Carly A. Kocurek
Founder and Principal
Carly A. Kocurek is a game designer, researcher, and historian. Her scholarly work has formed the basis for two books, Coin-Operated Americans: Rebooting Boyhood at the Video Game Arcade and Brenda Laurel: Pioneering Games for Girls. Her games have been exhibited nationally and internationally, and Paste magazine called Choice: Texas "one of the best games of 2014." She founded Replicas of Ruins in 2018 as an umbrella for her consulting and public projects. You can read more about her and her academic work at her personal site.