SJML

My name is Shane Liesegang.

I'm a game designer for Bethesda Game Studios. In the past I've worked at Electronic Arts Los Angeles and ever so briefly at Walt Disney Imagineering.

I went to The University of Virginia for undergrad and Carnegie Mellon University for grad school.

Outside of my professional work, I do some random projects like the Angel prototyping engine, a Firefox extension called Morning Coffee, and an odd website called "I started designing games..."

As a game designer, my interests include:

procedural narrative
emotional gameplay systems
minority representation in games (particularly relating to gender and sexuality)
cooperative gameplay
writing
low-level prototyping
development tools

I don't generally like getting emails from recruiters or spambots.

However, I love to receive emails about: games (especially any of the topics listed above), breaking into the games industry, burritos, the Jacksonville Jaguars, the NFL in general, typography, computer science education, film scores, the history of the American Revolution, hobbyist electronics, karaoke, animated Disney films of the 90's, Scotch, irrational travel, U2, the Polyphonic Spree, Stephen Sondheim, hiking, and camping. If you need to get in touch with me about any of these subjects, my email address is my last name at a popular search-engine company's webmail service.

I have a blog in which I rarely write. I tweet @OptimistPanda far more than I should.

The rest of my website is down pending re-org, re-birth, re-creation, etc. In the meanwhile, please enjoy this hedgehog holding a raspberry.