Melanie Dickinson
Self Employed
Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMelanie Dickinson is a Freelance Technical Designer with 11 years blending narrative craft, systems design, and tooling to create stories that respond meaningfully to player action. She specializes in systemic and emergent narrative—writing dialogue, building authoring tools, and implementing content so characters and storylines evolve with gameplay. Her background includes shipping a storylet-driven roguelite and designing a recombinative, fully voice-acted generative dialog system for Borderlands: Echovision, plus authoring tools that streamlined writing-to-voice pipelines. Previously she led PCG and personalization research at Zynga and architected live design tools still used in production. Trained as a PhD computational media researcher and a BS in computer science, she thrives at the intersection of research, production, and cross-discipline collaboration. She enjoys turning complex design problems into playful, accessible tools—recently prototyping a kid-friendly game creation tool as part of her freelance work.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (17)
simulation9
assembler8
react-wrapper7
ai-framework7
json-editor7
validate6
phaser6
procedural-generation5
javascript5
json5
internet4
ai4
compiler4
parser3
datalog2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ItsProbablyFine/WAWLT
Mar 2020 - Nov 2020
Why Are We Like This?: An AI-based storytelling game about misunderstandings (WIP)
Contributions:39 commits, 34 pushes, 1 comment in 8 months
ai
LudoNarrative/GeminiStage
Jan 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:1 release, 12 commits, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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