Investigating Alternate Worlds
Investigating the organizations, figures, and places of alternate worlds. The Templin Institute provides in-depth analyses of popular science fiction, fantasy, and alternate history works from across video games, movies, novels, and television.
In addition to our Youtube content, The Templin Institute also streams three times a week on Twitch, playing a variety of games from Grand Strategy campaigns to story-driven roleplaying games and a random assortment of other genres.
The Templin Institute is based in Canada. Or in an undisclosed interdimensional facility.
The Team
Marc Gerst
"The Man Behind the Curtain"
Co-Founder | Creative Director
While attending classes at the Center for Arts and Technology and later the University of Lethbridge, Marc worked as freelance videographer, covering everything from the Agricultural Industry or Australia to the Tibbitt to Contwoyto Winter Road in Nunavut. His own projects included several short films and the highly anticipated Sins of a Solar Empire mod Dawn of Victory, where he developed his skills as a graphic designer. These days, Marc writes and edits for the Templin Institute from the comfort of his underground bunker network located deep within the Earth’s mantle
Marc, or someone close enough as makes no difference.