J. Isaac Gadient

Writer–Narrative Designer

United States

J. Isaac Gadient creates characters, narratives, words, and worlds. Adventure games and RPGs fostered their Künstlerroman in the middle of 90s America. The dissolution and disillusion of media throughout the 21st century has informed their postmodern/preapocalypse heuristics.

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THE TYRANNY OF BACKLOGS

J. Isaac Gadient Goodreads officially launched in January 2007. This was a social media database website allowing users to catalogue their libraries, marking books as read, TBR (to be read), or DNF (did not finish).

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GDC PREP NOTES FROM THE PHONE OF J. ISAAC GADIENT

GDC PREP Saturday, March 7, 20269:06 AMI have put off:◦ Packing◦ Doing Laundry to even have clothes to pack◦ Trying on outfits to see if i even own anything fancy enough for the awards shows that still fit on my fluctuating-in-size body◦ Doing Dishes (cannot leave the sink full for

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MDEV 2025

Madison, Wisconsin: An hour west of Milwaukee and half its size; two hours west of Chicago and a tenth its size. But Madison does boast one feature (in addition to the best cheese curds in the world): A robust local game development scene.