Alexis Kennedy is a writer, game designer and entrepreneur who’s been making innovative, evocative narrative video games for a decade. He’s currently co-founder (with Lottie Bevan) of Weather Factory, a boutique game development studio specialising in narrative experiments.. Before that he founded Failbetter Games, where he created Fallen London. and Sunless Sea – both critical and commercial successes that have continued to influence the industry. After growing Failbetter from a bedroom startup to a thriving studio, he left in 2016 to get back to more experimental work. He took a ronin year to do guest-writing gigs for big names like BioWare, Telltale and Paradox, and then founded Weather Factory.. Weather Factory's current project is the multiple-award-winning (and double BAFTA-nominated) Cultist Simulator, and their next announced one is BOOK OF HOURS, a combatless game of loneliness and satisfaction set in an occult library.. Alexis speaks internationally on narrative, on game design, and on their overlaps.
