Kimberly Unger

Kimberly Unger is the author of the 2022 Phillip K. Dick Memorial Award-winning “The Extractionist”. She created her first videogame back when the 80-column card was the new hot thing and turned her literary love of science fiction into a full blown obsession with the intersection of technology and humanity.

Kimberly followed up with degrees from the University of California at Davis and the Art Center College of Design which gave her the tools to work on both the creative and the business side of games and entertainment. She spent ten years working as a creative, followed by ten years as the CEO of her own 3P mobile game studio before making the jump to the Oculus Publishing team at Meta.

Today she spends her day-job time in MR, lectures on the intersection of art and code whenever necessary and writes science fiction about how all these app-driven superpowers are going to change the human race.

Kimberly Unger

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Promotion for Introverts

May 22, 2022 7:30 pm to 8:30 pm

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Panelists: Elle E. Ire, Jeff Reynolds, Kimberly Unger, Premee Mohamed and C.J. Lavigne (moderator)
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You’ve got the contract! Your book is coming out! Congrats. Now, you have to promote it. Truth is, even the “big” houses require writers to do much of the marketing footwork themselves, and there’s lots of info on what to do and when. But, for us introverts, the shy, and the neurodiverse, stumping our own work is, at best, a source of fraught ambivalence, and, at worst, a gauntlet of terror. There are ways to push through, though. Come hear from other introverts who’ve made it through marketing in one piece, more or less.

Writing for Virtual Reality

May 13, 2023 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm

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Panelists: Kimberly Unger, Matt Toner and Rob Swigart (moderator)
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Virtual reality has made the jump from a science-fictional concept to a present-day reality. While exactly what virtual reality will become is still up for debate, we can start to think about getting ahead of the game and what kinds of writing are going to thrive in a world where we are all more deeply connected.

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Interactive Fiction: What is It, Why Write It?

June 7, 2024 10:30 am to 11:30 am

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Panelists: Matt Toner (moderator), Stewart Baker, Alex Kingsley and Kimberly Unger
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An introduction to interactive fiction (AKA text games), including resources for those who want to try their hand at writing a no-graphics, low-programming game and publishing it online for others to play.
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