Alex M. Lee crafts narrative games and illustrations for sad romantics with a taste for the absurd. Through a queer East Asian lens, she explores themes of girlhood, grief, positive nihilism, and inter-dimensional romance. Her recent visual novel work challenges existing preconceptions within nerd subcultures as well as the dating simulator canon, pushing the definitions of attraction and desirability in both. Whether they are a centuries-old skeleton lord in the case of BARD HARDER! or genderqueer aliens in need of therapy in the case of Kiss/OFF, she thrives when creating unconventional characters that players will still want to kiss – painted in a vibrant, stylish anime-influenced look. Her favorite emotion is halfway between anger and awe.