My name is Tamar Sandoval and I am the game designer and the founder of this little studio that was born in 2019 with the idea to learn and create a good portfolio. What started as my personal adventure, became the place where 11 developers from around the world work together to transform awesome ideas into awesome videogames.

This web page will be used as a joint portfolio and as my own portfolio, also I will try to create here mi blog as a game designer that I hope maybe will help other game designers. We, as a studio, will use this page jointly with the Itchio page, so please go there and follow us to play our games and see the news!

These are our games, you can play them on Itchio and also see some screenshots, concept art, read about them, and listen to the OSTs from the games

Play it on Itchio!!

Play it on Itchio!!

Play it on Itchio!!

Play it on Itchio!!

Welcome to my portfolio! I am a versatile, creative, and passionate developer that enjoys all aspects of my job. From the research and the earlier documentation, passing through building a GDD or working board; to do concepts, character design, and the narrative of my games. As you can see below, my career started as a writer and evolved from there. I hope you can enjoy the content and maybe serve you as inspiration!

As Game Designer I have a lot of ideas, some I gave to my team to try to develop into games or prototypes. However, because my studio is new and small, many of my designs stay on paper, waiting to be born as fully developed experiences.

Many are just ideas that I note in a notebook, but some ended as GDDs that I wrote to improve my design skills.

Of course, I will let here the GDDs of the finished games that I have. Lately, my team asked me to work using the Trello tool, to be easier for them to follow than a document. So, some of my lasted games don’t have a proper GDD (like a document that you can read and follow), maybe some day I will write them just for fun :D .

Finished Games

These are the pages of the finished games. Inside, you will find the GDD and other cool things, like narrative, concepts, soundtracks, and more!

My Story

Fill My Life With Colors

Death By Pickle

GDDs

GDD Base

This is a GDD with all explanations to help you to write your own GDD for any type of game.

Base GDD

Neon Blood

This is the last GDD that I wrote, and it is my dream game. It’s a large game with a complex system.

Neon Blood

Morrigan’s Story

This is my first «professional» GDD. It’s based on my novel and it has as its base the Far Cry Franchise.

Morrigan’s Story

Jacob’s Story

This GDD is previous to Neon Blood. Both are based on the same story, but at different times and with different mechanics.

Jacob’s Story (before Neon Blood)

Level Desing

Level Design

Photography

Photography

Illustrations

Illustrations

Gas Mask War Stories Concepts

GMW Stories Concepts

My career started in 2005 with my first novel «The Last Book of the Library». Also, in that year I wrote several scripts and mini-stories to try to film some short movies. From there, I’ve never stopped writing.

I do love to write and the narrative aspects of the games are always my favorite. As Game Designer I put a lot of effort into having a good balance between mechanics and narrative, and I love to use the narrative as «an excuse» or reason to put interesting details everywhere. So, I don’t like the «empty spaces», the things that happen «just because». I love to give an explanation (even if is a lazy or fantasy one)  for everything, maybe because I am a curious person myself and I always ask the «why» behind everything.

I am from Spain, so the majority of my work is written in Spanish, however, I am working to translate the work that I think that it’s more relevant. I have a published novel as well on Amazon, also in Spanish.

In the previous section, inside the GDDs you will find also a lot of my work as a writer, both technical and narrative.

I hope that you can enjoy my content!

My Narrative Web (in Spanish)

Narrative (in English)

Narrative for Games

GMW Studio is called after my novel’s name, Gas Mask War. The Endless War, because one of my biggest ambitions is to transform that novel into a series of video games. It’s a big dream, but I like a good challenge!!

The crow into our logo is called Surv and in his honor, we called ourselves crows and the members of the studio gave me the lovely name of «mommy crow».

We are this beautiful, intelligent, and creative family of crows and this is our «nest», our virtual home, a place where we are safe to fight for our dreams.

You already know me, but let me introduce you to my Murder of Crows!

The art from the portraits is by Shoko

Tamar "Mother of Crows" Sandoval

Tamar "Mother of Crows" Sandoval

Director · Game Designer · Writer

Hi! I am The Mother of Crows!

My real name is Tamar and I am the founder of GMWStudio. Also, I am a passionate Game Designer that loves writing and designing characters and worlds.

Pedro "The Corn’s Crow" López

Pedro "The Corn’s Crow" López

2D Artist & Animator - Cinematics Director - Art Director
Lea "The Noisy Crow" Carrizo

Lea "The Noisy Crow" Carrizo

Music and Sound Director - Composer
Fran "The Potato Crow" López

Fran "The Potato Crow" López

Lead Programmer - QA Tester
Mario "The Resuscitator Crow"

Mario "The Resuscitator Crow"

Programmer
Josué "The Rookie Crow" Giménez

Josué "The Rookie Crow" Giménez

Programmer - QA Tester - Social Media Manager
Shoko " The Dinosaur Crow"

Shoko " The Dinosaur Crow"

2D Artist & Animator
Roberto "Monster Crow" Leal

Roberto "Monster Crow" Leal

2D Artist & Animator - Character Designer - Concept Artist
Taco "The Cuty Crow" Jone

Taco "The Cuty Crow" Jone

2D Artist - Emojie Creator - Social Media Artist
Derek "The Little Crow"

Derek "The Little Crow"

2D Artist & Animator
Pablo "Brushie Crow"

Pablo "Brushie Crow"

Concept Artist - 2D Artist

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