
| Erin Hoffman Design Manager Berkeley, CA Writer and Game Designer
Fiction author and contract writing and design consultant; currently full-time Lead Designer for HumaNature Studios (not the Nexon one that died -- name coincidence) in Berkeley, CA working in long-term partnership on youth-focused MMOs for Dreamworks. Eight years' experience in the games industry. Focus on storytelling, world building, and programmer-artist-licensor-publisher translation and peacekeeping; variety of skills including Photoshop, Illustrator, programming (light), scripting, databases, web design, music composition and arrangement, sound formatting. Always in search of tasty tasty learning opportunities. I recently completed editing an essay collection with Erik Bethke called _Settlers of the New Virtual Worlds_. If you're interested in the massive online space and its implications in the lives of modern and future gamers, check it out. We have top-level contributors including Julian Dibbell, Raph Koster, Sean F. Kane, and more. Go to www.bettereula.com for more details, and www.bettereula.com/wp/settlers for links to advance praise for the BetterEULA Project and links to the book on Amazon.
For further information, please see my website, http://www.philomathgames.com . Nextcat has a kind of weird way of listing credits that would make my full profile too bloated -- for a full CV (at least when I can manage to update it), see this one on my website. Specialties: Design, writing, copyediting, editing, 3D, web design, image editing, documentation, massively multiplayer online games, world building, culture design, online communities, word of mouth marketing, kids' games, HR, focus group testing.
PROFESSIONAL INFO
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Credits:
| "Osteometry"
(Poem - Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine)
2009 "Stormchaser, Stormshaper" - SS
(Beneath Ceaseless Skies)
2009 PuzzleSmash: Book of Secrets
(Designer/Producer)
2008 "Whatever Shall Grow There, Dear" - SS
(Lone Star Stories)
2008 "Root and Vein" - SS
(Clockwork Phoenix)
2008 "The Substitute"
(Poem - Not One of Us)
2007 GoPets: Vacation Island DS
(Designer)
2007 "Black Noise"
(Poem - Antimuse)
2007 Cabbage Patch Kids: Patch Puppy Rescue
(Design)
2006 "The Bearer"
(SS - Deep Magic)
2006 GoPets
(Design & Community)
2005 Shadowbane: The Lost Kingdom
(Design Liaison)
2004 "The Unicorn's Laugh"
(SS - Fantasy Readers Wanted: Apply Within!)
2003 Black9
(Assoc. Design)
2003 "Shade of the Heart"
(SS - Enchanted Realms II)
2002 "Song of the Spirit"
(SS - Enchanted Realms I)
2000
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