MA, Game Design — University of the Arts London (2021). MA dissertation examined branching, narrative illusion, and the conditions under which player choice produces genuinely emergent story — the same question this research approaches from the agent architecture side. Six years of production system-building since graduation, all converging on the same intellectual problem. Author of Under The Cherry Blossoms (2024), a published novel.

The research question did not come from a literature review. It came from an idea in 2018, developed through an MA at UAL, and then six years of building systems that kept implementing the same concepts without a formal research frame. The Zombita platform — built in production before this proposal was written — implements the core research variables as working infrastructure. The proposal is the formal version of what the systems already do.