Preparing students for a career in interactive narrative and video games in a unique and rigorous studio environment. Champlain’s philosophy is to get students designing and working together in a professional way as soon as possible, to better prepare them to work on teams in the working world. Teaching is an absolute pleasure; the industry is fortunate to have these new, skilled and talented devs coming in.As an interactive narrative professor I teach all aspects of narrative from start to finish; world, character, dialogue, choice, and how to collaborate. In 2022 I wrote the new Interactive Narrative major and will step into the role of its Program Director in Fall 2023.

Founded a multimedia company with subsidiaries in virtual events, games, entertainment and small business consulting. Past projects include Fiberworld 2020 and consulting for the Vermont ACCD with small businesses affected by COVID-19. Current projects include a user-owned entertainment collective and mixed media personal development adventures.

Built a hand-dyed fiber business from the ground up, from a few friendly skeins of yarn between friends to its current state, with online retail, wholesale and show and festival customer base continuing to grow.- Sole dyer and designer- Self-rep yarns to retail store customers throughout New England- Expand business presence at shows, markets and festivals- Engage high level designers for exclusive knit and crochet wear patterns - Continually update yarn bases, design seasonal colorways

Founded a nonprofit studio to support underrepresented game developers. In the first two years alone, Rad Magpie ran two successful summer studios mentoring college game developers, collaborated with Girls Make Games to bring game development skills to young developers in low income communities, created a mobile fantasy game set in Sri Lanka, and provided work and internship opportunities for countless developers from underrepresented groups.

● Developed social game content in the world of George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series.● Wrote compelling quests that included both canon and created characters.● Collaborated with other writers to create a consistent, rich world.● Created original characters, places and situations that fit the canon world but also made playerexperience unique.

● Developed characters, dialogue and zone stories that were often praised as the most captivatingand coherent in-game writing to date.● Revised existing scripted scenes to be shorter and punchier.● Developed a new “less is more” scene model that was used studio-wide.● Collaborated with designers to develop content that had strong, simple storylines suited to MMOs.● Wrote and game dialogue that often caused laughter, spit-takes and genuine enjoyment in reviews.*Note: I was with 38 Studios until the studio folded in May of 2012.

● Content design ranging from implementing missions to designing dungeons to writing in-gamebooks and dialogue.● Worked within a popular IP, creating original material while being faithful to prior games.● Collaborated with a specialized team to develop all dungeon content for the game.● Wrote story “pitch” content, to sell story and design ideas internally to management.