MuhammedEnesSarıoğlu

Game designerNarrative & systemsİstinye University · Istanbul

Works

Derya Akın ile OHA Diyorum

Narrative designRen'Py visual novel2024Team of 3

Interrogate suspects, pick up clues from a TV crime show, and solve the murder.

two threadsThe questions you ask in interrogations decide which version of the next TV episode airs. Each episode reveals clues you missed.

pick fourPick four clues on the board. The right four lead to an arrest. Four suspects, four endings.

gibberish voicesCharacters speak in wordless, made-up sounds. I directed the game's gibberish voice acting emotion by emotion.

My part

Story + all dialogueCharactersBranching structureClue + accusation logicPhoto directionVoice direction

Detective notebook filled with handwritten clues — Clues are written into the notebook as you find them

Evidence photo of the murder weapon with a typed note — Evidence photos and their notes lead to findings

Evidence photo of the shed with a typed note — Some photos rule a lead out

Suspect records screen — Suspect records

DERYA AKIN emotion: neutralMrs. Şahin, can you tell us what you did on the day of the murder?

NAZİFE emotion: neutralHe hollered at me ’cause I weren’t goin’ with him. So I hollered back. We ate. He left. I done the dishes. The grease wouldn’t come off the pan, so I scrubbed it good.

NAZİFE emotion: sadIt was Necip callin’. Said come to the field, right now. So I went.

+ CLUENecip reported the body.

Sample dialogue (episode 1)

Elastik Ayhan

Game & systems designUnity2D vertical platformer2026Team of 3

A detective with stretching arms and legs climbs Istanbul's apartment blocks to stop Kötü İbo, a seagull who rules the city.

name = mechanicAyhan's punches and kicks stretch across the screen.

theme → systemsHealth is shown as tea glasses. Boss 1 teleports between simit carts. Boss 2 throws seagulls.

running jokeKötü İbo only squawks. Ayhan answers in seagull, and the simit taken from boss 1 finishes boss 2.

My part

Concept + storyCharacters + enemiesMechanics + bossesAll dialogueAll Unity integrationPixel art support

Ayhan's stretched punch hits the final boss — A stretched punch at Kötü İbo

The Simitçi boss among simit carts — Boss 1, the carts are his teleport points

Full screen with the tea-glass health bar — Tea glasses are health, faces are lives

Kötü İbo squawks — “Gurk gurr… Gu-guk, guk.”

Dialogue: What? Speak normally. — “What? Speak normally.”

Photo cutscene: a simit is forced into Kötü İbo's mouth — The ending, a pixelated photo cutscene

The Cistern

Level designCounter-Strike 2 · Hammer2025Team of 4

A Counter-Strike 2 map. One bomb site is in a cistern, the other on the Istanbul streets right above it.

the ideaA cistern, to fit the brief of water and the Middle East. We visited one for reference and researched the space.

3 layersStreet, connecting passages, cistern. A familiar Long, Short and Mid flow, stacked vertically.

stock assets onlyCS2 has no Istanbul asset set. The team built everything from the game's own models and textures.

My part

Idea + researchFull level layoutSites, spawns + routesLayer plans

Lit stone columns inside the cistern — B site, under the street

Cistern and passages plan — Cistern (red), passages (pink)

All layers overlaid — All three layers together

Grey blockout in Hammer — Blockout in Hammer

Partly dressed blockout — Partly dressed

Stairs going down from the street — Stairs down to the cistern

Other work

Game analysisUI designModular pixel artSolo projects

Collage poster analysing the Arc Raiders metro — Game analysis · Solo

Isometric pixel-art base built from modular pieces — Modular asset kit · Pixel art · Solo

Driver's dashboard view — UI design · Solo

About

Muhammed Enes Sarıoğlu, black-and-white portrait

I'm a final-year Digital Game Design student at İstinye University. In game design I'm most drawn to narrative and systems. I like writing characters and dialogue, and building the rules that hold them together.

I started with dubbing and diction training in high school, then trained in theatre, and I'm still actively on stage today.

Theatre and games have been the two constants in my life for years. On stage or in a game, I love telling stories.

Education: İstinye University · Digital Game Design · 2022-2027
Theatre: Federal Film Akademi · Dubbing and Diction 2018, Theatre 2019 · University Theatre Club
Tools: Unity · Ren'Py · Twine · Aseprite · After Effects
Languages: Turkish (Native) · English (B1-B2)