Keiji Inafune : Mega Man, Soul Sacrifice, Yaiba: Ninja Gaiden Z

Andrew Schartmann is a faculty member at the New England Conservatory, USA. In 2017, he was named Audio Director of Yale's Play4Real lab, where he produces sound and music for virtual-reality video games. He taught previously at McGill and Yale, USA, and currently serves as the Associate Editor of DSCH Journal.

Carly A. Kocurek is Assistant Professor of Digital Humanities and Media Studies at Illinois Institute of Technology, US, and researches the history and cultural practices of video gaming in the United States, and teaches courses on game studies, media studies, and digital humanities. Her current manuscript chronicles the development of early video game culture and gamer identity around the video game arcade during the 1970s and 1980s.

Jennifer deWinter is Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Interactive Media and Game Development at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, US, where she researches computer production and global circulation. deWinter is particularly interested in the cross media vampirism of entertainment media, with a focus on computer games and Japan. She is currently co-editing a book on the intersection of technical communication and games and is working with Steven Conway on a book about video game policy.