Matthew Weise is a narrative designer and writer whose work bridges the worlds of games and traditional entertainment. He spearheaded the story development of Disney's Fantasia: Music Evolved for Harmonix Music Systems, co-designed and directed the game prequel to the Christopher Nolan produced sci-fi film Transcendence, and has performed similar roles on projects for Netflix, HBO, Microsoft, Red Bull, Eko, PBS, and The National Ballet of Spain. His IGF-nominated The Snowfield, an emotion-driven immersive experience set during WWI, was developed while he was Game Design Director of MIT's GAMBIT Game Lab, an initiative that mixed games and research in innovative ways. He is currently serving as writer / narrative designer for Monolith: Requiem For the Ancients by C2 Game Studio and Versus | Evil.