dani wright | she/they | 26 | game designer

🧛 lesbian vampire expert

👩‍🎓 queer gothic games scholar

👩🏻‍🏫 game design lecturer @ UCSC

🎓 BA Art & Design: Games & Playable Media @ UCSC

🎓 MFA Digital Art & New Media: Experimental Play @ UCSC

✉️ scareoset@gmail.com

i am a 26 year old game designer, games scholar, and games educator living and working in the bay area. i have over a decade of experience with computer sciences, graphic design, and game development and have been teaching these topics to high school and college students since earning my MFA in 2022.

i make interactive media art that investigates queerness, identity, community, and power. pedagogically, i aim to make these topics as accessible as possible to as broad an audience as possible.

i genuinely do not know how i got here. i started studying and making games and have simply followed my curiosity and instincts down a winding path that led through graduate school and into academia and education.

i am painfully aware of the barriers that my students must overcome and try to do everything i can to help them succeed. this is the most important part of my teaching practice and i cannot fathom any other approach to this important responsibility.