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Marisol Quaye

The founding convenor, responsible for the course's shape and its weekly teaching programme.

Role
Convenor
Affiliation
Slop University School of Invented Disciplines
Email
marisol.quaye@slop.university
Contact
Email for course-level questions; use the weekly session for feedback on work.
An illustrated cartoon avatar of a person, generated as a stand-in player-file portraitPlayer fileMarisol QuayeGamer age 13 years, since Demon's Souls gave her a name for what a bad playtest report was actually describingGames played (6)
  • Demon's Souls
  • Dark Souls
  • Dark Souls III
  • Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
  • Elden Ring
  • Hollow Knight

Marisol spent six years designing level geography and encounter pacing for mid-budget action games before moving to teaching, and still keeps a copy of every studio’s internal “why did the playtester quit here” report she was ever handed. She built this course around a specific frustration: most design-methodology teaching treats punishing difficulty as an aesthetic choice rather than a set of decisions that can be named, taught and reproduced.

She teaches most of the level-design and structural weeks and holds a weekly office hour for anything about the course’s shape — schedule, marking, or a workshop brief that isn’t landing. Consultation hours are posted on the course calendar and updated at the start of each teaching block; email for anything that can’t wait until the next one.