Game & Narrative Designer Founded Action Fiction in 2018 Co-Creator, Monsters of Murka series Lead Writer, Cthulhu Dreamt Tabletop Role-playing Game Narrative Designer: Coromon: Rogue Planet (TRAGSoft Games) Unannounced Game (TRAGSoft Games) Freelance: Assistant Instructor, The Art of Writing for Video Games (Classpert) Writer, The Red Opera (Storyteller’s Forge) Writer, The Black Ballad (Storyteller’s Forge)

Gwen in a Character Concept Artist specializing in creature design and is based in Massachusetts. She's worked on World of Warcraft and Spellbreak, and has been working on video games since 2019

I am a concept artist from Ohio working in the games industry! I have been working in the industry since 2015, starting off as a freelance pixel artist on GaiaOnline. I have worked on games such as Spellbreak, Smite, Paladins, Rogue Company, and Icons: Combat Arena. Currently, I am a Character Concept Artist on World of Warcraft working for Blizzard Entertainment and I vend in convention artist alleys under my small business LOKIIart. I love gaming, the Cleveland Guardians, and my dog Odin.

Josh is a designer and artist with work centered on video games and natural systems. After working in architecture for six years, working on performing-arts centers, public libraries, and private residences, he pivoted toward interactive media to explore how ecological thinking can enrich video game worlds. Nature has been the consistent thread throughout his creative practice. His architecture projects always featured light wells with plants. His artwork focuses so intensely on natural subjects that horizon lines rarely appear, as if he's solely examining the ground. Now pursuing his MFA in Design, he continues integrating nature into human experience through technology. He works fluidly across interaction, experience, and new-media design, equally comfortable prototyping mixed-reality installations and programming complex systems. This systems-oriented mindset shapes his approach to video games, which he views as powerful spaces for experimenting with social relationships through the seamless integration of narrative, visuals, audio, and interaction. Josh's current thesis research focuses on developing methods that allow digital natural environments to behave as active agents through emergent systems, creating a methodology for bringing more life to natural environments in games so they can function as actors rather than backdrops. His work contributes to an emerging field examining how digital spaces reflect the complexity of living systems. When not designing, Josh can be found working on video game prototypes, taking his dog to the park, or getting carried away in the garden.

I am a youtuber who sometimes streams, have my own personal channel called EntertainmentLivesOn for personal videos and have a group channel about reviewing oscar movies called Best Pics. I have spoke at GDEX for the last two years and love the event and hope for it to be a 3rd year!