About Me

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Lyla McBeath Fujiwara (@ceruleanotter) is a game designer and project manager 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.

As a creator, she writes games that focus on intricate stories, complex characters, and mechanics that drive the narrative. She is a 2023 Storytelling Collective Creative Laureate and 2023 Big Bad Con POC scholar, and has freelanced for Gamehole Con, Bob World Builder, and Jeff Stevens Games.

Her own projects include Encounters in the Radiant Citadel, a 10-person D&D 5e project where she was the lead, layout artist, and writer, as well as Jukebox: A Karaoke Musical TTRPG, a karaoke-based storytelling TTRPG. Out of Luck, a 5e D&D heist set in the Radiant Citadel location of Umizu, was recently featured on a D&D Beyond Community Spotlight.

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