Hi there!

I'm Alf Seegert, professor at the University of Utah, game designer, game writer, and songwriter (more or less :). 

I am a Lecturer and teach courses in the Department of English, including Video Game Storytelling; Literature, Film, and Video Games; Virtuality and Enchantment; and Fantasy: The Lord of the Rings on Page and Screen.

I'm also an Affiliate Professor for the Division of Games. 

Twelve of my board games have been published so far and include Haven, Fantastiqa, The Road to Canterbury, Illumination, and Heir to the Pharaoh. See here to learn more. 

I'm also a writer of interactive fiction, including story encounters for Ryan Laukat's storytelling board games Above and Below, Near and Far, and Sleeping Gods: Tides of Ruin with Red Raven Games (the avatar above is one Ryan created based on me for Near and Far, with thanks to Jake "Seven" Thomashow for the wonderful calligraphy from Illumination). 

In 2023 I started a collaborative music project called The Bright Incantations, which you can listen to on YouTube, Bandcamp, Spotify, and other places.  

This is a close up from my game The Road to Canterbury, with the Parson marking the sin to which game designers are most susceptible. Photo courtesy of Chris Kirkman of Dice Hate Me.

Selected links: 

• The lyric video for the song "PSYCHOPUP" is now live on YouTube. 
• The lyric video for the song "A Deep Enchantment" is now available, from The Bright Incantations. 
• I was an online panelist for the Getty Museum to discuss my board games The Road to Canterbury and Illumination, as part of their exhibition "Play and Pastimes of the Middle Ages." I presented alongside the art directors for the medieval-themed video games Pentiment and Inkulinati. A recording of the event is here. 
• My favorite game review video: Two Towels calls my game The Road to Canterbury "The best ecclesiastical, penance-based, medieval-themed board game you'll play this year." Probably. That made my day. 
• Tied for favorite: Board Game Sanctuary's quirky and highly informative review of my game Haven. If you want to learn how to play it, this video is a perfect orientation. 
• Purple Phoenix Games gives a glowing review to the new edition of The Road to Canterbury. 
• ILLUMINATION is reviewed here by Space-Biff. "It’s as mesmerizing as a Gregorian chant, as jaunty as a day away from the monastery, and brimming with moments of anticipation and reversal."
• ILLUMINATION is now available to purchase from Eagle-Gryphon Games.
• The new "Impoverished Pilgrim's Edition" of my game The Road to Canterbury is now available to purchase from Eagle-Gryphon Games. 
• Inverse on "12 Board Games for Earth Day," or, "12 Board Games that Fix the Biggest Problem with Settlers of Catan." Includes interview and my game Haven. 
• EndersGame on BoardGameGeek reviews Illumination here. 
• You can now obtain Haven directly from Red Raven Games. 
• My game Haven is reviewed here by Space-Biff. 
• The Dice Tower gives my game Haven its Seal of Approval. 
• Rahdo Runs Through my game Heir to the Pharaoh, calling it "crackerjack smart" and a "very cleverly designed, very intense 2-player battle of wits."  
• SpaceBiff has posted a review of my board game Heir to the Pharaoh: "...a tight, clever, brisk, artistically brilliant, and never-dull game for two that I’ll be happy to call mine for years to come."
• AndHeGames interviewed me here.
• New Fantastiqa expansions include a special new card dedicated to Rich Sommer of Mad Men, who talked about Fantastiqa on BBC America's The Nerdist!
• Artistry in Games has a wonderful, art-filled review of Fantastiqa here. 
• ​My article "The Mistress of Sp[l]ices: Technovirtual Liaisons in Adolfo Bioy Casares’ The Invention of Morel" is now published in Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts. You can read it here. 
• My chapter "Ewe, Robot" in Philip K. Dick and Philosophy is now available here.