Jury Members Reveal: Viditya Voleti, Adrian Sandoval, Matthew Griffin, and Tori Smith
May 26, 2025
Hello all joiners and submitters! We’re ticking down the days until the shortlist reveal, and I’m happy to introduce to you the final members of our jury - the fifteenth, sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth members - Viditya Voleti, Adrian Sandoval, Matthew Griffin, and Tori Smith. For the final time for this year, here are their bios, in their own words:
Viditya Voleti
Viditya Voleti is an award winning game writer, designer, and educator; creator of Bloodbeam Badlands, Space Goblins!, and LONGSWORD. His diverse body of work explores all aspects of play and interaction and he is always excited to make something bad. He’s worked on a diversity of projects and clients across the spectrum of the TTRPG industry from Paizo and Evil Hat to World Champ Games Co and Possum Creek.
https://bsky.app/profile/vidityavoleti.bsky.social
@vidityavoleti everywhere
Adrian Sandoval
Adrian Sandoval is a professional game designer with 15+ years of industry experience. He currently teaches game design, production and history at Drexel University. His book, “World Design for 2D Action-Adventures”, co-authored with Christopher W. Totten, is available on the Routledge store.
https://www.adriansandoval.net
Matthew Griffin
Matt Griffin is a game writer and researcher currently developing an academic book focused on publisher Choice of Games’ community of literary authors who are creating lengthy (some well over a million words!) interactive novels using ChoiceScript, sometimes as their first exposure to writing interactive texts. He is also himself authoring an interactive (horror) novel to explore why we tell (scary) stories to each other, and the imaginative space fostered by the experience of stepping into murky, unknown spaces with a reader. He writes regularly for ChoiceBeat Zine, an indie online zine focused on interactive fiction, visual novel, and odd narrative games space, as well as other articles and papers focused on interactive narrative, additive manufacturing, and biofabrication.. He teaches grad senior thesis in interactive design for the NYU IDM program and an artist- and engineer-centric bioprinting/biomaterials course for NYU ITP. As a longtime conference producer he is co-founder of the digital fabrication educators conference Construct3D, and the Conference Chair for NarraScope 2025 for the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation, PA. He lives in Brooklyn, NY with his lovely novelist wife, and darling infant daughter.
https://bsky.app/profile/mifga.bsky.social
Tori Smith
Tori Smith is a narrative designer, writer, performer, and educator based in NYC. She specializes in designing immersive narrative experiences, developing LARPs and interactive theater pieces. Tori is a game design adjunct professor at the NYU Game Center, Pratt Institute, NYIT, and CUNY City College.
@worldwideblonde everywhere
Thanks Viditya, Adrian, Matt, and Tori!
Talk soon,
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TLDR: Revealing final jury members - Viditya Voleti, Adrian Sandoval, Matthew Griffin, and Tori Smith!