Who made it

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Jessica Faye Stapleton


is a designer, writer, and producer based in Charleston, South Carolina. She builds worlds that mirror our own.

Through her studio, Vacant Lot Creative, Jessica develops story-driven projects that blur the line between critique and play. Her debut title, PIDG: Predictive Intelligence & Data Governance, transforms late-stage capitalism into a darkly funny strategy game about money, control, and economic survival in the algorithmic age.

Before launching Vacant Lot Creative, Jessica spent more than a decade in video production and marketing, working as a one-woman studio producing scripts, performances, and post-production for hundreds of brands.

Jessica attended Bethel College before graduating from The Evergreen State College. Her academic path swung between structure and rebellion—an education that now informs her work’s balance of insight and irreverence. She believes the best design makes people laugh first and think later.

When she’s not refining a game mechanic or a sentence, she’s likely exploring new cities, sketching ideas for future projects, or quietly mapping the next creative conspiracy.

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Nicholas Zippmann

is a game designer, systems architect, and creative technologist based on the East Coast. His work explores how structure helps us tell a story and how experimentation allows us to discover fun.

With a background that bridges programming and design, Nick specializes in building frameworks that empower creativity. He develops systems, workflows, and tools that make iteration feel like play. His philosophy is that good design doesn’t just entertain; it reveals the hidden rules that shape how we think, act, and interact.

A member of Vacant Lot Creative, Nick consulted onPIDG: Predictive Intelligence & Data Governance, providing testing and design feedback on each iteration of the game.

When he’s not making games, he’s usually near water, a mountain, or both.

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