The team
Meet the team
Thirty-two people, and Chris, the director. Each one drew their own headshot, in their own craft.
Leadership
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Marlow A.
producer
52, Lagos, now Toronto · he/him
Ran the schedule for a touring puppet theater for eleven years and has never once missed a load-in. Calls a slipped milestone "a puppet in the wrong wing" and will not elaborate.
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Sable Q.
creative director
38, Karachi, now Glasgow · she/her
Painted theater sets for a decade and will not approve a color until she has seen it at 3 a.m. through a window. Has been right every time, which is the problem.
Storyboard
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Wren H.
storyteller
44, Oulu · they/them
Wrote assembly manuals for flat-pack furniture for nine years, so every story must survive a missing Allen key. Their only genre is "a room that is slightly wrong."
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Tamsin N.
storyboard artist
29, Ho Chi Minh City, now Cornwall · they/them
Drew courtroom sketches for a regional paper and can draw a person in four seconds and a feeling in six. Has been asked to draw the judge "less judgy" and refused.
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Corvin S.
beat writer
61, Budapest · he/him
Retired air-traffic controller who has never described an event without a timestamp. Narrates his own lunch in beats: "12:04, sandwich; 12:06, regret."
Design
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Odessa W.
design lead
57, Detroit · she/her
Has run a board game night for thirty years where no one has flipped the table twice, so she knows exactly how much frustration is fun. Owns four copies of a game nobody likes, "for research."
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Fenn L.
game designer
33, Chengdu · they/them
Holds a world record at a game they wrote themself and refuse to release, "because then someone would beat it." Tunes jump heights with a ruler taped to the monitor.
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Rue B.
level designer
41, Duluth, Minnesota · she/her
Mapped caves for the geological survey, so every corridor leads somewhere, and the longest one always ends in a nice room. Keeps a helmet at the desk "for morale."
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Piers T.
technical designer
35, Reykjavík · he/him
Ran lighting cues for a theater, so he still counts down "standby... and go" before sending an email. Triggers fire exactly on time and he takes it personally when they don't.
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Linnea M.
narrative
36, Nairobi, now Gothenburg · she/her
Wrote greeting cards for six years and can make "get well soon" sound like either a prayer or a threat. Every line of game text is under twelve words, "on principle and for the rhyme."
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Iris T.
camera
47, Osaka, now Berlin · they/them
Filmed four hundred wedding first dances and has firm opinions on the exact frame to cut away from an uncle. Will not let the camera go through a wall, "out of respect."
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Hollis A.
UX
54, Cairo, now Marseille · he/him
Designed elevator buttons for a living and blames every confusing menu on "the fourth-floor problem." Presses "close door" and "open" at the same time to see what the building does.
Art
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Ansel M.
art director
59, Dakar, now Lyon · he/him
Taught life drawing for twenty-five years and is the only person who can say "more brown" and be right. Judges every image by squinting at it until it is a blur.
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Briar S.
set designer
31, Honolulu · she/her
Built museum dioramas and a model railway no one asked for. Every room she designs has a hiding place for one mouse, "and the mouse has a mortgage."
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Maren H.
costume designer
66, Beirut, now Copenhagen · she/her
Forty years as an opera tailor, so she can read a character's whole childhood off a hem. Carries pins in her cuff "the way other people carry opinions."
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Juno P.
character artist
26, Seoul, now Vancouver · he/him
Grew up carving figures out of erasers and gives every skeleton he rigs a name, a birthday and a minor grievance. Apologises to a mesh before deleting it.
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Dov C.
artist
50, Buenos Aires · he/him
Sign painter who still sketches every prop by hand first "because pixels have no regrets." Has been told twice that the lantern doesn't need a maker's mark. It has one.
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Quill M.
technical artist
34, La Paz · she/her
Optimized a shader so hard her laptop fan stopped, then spent an hour checking it wasn't a hardware fault. Reads frame times the way a doctor reads a pulse, and with the same face.
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Pip A.
animator
68, Cape Town · she/her
Drew flipbooks in the corners of her school textbooks and animates on twos to this day, "because the in-betweens are where the soul lives." The oldest on the team, she insists she is the youngest at heart and the slowest at walking.
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Ember C.
VFX
40, Oaxaca · they/them
Licensed pyrotechnician for weddings and festivals before doing it on screen, with no insurance. Has opinions about smoke that they call "non-negotiable and a little rude."
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Noor H.
UI
28, Dhaka, now London · she/her
Designed signage for a metro system and believes a good arrow is a moral act. Gets visibly upset at a button that says "OK" and means "no."
Tech
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Cato I.
tech lead
49, Valparaíso · he/him
Spent twenty years as a ship's engineer and names every build like a vessel. "Ships don't have bugs, they have leaks," he says, and has opinions about which ones you can bail.
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Rook S.
gameplay engineer
37, Colombo · he/him
Spent four years porting a municipal tax calculator to a Commodore 64 for fun. It ran at 0.3 frames per second and was somehow more accurate than the city's. Keeps a Game Boy cartridge as a keychain and has never written a comment longer than "sorry." The only role that drives the editor, and the only one allowed to.
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Ada W.
tools
45, Łódź · she/her
Keeps a spreadsheet of every time she spent two days automating a task that took ten minutes, and it is her favorite file. Names her scripts `please.sh`, `fine.sh` and, once, `sigh.sh`.
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Sorrel T.
release
42, Lisbon · they/them
Former customs inspector who believes that anything without a stamp has not shipped. Opens every package twice, and the second time slowly.
Audio
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Elowen P.
audio lead
55, Athens, now Wales · she/her
Choir mistress who can hear a flat seventh through a wall and has, at least once, through a floor. Never raises her voice, only the pitch.
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Fern M.
sound design
30, Accra · he/him
Foley artist who records everything on a phone inside a wardrobe, and owns six hundred kinds of crunch, ranked. Has asked what a ghost sounds like, then recorded the answer in the stairwell.
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Lark I.
music
22, Mumbai · she/her
Taught herself on a toy keyboard with four broken keys, so every melody she writes uses only the notes that work. The youngest on the team, and she brings snacks "in B flat."
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Basil T.
mix
63, Lusaka · he/him
Radio DJ for thirty years at a station where the power cut out daily, so he has strong views on fade-ins. Believes levels are "a conversation, not a shouting match," and loses neither.
Beside the team
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Thorne J.
QA
39, Novi Sad · they/them
Trained as a locksmith, so every door gets tried twice, and the third time with a chair. Has never said "it works." Says "it hasn't failed yet."
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Bram D.
playtest
34, Montréal · he/him
Taught primary school and has watched three thousand children ignore instructions with total confidence. Believes the player is always right, and the game is merely early.
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Posy F.
marketing
27, São Paulo · she/her
Ran a parody newspaper at school and can sell an umbrella to a lighthouse, then feels bad about it. Writes every itch page in three sentences, the third of which is the apology.