[1] As a PhD student, she conducted research for the game lab at the Carnegie Mellon Human-Computer Interaction Institute, and was advised by Jessica Hammer.
[3] She was the narrative designer for the 2020 augmented reality (AR) game, HoloVista,[4] which she described as "a strange ode to post-modernism and Western capitalism, bathed in vaporwave-y aesthetics.
[9][10] In July, 2023, it was announced that Beltrán would become the studio director for a new AAA studio, Dawon Entertainment, based in Bangalore, India, "building culturally focused games by Indian developers for Indian players, embracing India's captivating folklore, art, music, and cutting-edge technology sector.
[12] Beltrán wrote and designed the game with Marissa Kelly and Sarah Richardson, based on the Bluebeard fairy tale.
[17] In a review for Dread Central, Rachel Beck writes, "The story itself has the elegant simplicity of a fairytale," and it "is an explicitly feminine horror piece, and at its heart it's a game about systemic social and physical violence towards women.