Lindsay Grace

Who is Lindsay Grace?

Lindsay Grace is a video game designer, artist and professor who currently lives in Washington, D.C. he is best known as an academic game designer who employs critical design. In 2013 his game, Wait was inducted in the Games for Change Hall of Fame as one of the five most significant games for change in the last decade. Created in 2009, players must navigate a 3D world that fades away when the player moves, and grows more detailed as they wait. If players fail to move for long, the world also recedes. Other notable games include Big Huggin', a game controlled by a giant stuffed animal that players must hug to meet game goals. Big Huggin' was Kickstarted with notable support from Jane McGonigal and selected for the ACM Siggraph's Aesthetics of Gameplay Show.

Grace has created more than 15 independent games, acting as the sole designer, developer, and artist. He has written articles about this process and supports such activity as one of 8 executive board members organizing the Global Game Jam. He has published 20 academic articles via the Association for Computing Machinery digital library and via several other presses. He also exhibits art internationally.