page_title: Emily Short
hierarchical_section_title: Emily Short
caption_attribution_description: Interactive fiction writer Emily Short at PAX East, Boston.
context_page_description: Emily Short is an interactive fiction writer, perhaps best known for her debut game Galatea and her use of psychologically complex NPCs, or non-player game characters. She has been called "a visionary in the world of text-based games for years", and is the author of over thirty-five works of IF in addition to being chief editor of the IF Theory Book.
  She wrote a regular column on IF for Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
context_section_description: Emily Short is an interactive fiction (IF) writer, perhaps best known for her debut game Galatea and her use of psychologically complex NPCs, or non-player game characters.  She has been called "a visionary in the world of text-based games for years", and is the author of over thirty-five works of IF in addition to being chief editor of the IF Theory Book.
  She wrote a regular column on IF for Rock, Paper, Shotgun.
caption: Emily Short in 2010.
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