Anna Russell
game designer & WRITER
Modern GENRE
A. E. N. Russell is a writer and game designer based in Indianapolis, specializing in dark fantasy, strange horror, and dreamy science fiction. Hailing initially from Southern California, she bounced between a few cities before finally settling in the Midwest, where she works on crowdfunding logistics in the tabletop games industry. Her writing can be found in the board games Betrayal at House on the Hill 3rd Edition and Aeon’s End: Past and Future. You can find her on some social media platforms at aenrussell.
Aeon’s End: Past and Future
The seventh installment of the Aeon’s End series, Past and Future adds two new expeditions to this innovative deckbuilding game, telling the history of breach magic and showing the world that mages will build for themselves, while introducing new mechanics, new monsters to fight, and new heroes to play.
Betrayal At house on the hill 3e
A revamped version of a beloved game, Betrayal 3rd Edition features new and revised stories for players to experience as they explore an old haunted house, uncover secrets best left hidden, and potentially (usually) betray each other.
I’ve been writing stories since before I can remember. My writing dances the line between speculative and literary, and was born out of my admiration of modern genre writers like Jeff VanderMeer and Carmen Maria Machado as well as my childhood love of nineteenth century literature. I obsess over the perfect rhythm of a sentence to fully evoke settings and characters at their strangest and most beautiful. My work is exceptionally atmospheric, drawing from my California roots exploring that varied and dramatic landscape. Keep an eye out for my storytelling in short fiction, narrative game design, and (hopefully one day) novels.