Biography
Hello! I'm Jake Indgin, a writer, DASM-certified producer, and game designer from California. I have created and published over 20 playable works and continue to add new projects to my portfolio.
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Always striving to develop my literary style and voice, I welcome every challenge and view them as experiences in learning and growing as a media-literate writer and artist.
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I hold a B.A. in Games and Playable Media from UC Santa Cruz, where I spent too few years lost in the woods, watching deer and turkeys.
For questions, comments, or project inquiries, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Testimonials
''Jake taught me that the space of the writing workshop is indeed a round table that symbolizes the cyclical co-constitution of the page and lived experience, of play and formal constraint, of new media and old hermeneutics.
...Jake is equally interested in elements of traditional craft, especially narrativity and characterization, and what these tenants of fiction can bring to the table of new forms.''
- Kendall Grady, PhD Candidate and Instructor, UCSC
''[Jake's] world-building is quite strong while being subtle at the same time; as readers, we don’t see the stitches—we are simply immersed. The visual and aural details are exact and immediately engaging. He knows how to construct character through small gestures and descriptions, and the dialogue is plausible and well-balanced with narration. The plot is arresting, enough so that I regretted only being able to see... two segments.''
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Jake... understood how to comment on other students’ work, not relying on personal preference but on key concerns such as how plot, setting, character, structure, and point of view all added up to the heart of a story.
- Roz Spafford, Lecturer, UCSC/University of Toronto
''...[Jake] was very responsible and reliable, always submitted his work on time, and always had comments ready for class discussion.
Jake is the kind of student that instructors love having in their classes. He is very comfortable in this type of environment and very willing to participate in the community building necessary for creative writing classes. I hope he has the chance to take more writing classes, since I know he and the other students... will benefit from his presence.''
- Juliana Leslie, PhD and Continuing Lecturer, UCSC
