Alex Dault

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT ALEX DAULT

Alex works as a designer for Next Level Games (whose titles include Super Mario Strikers, Punch-Out, Luigi’s Mansion 3 and most recently Mario Strikers™: Battle League) Prior to NLG, Alex was a technical narrative designer at The Coalition working on the Gears of War (Xbox) series. He was the lead writer for Fresh Tracks (Playstation 5, Steam) the number-one ranked music game on Metacritic for 2025. He got his start in video games as a narrative designer and game writer for Archiact Interactive, where he worked on Journey to Foundation (Playstation 5, Meta Quest 2) Alex is the founder of the Performance and XR Conference an international arts conference which brings together artists from all over the world to explore art creation in XR space. The conference is now planning for its seventh year. Before his career in games, Alex was a playwright and director with over a hundred production credits. He has a diploma in Advanced Game Design from the Centre for Entertainment Arts at Langara College, an advanced diploma in Theatre Arts from George Brown College and a Bachelor of Arts Honours from Queen\'s University. He was the Artistic Director of Theatre by the Bay from 2014 to 2018, and served as the Head of New Projects for Single Thread Theatre Company from 2010 to 2019. Alex is currently a sessional instructor at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Richmond, British Columbia where he teaches the Rapid Prototyping for Video Games and Storytelling in Games. Prior to this, he was a sessional instructor at George Brown College and Centennial College in Toronto, Ontario. He served on the Program Advisory for George Brown College\'s theatre school for more than ten years. In his spare time, Alex is an avid wall climber and boulderer and enjoys playing the tabletop-board game Twilight Imperium. He is a lifelong TTRPG player and game-master.