The Work of Kyle Emmerson

Narrative Design · Photography · Editorial · Film · Broadcast Systems

Kyle Emmerson

Narrative Architect & Creative Director

I build worlds, systems, and stories — from tactical RPG narrative design to editorial production, gothic photography to web development. Based in Ladysmith, BC. Available for freelance and contract work.

 

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Who I Am

A Few Disciplines. One Through-Line.

Third-year Media Studies student at Vancouver Island University, Audio/Visual Editor and Script Editor for Portal Magazine, and the founder of RavensTale Creative — an independent photography and content studio with an alternative gothic focus.

My work lives at the intersection of story and system. Whether I’m designing dialogue architecture for a tactical RPG, editing a literary journal, or building a Shopify storefront, I bring the same instinct: find the structure beneath the surface.

Narrative Design

Editorial & Publishing

Film & Media

Web Development

Photography

Creative Direction

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Selected Work

Portfolio

Ostara, a celebration of renewal. A light to drive the darkness back for another season, and the signal of the oncoming bounty of nature.
A worldbuilding and narrative design project exploring what happens when modern psychological realism collides with a functioning magical society — and neither side comes out unchanged.
A fully custom, production-grade live stream experience built for Twitch. The Archive is a modular overlay ecosystem that transforms viewer engagement data into a living, reactive broadcast environment — built entirely from scratch using HTML/CSS/JavaScript, Streamer.bot automation, and OBS Studio.
Linen and light, whispers and water. Two hearts unguarded by the lake’s quiet mirror. A moment suspended between innocence and longing.
She drifts between grief and omen—tattooed, pierced, and unrepentant. A vision drowned in prophecy, where Hamlet’s sorrow meets Macbeth’s curse. Lifeless eyes fixed on the moon, as if it might answer. Witch. Muse. Tragedy. She sinks, but not without leaving ripples.

Long-Form Project

Currently Building

Transmedia Universe

The Obscura Veil

The Obscura Veil is a multiversal storytelling project that connects the individual worlds, stories and narratives created by Kyle Emmerson.

Riftlight

Aetherbridge

Sol: Ruin

The Archive

Shimmer