Emily Short

Emily Short
Emily Short in 2010
Known forGalatea
Counterfeit Monkey
SpouseGraham Nelson[1][2]
Websiteemshort.blog

Emily Short is an interactive fiction (IF) writer. From 2020 to 2023, she was creative director of Failbetter Games, the studio behind Fallen London and its spinoffs.[3][4]

She is known for her debut game Galatea (2000)[5] and her use of psychologically complex non-player characters (NPCs).[6]

Short has been called "a visionary in the world of text-based games for years,"[7] and is the author of over forty works of IF.[8] She wrote the chapters "Challenges of a Broad Geography" and "NPC Conversation Systems" for the 2011 The IF Theory Reader.[9]

She wrote a regular column on IF for Rock Paper Shotgun.[10]

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  4. ^ "Emily Short | LinkedIn". uk.linkedin.com. Retrieved 2024-05-16.
  5. ^ Ryan, Marie-Laure. (2006). Avatars of story. U of Minnesota Press.
  6. ^ Stuart, Keith (5 Jun 2015). "Lonely planet: the solitude of open-world games when the story is over". The Guardian.
  7. ^ Alderman, Naomi (22 Sep 2014). "The magic of words opens a whole new world of fun". The Guardian.
  8. ^ "Emily Short Member Profile". Interactive Fiction Database. 2022
  9. ^ Kevin Jackson-Mead, J. Robinson Wheeler. "IF Theory Reader", ifarchive.org, March 2011.
  10. ^ Short, Emily (15 June 2016). "Text Adventures For People Who Hate Guessing The Verb". Rock Paper Shotgun. Retrieved 2016-09-06.