2025 Speakers
Evan Skolnick, Game Writer / Narrative Designer, Independent
With over 30 years of combined story and game development experience at world-class entertainment companies such as Marvel, Activision, Lucasfilm and Telltale, Evan Skolnick brings a unique perspective to narrative experiences in the games we play. A college professor, international speaker, and BAFTA- and D.I.C.E. award-nominated game writer, Skolnick is also the author of Video Game Storytelling: What Every Developer Needs to Know About Narrative Techniques. Game projects to which Skolnick has contributed include Cuphead: Don’t Deal with the Devil, Concrete Genie, The Walking Dead: A New Frontier, Batman: The Enemy Within, Mafia III, Star Wars: Battlefront, and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, among many others.
