Elizabeth LaPensée, Ph.D. is an award-winning designer, writer, and artist. She was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 2018 and inducted into the Global Women in Games Hall of Fame in 2020. She designed When Rivers Were Trails, a 2D adventure game about land allotment in the 1890s which won the Adaptation Award at IndieCade 2019. She also designed and created art for Thunderbird Strike, a lightning-searing side-scroller game which won Best Digital Media at imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival 2017. Most recently, she is the Lead Writer and World Builder for Twin Suns.
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