Aaron Reed
Procedural Text Expert at Independent Consultant
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAaron Reed is a procedural narrative specialist combining a PhD in Computer Science and an MFA in Digital Arts to design award-winning interactive fiction, games, and storytelling systems. With 12+ years of experience as an indie designer, contractor, and startup co-founder, he has shipped work shown at SXSW, Slamdance, and GaymerX and is a multi-time IndieCade and IGF finalist. He has built generative dialogue and chatbot persona engines for AAA-focused AI projects and research partners like BBN, and helped raise six-figure crowdfunding to publish a book on interactive fiction history. Equally fluent in creative writing and technical narrative systems, he thrives on cross-disciplinary collaboration to prototype novel story-play experiences across digital and tabletop formats. Based in Alameda, CA, he brings academic rigor and practical product experience to projects at the intersection of stories, play, and emergent AI.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of UtahUniversity of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (8)
assembler9
simulation9
climate-change8
reinforcement-learning8
phaser6
ai-framework4
gemini4
compiler4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
galaxykate/pacman
Oct 2013 - Nov 2013
Contributions:18 commits in 19 days
ensemble-engine/ensemble
Oct 2014 - Sep 2017
A rules-based AI framework for social simulation
Contributions:93 commits, 7 pushes, 9 comments in 2 years 11 months
social-simulationreinforcement-learningsimulationai-frameworkrules-based
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