the production team members
Elizabeth Ballou, editor in chief
Elizabeth is a freelance writer and game designer who currently writes for Studio Drydock. Her games journalism has appeared on Kotaku, VICE, and Fanbyte. She designed Piloting Red Rover, an educational game for the American Museum of Natural History, and is working on A Thousand Cuts, a narrative texting game about sexual assault on college campuses.
Mary Georgescu, layout designer
Mary is a first-generation American-Romanian narrative game designer; currently, she is a Game Designer at Exploding Kittens. She founded Haiduc Studio and is currently self-publishing two zine RPGS, The Great Bork Team and Dream World Mercenaries. Her work explores the intersection of digital and analog games and everything in between. She can be found at @marymakesgames on Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitch.
Kyle Daileda, publicity/marketing
Kyle is a freelance publicity and marketing specialist who has worked in social media for the past six years. They are currently working on a masters in publishing at NYU and write comics on the side. Their favorite color is yellow and they love Azula like no other.
Chris Kindred, art director
Chris Kindred is a writer and illustrator turned game designer whose work focuses on the intersection of lived experience, speculative fiction, and imagined cultures.
Yuxin Gao, co-editor
Yuxin is a game developer and producer from China. Her work explores the space between journalism and video games. In 2019, she curated Year of the Pig, a major exhibition at Babycastles gallery in NYC. In 2020, she produced and directed the interactive documentary Out For Delivery. Her work has been exhibited at IndieCade, IndieCade East, Boston Festival of Indie Games, MAGFest, Play NYC, and more.
Lillyan Ling, assistant editor/copy editor
Lillyan is a freelance games and digital art producer with a background in editing and music. She’s currently making games with Common Opera, producing for Pariah Interactive, and creating further nonsense projects with others.