Anne Toole is a writer and designer who focuses on bringing fun, meaningful, and relevant content to games. Her credits include the MMO WIZARD 101 and THE WITCHER, an RPG which earned her a Writers Guild nomination. Anne started in games as the first Head Writer for the MMO STARGATE WORLDS after a stint on NBC serial DAYS OF OUR LIVES. Since then, she has written games for all major platforms and is currently finishing a Facebook game. She has spoken about games for the inaugural Nokia OpenLab 2008 as well as at the LOGIN Game Conference, South by Southwest and Comic-con International. She contributed chapters to two IGDA books, Professional Techniques for Video Game Writing and Writing for Video Game Genres, and served as the Mentorship Chair for the Women in Games SIG. A citizen of the EU as well as the US, Anne holds a degree in Archaeology from Harvard.
Appearing:
Conference Day 1: New Horizons in Social Gaming - Tuesday 6th December
14.50
Opponent: Successful social games must be simple by design, specialising in addictive content and basic, short-term game play.