# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/elonka-dunin
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:27:19.446Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/elonka-dunin"
name: "Elonka Dunin"
slug: "elonka-dunin"
description: "Elonka Dunin is an American video game developer and cryptologist. Dunin worked at Simutronics Corp. in St. Louis, Missouri from 1990–2014, and in 2015 was Senior Producer at Black Gate Games in Nashville, Tennessee. She is Chairperson Emerita and one of the founders of the International Game Developers Association's Online Games group, has contributed or been editor in chief on multiple IGDA State of the Industry white papers, and was one of the Directors of the Global Game Jam from 2011–2014. As of 2020 she works as a management consultant at Accenture."
tagline: "American video game developer and cryptologist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Elonka_Dunin%2C_2006.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Developers"
  slug: "developers"
profileType:
  name: "Developer"
  slug: "developer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q5482740"
birthDate: "1958-12-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.39
  momentum:             0.5434782608695653
  historical:           6.347301333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 250
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.elonka.com/"
sources:
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonka_Dunin"
    title: "Elonka Dunin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D9%83%D8%A7_%D8%AF%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%86"
    title: "إلونكا دانين"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonka_Dunin"
    title: "Elonka Dunin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonka_Dunin"
    title: "Elonka Dunin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonka_Dunin"
    title: "Elonka Dunin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonka_Dunin"
    title: "Elonka Dunin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elonka_Dunin"
    title: "Elonka Dunin"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q766576"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump