Audiences aren't tuning out.

They're starving for something real.

We are drowning in a tsunami of sameness and slop. Anyone with a pulse can feel it. I'm Brooke Burgess, and for decades I've built worlds, stories, and experiences that still resonate, across games, screens, audio, and interactive. Now I help my clients do that in the AI era, while never losing sight of their north star.

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The full spectrum

GamesTech + productVenturesKids + learningScreenAudioOriginal IP

Selected work

Stories in motion.

All projects

01 / 05

Games

UNGODLY · Azra Games

Dialogue and quest writer

Dialogue and quest writing for Azra Games' dark fantasy universe.

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02 / 05

Games

Fallen

Creator · Narrative director

An Unreal Engine 5 action-adventure set across the Seven Realms of Hell.

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03 / 05

Original IP

Mind Dojo

Co-creator · Narrative and learning design

An AI-powered thinking-skills game built around process, reflection, and a long-term Sensei relationship.

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04 / 05

Film + Screen

Broken Saints

Creator · Writer · Director

The award-winning motion-comic epic that reached a global audience before the form had a name.

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05 / 05

Film + Screen

My Favourite Thing

Writer · Director · Narrator

A modern fable about a kitten searching for the most important thing in the universe.

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The mission

I want to save your project's soul.

After decades in the interactive-storytelling trenches, I've spent the last three years deep in the AI tools themselves, living the thrill and the disappointment both. I know what they do well, and exactly where they gut a story. This is the work now: interactive and linear projects where discernment and soul keep the tech in check. I've trained in-house models, led world, quest, and character creation on AI-driven projects, and watched "systems-over-story" fail from the inside.

So I know precisely where the soul leaks out of a project. My job is making sure you don't trade precious signal for shiny new tools and the siren song of endless content.

Keep the signal. Kill the noise. And help your story cook.

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Three ways in

AI can make infinite things. It can't tell you which of them is any good, or why the good ones actually move people. That's where I come in.

The Diagnostic

A fixed-scope deep read of what you've built: story, structure, and where it stops landing emotionally. You get a clear map of what's working, what's broken, and what it takes to fix it, before it costs you a launch.

The Fractional

Ongoing senior judgment on a retainer. I sit above your process as the story's conscience: reviewing, steering, raising the floor on everything that ships. For teams who need the vision and the discernment, but aren't hiring for it full-time.

Tip to Tail

I come in as a director-level architect and build, or rebuild, the whole thing from the foundations, shoulder to shoulder with your team. Reserved for the special ones, where capital-V vision is baked in from day one.