Current PositionsFounder and lead developer/writer, Dreaming Methods (immersive games studio). Digital Director for UK arts/media organisation One to One Development Trust. Lead Developer, Inanimate Alice. Designer/coder for the Orient Foundation for Arts and Culture.AwardsWinner Digital Northants Champion - 'Streets of Change' VR 2024Winner 'Most Innovative Use of Technology' Award, Game Republic, 2023Winner Los Angeles Film Awards 'Best VR' for The Abandoned Library 2023Winner 'Climate Award' - Culture, Health and Wellbeing Alliance for Our Earth Your Choice 2022Winner 'Outstanding Business 2021' - Excellence in Business Awards, Wakefield Winner 'Digital/technology Development Award 2021' - Excellence in Business Awards, Wakefield Winner of The Space Open Call competition Winner of Tumblr International Prize for Digital ArtWinner 'Best Experimental Game' Dundee Game Design Awards for 'All the Delicate Duplicates' Winner 'Best Overall Game' at the Game City Festival for 'All the Delicate Duplicates'Winner (2nd place) 'Robert Coover Award for a Work of Electronic Literature' (twice!)ExperienceUnity Developer (14 years)Creation of immersive stories (over 25 years). Many works exhibited internationallyGame, application, XR and WebGL development (18 years)Website and web application design and database architecture (25 years)Motion graphics and special effects for films and new media (25 years, After Effects)Short fiction writer (traditional and new media for over 25 years)Judge, speaker and website developer for the New Media Writing Prize 2010-2024 and ongoingTalks and PresentationsLeeds Institute for Data Analytics and the Centre for Immersive Technologies 2024Streets of Change, Merged Futures @ Northampton University 2024The Abandoned Library @ MIX Conference, The British Library 2023Digital Fiction Curios @ International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling 2021New Media Writing Prize Awards @ Bournemouth University 2020Digital Conversations @ The British Library 2019Digital Fiction Curios @ Electronic Literature Organisation Conference, Cork 2019Immersive Storytelling @ Manchester Science Festival 2017Inanimate Alice @ Electronic Literature Organisation Conference, Porto, Portugal 2017WALLPAPER: Uncovering Digital Fiction with Judi Alston @ Oslo Digital Poetry and Film Festival, Norway 2017