Quinn Kybartas
Co-Founder, Technical Director at Studio Imugi
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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Top SchoolQuinn Kybartas is a game-focused technical leader and researcher with 12 years of experience blending interactive storytelling, agent simulation, and AI-driven dialogue systems. As Co-Founder and Technical Director of Studio Imugi, he builds systemic gameplay experiences that merge narrative and emergent behavior. His PhD work at McGill explored physics- and social-force-driven agents and language generation for interactive narrative, and he has shipped practical tooling such as a Unity/C# natural language generation system. Quinn has taught interactive storytelling and contributed to indie and research games at Kitfox and TU Delft, applying drama management, planning algorithms, and procedural narrative in production. He’s adept at turning research into usable game tech—an uncommon mix of academic rigor and hands-on pipeline development. Based in Montreal, he combines deep knowledge of NLP/AI with practical game design to create believable virtual characters and scalable storytelling systems.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Game Design, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.) Game Design at McMaster UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at McGill University
English, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
QuinnKybartas/ReGEN
Mar 2014 - Mar 2014
Contributions:2 commits in 1 day
BenKybartas/tracery
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 months
traceryjavascriptgrammarparsergrammar-generation
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