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Presentation at Game Industry Conference 2021

In October 2021, I will be co-presenting alongside Owen Brierley at the Game Industry Conference. We will share some of the work I did over the summer and discuss a new paradigm for creating emotional AI characters for narrative games.

Link to the talk here

Top Prospects: Leading Innovators from the of 2021

The Logic

In July 2021, I was featured on The Logic's annual list of leading innovators emerging from Canadian Universities.

Read the feature here

Creative Writing Student Tapped to Moonlight as Video Game Writer

CBC News

In November 2020, I was interviewed on CBC Radio along with Aritha Van Herk to discuss the role narratives play in video game development. Some of our lively discussion was highlighted in an accompanying article featuring my journey into video game development.

Read the feature here

Listen to the radio interview here

Michael Wahba Reads During YYC POP

YYC POP: Portraits of People

A poem I wrote was published in the YYC POP collection. I got the chance to read my poem in an online reading also featuring other notable Calgarians.

Watch the reading here