About me
Hello! My name is Filipe Tomé and I’m 28 years old! I have been playing video games ever since I was a child! The first game I played was Hercules (1997) and the first game that made me pursuit a narrative career was Bioshock Infinite (2013)
Throughout my life, I had multiple experiences with narrative and video games. Ever since I was in High school I dreamed about making video games! My first video game was made in Visual Studios with RPG Maker assets! After I finished High school, I went to a Training Center For Technological Specialization Courses, where I took the Design of Multimedia Products course.
After the course, I started a bachelor’s degree in Digital Games and Media (Leiria, Portugal). In this course, I learned Unity and Unreal and I made some questionable video games! However, in this same course, I managed to get an internship in an indie video game company called Greywolf. In Greywolf, I was a trainee VFX designer and I animated 2.5D Wallpapers for the video game Dawn of Andromeda that was launched on May 4 of 2017.
Going Academic
After my internship, I decided to go further with my studies! I went to a Master’s Degree of Game Design in Covilhã, Portugal. Throughout the 3 years, my interest of Narrative Design went further, and I wrote a Thesis that combines Psychology and Narrative. I was always fascinated with stories and fictional characters. Why do we cry with fictional characters? This fascinated me, and I decided to explore it! My thesis is available on this website, however, the thesis is written in Portuguese!
I also have been a game designer and narrative designer in multiple school projects and game jams! You can explore my games in the section “Video Games Developed”. In 2020, i also started livestreaming on twitch. I talk about narrative and psychology in video games while talking to my chat! It is also on twitch that I have my podcast about narrative!
Open Classes/Workshops
Last but not least, I also conducted an open class and talks in Portugal! I conducted an open class in Leiria and a talk in Lisbon!
I also went to University of Beira Interior in 2021, and I gave a game design workshop for the game design students!