Naomi Clark

Teaches at Playcrafting NYC

Naomi Clark, NYU Game Center

Naomi Clark is an independent game designer and a professor at the NYU Game Center, where she teaches game design, player research, and tabletop roleplaying. Naomi has contributed to over three dozen games since 1999, including early multiplayer online games, digital brick-building tools and web games for LEGO, mobile simulation games, conference games and many more. Naomi wrote about games and feminism for several years at Feministe, then co-authored a textbook titled A Game Design Vocabulary with Anna Anthropy. Outside of games, Naomi helped found the Sylvia Rivera Law Project collective in 2002, and contributed to Brooklyn's queer country music scene as a drummer for bands such as The Low and the Lonesome and the Invert Family Singers. Naomi's most recent projects are Consentacle, a two-player cooperative card game about an intimate encounter between a human and an alien, and Lacerunner, a retheme of a cyberpunk card game set amidst 19th century class struggles.