Prof Brown has been a game designer for over a decade, working in both AAA and indie spaces, and is currently a Principal Designer at Firewalk Studios.
They were formally a gameplay systems designer at Bungie (Destiny 2), a level designer with Heart Machine (Hyper Light Drifter), a designer at Insomniac Games (Sunset Overdrive, Resistance 3) and a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. As an indie designer, Prof released several experimental personal games, livestreamed game development and game design analysis, and did an academic residency at Harrisburg University. Prof loves mentoring mid-career designers and doing deep dive design analysis.
You can follow Prof Brown on Instagram as @prof_makes_games and Bluesky as @wertle.bsky.social.
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