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March 1-5, 2027
Moscone CenterSan Francisco, CA

Speakers

Find a full list of this year's GDC Festival of Gaming speakers here.

Jennifer Allaway, Senior Writer & Narrative Designer, Independent

Jennifer Allaway is a renaissance woman of interactive narrative. In 11+ years, she's written and designed for games in AAA, indie, mobile, and tabletop. Outside of her bread and butter career, she's also worked on escape rooms, LARPs, a knitting game, even a museum exhibit. Her experience may be broad, but her success comes from her specific narrative techniques. She practices sociological storytelling to use the world and societal systems to make every scene matter. Highly emotional scenes are her specialty, along with heart-wrenching relationships and romance. All in all, she makes games with big hearts.

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