Mark Eyles

Hippy, punk, teacher, entrepreneur, holographer, game designer, academic, and author.

For Mark Eyles, storytelling has always been at the heart of his work. A pioneer of the early computer games industry, he went on to shape the future of the medium by creating some of the UK’s first undergraduate and postgraduate game design and development courses.

Over the years, Mark has worked as Creative Director at Quicksilva, Head of Design at Rebellion Developments, and later as Course Leader at the University of Portsmouth, where he also completed a PhD in videogame design. In 2004, he founded Women in Games and for more than a decade advised the games industry trade body TIGA, who named him Person of the Year in 2017. His creative credits span books, comics (2000 AD, Sonic the Comic), and videogames(Aliens versus Predator, Asterix, Ant Attack, Back to the Future, and dozens more).

Since 2019, Mark has turned his lifelong passion for imaginative worlds into writing science fiction and fantasy novels. His recent books include Killers and Dragons, Icefall Cities, and Firedrift Moon, along with the graphic novel Stellar Megastructure, created with ambient artist 4T Thieves.

When not writing, he plays piano, runs, and practices tai chi - or escapes into scifi, fantasy, and superhero movies, and computer games.