Panelists

Jen is a creative director @ Snoozy Kazoo, the studio behind Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion! Their main mission is to create cute yet unhinged experiences that are accessible for all. She is powered by the pure unadulterated power of gamersupps and cold chef Boyardee, which has created an unstoppable force. She can be seen writing, arting, and designing in her natural habitat (her desk).

Kate is a game designer at Other Ocean Interactive, organizer for Boston Post Mortem (IGDA Boston), and jack of all trades. You might also know them as a former adjunct instructor for WPI’s IMGD 1001 course!

Henry is a recent WPI alum now working as a game programmer at Resolution Games in Sweden. He was also in MassDigi SIP 2020 and makes pixel art and bite-sized games in his spare time.

Tim is currently an Associate Design Director at Lost Boys Interactive. He’s worked under a variety of disciplines within the games industry over the past 16 years.

Meaghan Glynn is a UX/UI swiss army knife with 14 years of experience in games.

John (WPI ’16) is an indie dev at Rocket Rat Games, currently working on Cobalt Core, a tactics roguelike deck-builder. His previous game, Sunshine Heavy Industries, was the recipient of IGF’s Honorable Mention for Excellence in Design 2022. Talk to him about cooking and Ghibli movies!

Brad has worked in Boston game industry for eleven years in many different roles – game designer, producer, product manager and QA engineer. Brad is also an amateur board game designer, writer and music composer – a jack-of-all-trades, master of none.

Yukon is the studio head @ Snoozy Kazoo, the studio behind Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion! They have collected the infinity stones of roles within a studio. With the might of a producer, designer, programmer, writer, and artist, they thanos snapped into the industry right after college. Their wish is to continue to create chaotic and accessible experiences for all.

WPI 2020 Alumni, currently Team Assistant at Bad Robot Games. Currently stuck between 5 RPGs and is very bad at all of them.

Ray is a recent WPI alum (’21) working as a Software Engineer at HaptX in Redmond, Washington. He spends most of his time hiking, playing music, watching movies, and playing D&D with friends!

Jerry Snook grew up playing the Atari and Dungeons & Dragons while discovering early computers, and had a career in radio broadcasting prior to joining the games industry in 2010 with Standing Stone Games. As the Community Manager for Standing Stone Games he works primarily in bringing the concerns of the community into development conversations in addition to being the person behind the company’s social media and video accounts. Make sure to let him know if you have any rare retro game carts!

Katie is a Studio Art Director at Storm8, a casual mobile game studio in CA. She has over 15 years of experience in casual, mobile and casino spaces with 2D art, UI/UX, marketing design and 3D pipelines and teams.

Keith Zizza is a game audio designer and IMGD instructor / lecturer. He is currently the audio lead at For Fun Labs, working on several exciting VR games (coming soon!).

McKenna Gameros (screen name Convallaria) is a content designer for the DDO team with Standing Stone Games. She is a 2022 graduate of the IMGD MS program, focusing in both academic and professional settings on storytelling in games.