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I’m a career video game designer and developer, now creating videos out of a passion for design, games, teaching and helping others become more resilient to the challenges of professional game development and technology work.
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About
Over my 30 years in the industry, I’ve led the design for award-winning adventure, social, strategy, simulation, platform, brawler, FPS, and massively multiplayer online games. I was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Game Developer’s Choice Awards in 2021. I was a frequent conference speaker on topics ranging from design to analytics and more recently on wellness and inclusion in game development. I’m an outspoken proponent of games for everyone and a fierce advocate for increased diversity on our game development teams.
I was Creative Director for the ground-breaking MMO Free Realms at Sony Online Entertainment, which the New York Times called “a triumph of the company’s own reinvention.” I was also lead designer for the critically acclaimed Full Spectrum Warrior, the most nominated game of E3 2003. I was one of Gamasutra’s Top Ten Game Developers of 2014, I shared the top spot in Massive Online Gaming’s 2010 list of the Top 20 Most Influential People in MMOs, I was on Beckett’s list of the top women in MMOs for 2010, and I was one of Gamasutra’s 20 most influential women in games in 2008.