MARINA KITTAKA

Marina Ayano Kittaka is a Japanese American trans woman and multi-disciplinary artist working primarily as an independent video game developer. With creative partner Melos Han-Tani, she has created games such as Even the Ocean, IGF grand-prize nominee Anodyne 2: Return to Dust, and Sephonie, which follows the story of 3 shipwrecked researchers of Taiwanese descent. She is the author of the influential essay Divest from the Video Games Industry! and creator of the scrappy HTML blogging software Zonelets. Her blog and links can be found at marinakittaka.com