Summerhill

Role: Head of Operations, Senior Producer, Business Development
Date: March 2020 - Present
Developer: Land & Sea
Platform: Steam (PC, Mac)
Website: https://www.landandsea.games/new-project

Project overview:
Summerhill is a story-driven puzzle-adventure game in which you play as a young shepherd and their dog journeying through a pastoral world. Venture into the mysterious lands that border your home to rescue your lost flock and unearth the secrets of its long-forgotten past.

Summerhill brings together gentle problem solving, fluid herding-based gameplay and striking natural landscapes to tell a timeless coming-of-age folktale.

You can wishlist the game on Steam now.

Responsibilities: 

  • Project and studio management

  • Scoping, budgeting and planning of pre-production and production processes

  • Collating, drafting and presenting pitch materials to external partners

  • Key team member hiring, onboarding and management

  • Design process support and management

  • Creation and release of key marketing assets, and press/social media

  • Market and competitor analysis


I joined Land & Sea as the 3rd team member in March of 2020 with the brief of working toward the pre-production and production phases of this unannounced project alongside the studio/creative director.

Since that time I have been instrumental in the planning and execution of the development of a number of internal prototypes and demonstrations. Our work on this project has been taking place alongside the release and support of Alto’s Adventure/Odyssey — Remastered titles on Apple Arcade, which has been a really interesting and rewarding challenge to navigate as a producer of a studio of 4 core team members for the majority of this time. During this period we have largely focused on the creation of a number of powerful development and release tools, as well as build manangement and testing processes to increase the efficiancy of our small team, allowing us to work across and release multiple projects at once.

I am very excited to be continuing my work on Summerhill with the Land & Sea team into the future and look forward to sharing more details when the time comes.