About Me

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Lyla McBeath Fujiwara is a game designer and project lead living in Massachusetts. She’s had many past lives, from teaching high schoolers in East Africa to eight years in tech, where she worked as a developer for Google News and created online courses that taught hundreds of thousands of students to make their first mobile apps.

She currently is the project lead for the award-winning Cosmere RPG, which in 2024 became the highest funded tabletop Kickstarter ever. There, she coordinates a team of 20 diverse creatives working on 14 game products. She is also the book lead for the RPG’s first hardcover campaign-length adventure, Stonewalkers. As the book lead, she directs the writing team and the overall creative execution of the adventure.

As a designer, she writes games that focus non-traditional mechanics, character-driven stories, and adventure design. She was a 2023 Storytelling Collective Creative Laureate and 2023 Big Bad Con POC scholar, and has freelanced for Evil Hat Productions, Gamehole Con, Bob World Builder, and Jeff Stevens Games. Her Broadway musical-inspired game, Jukebox: The Karaoke Musical TTRPG, successfully raised over $16,000 on Kickstarter and was profiled by both Dicebreaker and Polygon.

In addition to her creative work, she’s writing a substack series on TTRPG project management and is the Big Bad Con crowdfunding co-lead. In her off hours she can be found throwing lopsided ceramics, drawing, and cooking feasts for her cooperative house.