Jesse Vigil

Jesse Vigil is a professional writer, game designer, filmmaker, entrepreneur, and co-founder of Psychic Bunny, and the gone-but-not-forgotten indie games label Codename.

Currently, he is the Director of a shadowy Alternate Reality Game at the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts that would be known as Reality Ends Here - if it actually existed, which it of course does not. The rest of the time Jesse teaches and is a Research Associate at the Game Innovation Lab.

And he makes stuff. Lots and lots of stuff.

Jesse's credits range from critically-acclaimed web television to award-winning impact games to experimental interactive projects and passive/active media hybrids like the interactive comics manifesto Re:Active to QUALIA, an interactive murder mystery that takes place in 360 degrees.

Jesse is the author of the Awesome Society series for middle readers, and a soon-to-be published YA horror novel.

Jesse's newest game is the audio adventure game FREEQ, which features over two hours of original radio drama and a highly-reactive story engine that lets players play havoc with a telephone switchboard to save the future.

Despite being born and raised in the American Southwest and having a certain affection for lawlessness, Jesse was disappointed to learn he was not named after noted gunman and outlaw Jesse James.

Don't ask why, but a degree in Cinema-Television production at USC seemed like a good way to compensate for that. Jesse's subsequent MFA in Interactive Media and work designing video games, on the other hand, should probably be interpreted as Jesse's way of expressing his dismay that Jedi Knight, Caped Vigilante, and Ninja Turtle are not apparently careers that you can actual