Joie Martin is the founder and CEO of Drowning Moon Studios, an independent tabletop roleplaying game publisher. Joie has been writing, designing and developing roleplaying games since 1996. They have produced content for a variety of markets, including ARGs, interactive theater and live action roleplaying events. Joie has been a key speaker on panels about roleplaying game design at DragonCon, MomoCon, and Metatopia. They were head Judge for the 2020 IGDN Indie Groundbreaker Awards, and are the current IGDN Secretary.