Nic Junius
Narrative Designer
Reykjavik, Iceland
Summary
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Top SchoolNic Junius is a narrative designer and computational media researcher with 11 years of experience crafting systems that blend theatrical practice, formal acting techniques, and AI-driven character interaction. Currently at CCP Games in Reykjavik, Nic builds approachable, customizable interaction models and interfaces that enable new forms of expressiveness between players and emergent characters. He holds a PhD in Computational Media and dual graduate degrees (MFA and MS) from UC Santa Cruz, where his work married playwriting and lighting design sensibilities with formal computational caricature. Nic’s background as a playwright, lighting designer, and instructor informs a rare combination of storytelling intuition and technical rigor, enabling him to prototype theatrical behaviors as software systems. He is known for translating stagecraft practices into interactive narrative tooling that prioritizes accessibility and performative nuance.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
University of California Santa Cruz
Github Skills (5)
renpy6
python6
six5
degrees4
bullet4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
njunius/Puppitor
Jan 2020 - Feb 2023
A Python game interface and animation library designed to allow players to act out a character using physicality rather than dialogue
Contributions:7 releases, 52 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years
character-creationinterfacepythonrenpystory-telling
Charidan/2sticks4shooting
Jan 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:98 commits, 95 pushes in 8 months
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