# Austin Grossman

> Novelist, Game Designer, Narrative Designer, XR Designer

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/austingrossman

I'm a novelist, narrative game designer, XR experience designer.

## Work Experience
### Lead Designer @ Windup Minds
Jan 2023 – Present | Brooklyn, New York, United States

### Adjunct Professor @ New York University
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, NY
I teach writing and narrative design in the Dramatic Writing program at Tisch School for the Arts, at NYU.

### author of the novels SOON I WILL BE INVINCIBLE, YOU: A NOVEL, CROOKED, and FIGHT ME @ self
Jan 2007 – Present

### Freelance game design & narrative consultant @ Impossible Industries LLC
Jan 2000 – Present
Including Deus Ex (Ion Storm), Disney's Epic Mickey (Junction Point), and Dishonored (Arkane).

### Director, Game Design and Interactive Storytelling @ Magic Leap, Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Work included:
•	developing original creative IP
•	leadership in XR experience prototype design and iteration
•	working in a joint UNDP/Magic Leap team to conceptualize and promote spatial computing as a telepresence solution for costs, risk and climate impact of travel
•	authoring best practices for spatial computing content
•	participation in joint XR/theater project with Royal Shakespeare Company

### Writer @ Arkane Studios
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014
Dishonored
Dishonored DLC

### Writer @ Ion Storm
Jan 1999 – Jan 2000 | Austin, Texas, United States
Writer, Deus Ex

### Lead Game Designer @ Dreamworks
Jan 1996 – Jan 1999
Lead Game Designer and Writer, Trespasser

### Writer/Designer @ LookingGlass Technologies
Jan 1992 – Jan 1995
Writer and Narrative Designer:
Ultima Underwold II
System Shock


## Education
### BA in Psychology
Harvard University

### ABD in English Literature
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2001 – Jan 2007

### Master of Arts (M.A.) in Performance Studies
New York University
Jan 1993 – Jan 1995


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austingrossman

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Last updated: 2026-03-30