Alex Mitchell

Alex Mitchell is a senior lecturer in the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore. His work explores various aspects of play and storytelling. He has a B.Sc. and an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Toronto, and holds a PhD in Integrative Sciences and Engineering from the National University of Singapore. He co-edited The Authoring Problem: Challenges in Supporting Authoring of Interactive Digital Narratives, part of the Springer Human-Computer Interaction Series. His co-authored book Videogame Formalism: On form, aesthetic experience, and methodology is due to be published in late 2023 by Amsterdam University Press. His creative work has been shown at various group exhibitions, most recently ID: The Body's Still Warm (42 Cambridge Road, 2018) and Climates of Change (ELO/HyperText, 2020). His fiction has been published in Dark Tales, Balik Kampung 2, and in several issues of the Twenty-Four Flavours series published by Math Paper Press. He is a founding member of the executive board of the Association for Research in Interactive Digital Narratives (ARDIN), and an advisor to the Singapore Games Association.