Porpentine (game designer)

Porpentine Charity Heartscape
NationalityAmerican
Occupation(s)Video game designer, artist
Years active2012–present

Porpentine Charity Heartscape (born 1987)[1] is a video game designer, new media artist, writer and curator based in Oakland, California.[2] They are primarily a developer of hypertext games and interactive fiction mainly built using Twine.[3] They have been awarded a Creative Capital grant, a Rhizome.org commission, the Prix Net Art, and a Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab Fellowship.[4][5][6][7] Their work was included in the 2017 Whitney Biennial.[8] They were an editor for freeindiegam.es, a curated collection of free, independently produced games.[9] They were a columnist for online PC gaming magazine Rock, Paper, Shotgun.[10]

  1. ^ "Artist Profile" (PDF). ICAVCU.org. Institute for Contemporary Art. April 21, 2018. Retrieved January 8, 2021.
  2. ^ Kazimarki, Donna (November 22, 2016), "Porpentine Charity Heartscape's New Novella is Science-Fiction About Living with Trauma, and Slime Sex", East Bay Express
  3. ^ Ellison, Cara (April 3, 2013). "Hypersexed Hypertext: Porpentine and the Twine text game revolution". PCGamer. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  4. ^ "Creative Capital – Investing in Artists who Shape the Future". creative-capital.org. Archived from the original on March 15, 2017. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  5. ^ "Announcing Rhizome's Fall 2015 Program". Rhizome. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  6. ^ "Rhizome Names Three Winners of Third Prix Net Art Award | ARTnews". www.artnews.com. February 16, 2017. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  7. ^ "Sundance Institute's New Frontier Story Lab Explores the Future with Six Creative Teams and Projects". www.sundance.org. Retrieved March 14, 2017.
  8. ^ "Whitney Biennial 2017". Whitney Museum of American Art. Retrieved March 28, 2017.
  9. ^ Ellison, Cara (April 10, 2013). "Anna Anthropy and the Twine Revolution". The Guardian. London. Retrieved May 15, 2013.
  10. ^ "Live Free, Play Hard #1". Rock, Paper, Shotgun. August 12, 2012. Retrieved May 15, 2013.