Emily Short

Emily Short is an interactive fiction (IF) writer and creative director of Failbetter Games, the studio behind Fallen London and its spinoffs.

She is known for her debut game Galatea (2000) and her use of psychologically complex non-player characters (NPCs).

Short has been called "a visionary in the world of text-based games for years," and is the author of over forty works of IF. She wrote the chapters "Challenges of a Broad Geography" and "NPC Conversation Systems" for the 2011 The IF Theory Reader.

She wrote a regular column on IF for Rock Paper Shotgun.