Ryan Robert Rinkel

• Define the studio's philosophy and practices for using generative AI across games, film, and interactive media; translate model capabilities into concrete workflows the team can adopt.
• Set the prompt-engineering standards the writing team uses day to day, and designed the human-in-the-loop review process that keeps AI output accountable to human editors.
• Co-designed a character roleplay system: trained custom LoRAs and deployed character-specific LLMs so each cast member has a distinct voice, memory, and point of view.
• Drive the studio's ElevenLabs partnership (token grant, direct partner contacts) and lead integration of their voice tech into narrative pipelines.

Los Angeles, CA

• Wrote and produced videos seen by hundreds of millions of players across League of Legends channels, owning concept, script, vendor management, edit, and delivery.
• Produced and released Tellstones: King's Gambit, a physical tabletop game, from design docs through manufacturing and launch video.
• Shipped R&D quest-based prototypes for unreleased projects and led co-writing on a narrative-prose game prototype that informed internal narrative events.
• Grew from content manager into a cross-functional producer role spanning writing, video, and tabletop across narrative, marketing, and product teams.

New York City

• Founded and led an off-Broadway puppet, improv, and Shakespeare troupe; Puppet Titus Andronicus earned a New York Times Critics' Pick and ran off-Broadway in 2015. Adapted, directed, produced, and built the audience and partnerships that sustained a nine-year run.

• Taught Shakespeare for many years, including organizing and producing a tour of New York City public schools — designing workshops that make dense technical material approachable for first-time audiences.
• Organized a gaming-industry meetup during GDC in San Francisco focused on AI in games, bringing developers together to compare notes on real-world use.