Yerba Buena

Date: Feb 2023 - Mar 2026
Category: Game Design, Level Design

In February 2023, I joined Mad About Pandas as a Game and Level Designer to work on their then unannounced title Yerba Buena, a surreal first-person puzzle-platforming adventure as Barb, a young woman living as an NPC in an abandoned game world.

Your beloved city of San Francisco is under threat from a sinister plot and it is up to you to save it with the help of a mysterious and powerful device: the Oscillator. Master a ground-breaking “Copy and Paste” mechanic and manipulate the gameworld by applying the movement and physical traits of certain objects onto others. Give a table the bounce of a trampoline, send entire buildings across city blocks or turn solid walls into thin air!