Celebrity Game

Glu Mobile

Nicki Minaj: The Empire was a celebrity role-playing game for mobile devices featuring the music, voice, likeness, and inspiration of Nicki Minaj, the queen of rap.

As a Narrative Game Designer for the project, I helped develop the characters and storyline of the game, write quest scripts, and script narrative sequences using the game's custom scripting editor.

Narrative Game Designer

- Narrative Design

- Game Writing

- Game Design

- Scripting/Staging

Quest Writing

I wrote quest scripts for Nicki Minaj: The Empire's main quest storyline including the following sample documents.

The video to the left features excerpts from scripts I wrote for the game.

Sample Quest Script Documents

The Kingz Immortalz

No Friends in the Game

12 Days of Craysmus - Day 12

Quest Scripting

Using the game's custom script editor, I placed characters, moved cameras, triggered animations, and blocked out scenes for key moments in the game.

This video features excerpts from narrative sequences that I scripted for the game.

Characters

Nicki Minaj: The Empire features a rich and diverse cast of characters representing the player character's friends, rivals, allies, and antagonists under the mentorship of Nicki Minaj.

This video highlights characters I helped develop for the game.

Narrative Themes

The game's narrative themes range from the highs and lows of fame, to the palace intrigue of music industry executives, and to the enduring power of love, friendship, and faith in oneself.

This video highlights the narrative themes explored in the game's story.