Alastor Guzman
Hello! My name is Alastor Guzman, and I am an award-winning writer and game designer with experience in writing, designing, and implementing content for tabletop RPGs, interactive novels, wargames, and board games.
My Dungeons & Dragons adventure in Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel was a finalist for the Nebula Award for Best Game Writing, nominated for the Diana Jones Award for Excellence in Gaming, and won the ENNIE Award for Best Adventure.
I'm interested in narrative design for video games, cultural consultancy, and systems design for TTRPGs.
You can reach me at [email protected].
Game writing
Journeys Through The Radiant Citadel
I wrote the Adventure Trail of Destruction, the Tletepec region, and the Tlexolotl monster. The core of the location is a region where disaster can strike at any time and how people cooperate with each other in times of need.
Interactive novels
Xeno Apoptosis, a short interactive space horror story I created to explore the Ink tool. The story features branching dialogue and a layered narrative structure; the sample provided takes place in the medbay after a key exchange with the head scientist. The first chapter is complete and available to play on my Itch page.
Power Rangers Through the Shattered Grid
I contributed to the Power Rangers: Through the Shattered Grid sourcebook, writing enemy stat blocks, Megazord mechanics, and rules content based on their comic appearances.
Tales from the Gods.
Tales from the Gods is a solo journaling rpg where you play as a god. The game presents different prompts that the player must extend and then face the consequences are new gods are created and their saga changes. I designed the adaptation from Thousand Year old Vampire and wrote part of the prompts.
Micro Videogames
Last Haven
Last Haven is an upcoming Rogue-lite Citybuilder, where you must build a city and survive natural disasters before the world collapses. I wrote the dialogues for the tutorial, the story, the trailer, and created the math system for the resources.
The Mystery Of Ambrose Manor
I designed this project for the Code Coven 2023, Thunder Cohort. It was the final project of the course and I worked alongside Miya A, and Anna Mortimer. My work was designing the clues, writing the story, the logic of the clue system, coding the bat behavior, and character controls.
System Design
Tezca Sentai
Tezca Sentai is a TTRPG where you play as characters in a serialized tv. The system I designed runs in two loops, one is a per-episode adventure where the players play through scenes during the narrative, and the other is the season loop, where the Tezcas must thwart the plan of the evil overlord.
Full list of credits
Awards and other works
Nebula finalist for Best Game Writing 2023.
Diana Jones Award for Excellence in gaming nominee, 2023
Ennie Silver for Best Adventure for Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, 2023
Cultural and narrative consultancy for Magic the Gathering,Mayan Curse, Ofrenda, and The Finals.
Ennie nominated for Best adversary and Best setting for The Maze. 2021
IGDN Metatopia 2018 sponsorship.
Writing credits
• Xeno Apoptosis: an interactive short fiction, personal, 2025
• A Kafkian Thesis, personal, 2025
• Power Rangers Roleplaying Game Through the Shattered Grid, Renegade Games, 2024
• Pathfinder Lost Omens: Divine Mysteries, Paizo, 2024
• Tales from the Gods, Axo stories, 2024
• Outlaws of Thunder Junction, Magic the Gathering, 2024
• Mystery of Ambrose Manor microgame, 2023
• Lost Caverns of Ixalan, Magic the Gathering , 2023
• Last Haven prototype, 2023
• Masks of Power, Axo stories, 2023
• Journeys Through the Radiant Citadel, Dungeons & Dragons, 2022.
• Nebula wargame rules, CastnPlay, 2022
• Tezca Sentai, Axo stories, 2021
• Knights of Last Wall, Paizo, 2021
• Eldritch Century Draco System, 2021
• Great Wyrms of Drakha, Draco studios, 2021.
• The Maze, Axo stories, 2020
• Yig timeline for Fate of Cthulhu, Evil Hat,: 2021.
• Shifting Axolotls for More Kittens, released : 2020.
• Logos Myr for Bleak Spirit, 2019.
• Great Wyrms of Dhraka, Draco studios, 2019.
• Parade of the Dead for Demigods, 2019.