Columbia University in the City of New York

New York University

Horace Greeley High School

CEO and Game Designer at Ancient Mariner Games

Baltimore, Maryland, United States

I co-founded Ancient Mariner Games to work on Severed Sky, a character-driven solarpunk 4X strategy game for the PC. I am responsible for business administration and recruitment as well as system design on the game.

Ancient Mariner Games

CEO and Game Designer

Self-employed

Game Designer

I worked under Civilization series veterans on the 4X game Old World (formerly 10 Crowns), contributing to systems and narrative design.

Mohawk Games

Junior Game Designer

I led feature teams, wrote historical text, and managed in-game live events for the mobile strategy game DomiNations.

Big Huge Games

Associate Game Designer

I was one of the designers and programmers as well as the audio director on Sumer, a digital board game and my MFA thesis project. I co-founded Studio Wumpus with my teammates to continue working on the game.

Studio Wumpus

Co-Founder

As part of the Critical Hit experimental games incubator at Concordia University's TAG Lab, I helped create five games. These included:- Still: an atmospheric exploration of childhood memories and emotions- Welcome, Inspector: a multiplayer interrogation role-playing game- Spacebro Justice Rocket: a game that uses high-fives as input- Shimmy: a glitchy time-warping platformer- Agency: a single-player text-based game about bureaucracy and obfuscation

Critical Hit

Game Developer

I designed games and helped with project management and production for Studio Mercato, an NYC-based indie game developer collective and label. Our projects included the Nika digital app, Crystal Brawl, and Don't F**k Up for the Grasshopper Round Table.

Studio Mercato

Lead Designer, Co-Founder

I created designs, wrote design documentation, ran playtests, and managed overseas programming resources for the Grasshopper platform.

Grasshopper NYC

Designer/Producer

I led Game Crafters, a weekly volunteer after-school apprenticeship course that taught game design and programming concepts to 6th graders using Scratch.

Citizen Schools

Teacher: Game Crafters

I designed the strategy game Snowball for the Grasshopper platform.

I established learning objectives and created design documentation for a suicide prevention educational platform commissioned by the state of Vermont.

Vermont Suicide Prevention Platform

Instructional Designer

Responsibilities included: Design concepts, prototyping, and documentation

Potion Design

Game Design Consultant

I developed games in Flash and GameSalad.Games programmed: Escape 3D Pyramid, Escape 3D Death Lab, Escape 3D Library, Escape 3D Bathroom, Escape 3D Basement, Escape 3D Deck

Game Pub

Development Intern

I worked for Charley, an independent NYC game designer, in the context of game and AI design, project management for the President Elect iPad game, and original concepts for games.

Charley Miller

Apprentice

An independent game that began at the January 2012 Global Game Jam, Beat Juice Radio was released five months later. It was the product of four independent developers, including myself.My responsibilities on the project included, but were not limited to: original concepts, project management, gameplay design, AI design, wireframing, design documentation, playtesting, bug tracking and testing, and tutorial creation.

Beat Juice Radio

Lead Designer

I tested games, reported bugs, and suggested design revisions.

Part Time QA Tester

Tasks included: drafting press releases and fact sheets, researching mobile and tablet gaming, editing demo walkthroughs, providing feedback on demos of unreleased games, tracking press coverage, updating contact lists.

Sandbox Strategies

Intern

I designed the board game Nika, which won an Ion Award at SaltCON 2013. Nika is published by Eagle Games. The game was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign which raised over $14,000 from more than 500 backers, and shipped in August/September 2014.

Nika

Designer

Wrote reviews of recently released games.

PopuGamer.com

Game Reviewer

Responsibilities included: Regression testing, software testing, industry research, database analysis.

Josh Raab

Josh Raab