Meerami is a cosplayer and propmaker based in Cleveland, OH. She started cosplaying at the end of 2016 when she attended her first convention- NYCC...
Morgan is a Cleveland based costumer, makeup artist, and performer who has been cosplaying for five years. What started off as a hobby evolved into...
Rubber City Cosplay, founded in 2015, is an all-volunteer group whose mission is to celebrate the positivity of cosplay and pop culture. RCC's Free...
Star is a Twitch partner, community leader, and game developer who does art and marketing in the industry. She spends her time helping developers a...
Stephanie is a full time cosplayer, model, & Twitch streamer from Ohio. She’s been attending conventions since 2013 & cosplaying since 2014. She’s ...
SwankyBox (Brad) is an Ohio-based YouTuber who runs a video game-focused channel with over 182,000 subscribers and 28 million views. He speaks at c...
Katie is an illustrator from Ohio, Lead Concept Artist for Multivarious and partnered Twitch streamer. She has three wonderful cats and a passion f...
Mars Ashton is an award-winning Indie Game Developer and Director/Assistant Professor in Game Art at Lawrence Technological University. He co-found...
Sean Beeson is a composer, producer, owner of Sean Beeson Studio LLC, and Senior Composer at Neoglyphic Entertainment. He has scored hundreds of ga...
At the age of 13, Chris advanced to the Semi-final round of the 1990 Nintendo World Championships in Cincinnati, Ohio. Twenty-five years later, he...
Daniel "iKasperr" Bong is a veteran online content creator, a proud father of two (cats), the director of the premiere broadcasting team Main Menu,...
Jon is a music composer and sound designer specializing in advertising, film and games. He has composed music for national brands, including Downy,...
Jess has almost five years of game industry experience under her belt, and currently works as a freelance event and video host, partnered Twitch st...
Cory Brown is Founder and Creative Director at AFO Studio, an indie game company based in Huntington West Virginia. He’s a Board Member of the App...
Tom Caprel is a marketer, gamer, tech enthusiast, and trained opera singer. In 2013, Tom and his co-founder started a big-data website to analyze v...
Marcus Cenci is a 15 year vet in the games industry where he’s worked on multiple projects as an Art Director and Lead Artist including the Saints...
Tim Claubaugh Jr. attended Terra State Community College from 2009-2011 and then graduated from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio in 2013 with a...
Jason Conaway was previously a Senior Software Engineer at Hypnos Entertainment and is working with Riot Games to help create their updated League ...
DB Cooper is the voice of the AI, the mercenary, the goblin, and the goddess. She casts and directs films, advertisements, and video games; and has...
Bria Davis is a game developer, digital artist, and social media expert. A lover of inclusive storytelling and a good pun, she currently works as a...
Ryan Davis is a solo indie dev based in Indiana. As both an artist and a programmer, Ryan specializes in the magic space between art and code. He h...
Joshua DeBonis is an award-winning game designer and President of BumbleBear. Joshua is a co-founder and organizer of NYC-Playtest. He has taught g...
Seven is the Co-Host of The ELEAGUE Report podcast by ELEAGUE, the winner of Blizzard’s “So You Think You Can Cast”, and an official Hearthstone Co...
James Deighan is a co-founder of Mega Cat Studios. With over a decade of start up experience and 100+ shipped projects, he's a proven leader. A r...
Ryan Donovan has been a financial adviser passionate about education and helping clients achieve financial security with Northwestern Mutual for th...
Kate Edwards is the CEO and principal consultant of Geogrify, a consultancy for content culturalization, a Board Member of Take This, and is the fo...
Leanthony focuses on trademarks, technology transactions/licensing and privacy. His experience includes assisting clients with social media, tradem...
William Evans is a writer and nerd connoisseur from Columbus, OH. He is the co-founder of Black Nerd Problems. In addition to authoring three manus...
Travis Faas brings his experience working for an advertising company into the classroom, teaching students how to build interactive media experienc...
Harris Foster is the Community Manager of the award-winning indie publishing team Finji. With his coming-of-age taking place during the boom of eas...
Roland Garza is a local composer, percussionist, private music educator, and sound designer within the Columbus, Ohio area. Originally from Dallas,...
Mike Geig is a Technical Evangelist for Unity Technologies where he develops and delivers recorded, live, and onsite learning content. He enjoys lo...
Steve Hamaker is the Eisner Award winning colorist of Bone, RASL, and Table Titans. In 2005 he self published his first graphic novel, Fish N Chips...
Daemon Hatfield is a senior producer at IGN.com and a host of IGN’s popular video game talk show Game Scoop! He currently resides in San Francisco ...
Ross is an attorney, writer, and gamer. He received his J.D. and LL.M. in intellectual property from the John Marshall Law School. Ross is the foun...
I currently work for InContext Solutions as a senior engineer using Unity. I wrote the first edition of Unity in Action while working for Synapse G...
Kazuma Jinnouchi is BAFTA-nominated music composer, actively working both in U.S. and Japan. He has provided scores for numerous projects inclu...
Scott Johnson is an illustrator and veteran podcaster based in Salt Lake City. His webcomic MyExtraLife launched in 2001 and still runs to this day...
Zack Kelly is an entertainer at his core. By day, he's a Product Owner and Business Analyst with the consulting firm Improving. By night, he marvel...
Nick Locapo is a former game developer turned magician. In the early 2000's he was at the forefront of browser-based gaming, and was responsible fo...
Susan Magnani is in her final year at Bowling Green State University, where she will complete a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science. T...
Kira Magrann is a tabletop roleplaying game designer, queer cyborg, and snake mom living in Columbus, Ohio. She currently has a Patreon where she d...
Zack Manko is a self-proclaimed Retro Apostle. He's been a game designer for over a decade and now celebrates his role as co-founder/co-conspirator...
Andrew Marsh is the Lead Designer at Mega Cat Studios. He's been working on NES games with color and technical restrictions since the late 90's. He...
Nikita Mikros is the CEO of BumbleBear and a veteran game designer. He is a three time IGF finalist, Indiecade and Come Out and Play winner. In add...
With over 25 years of experience with a user focused approach to designing and developing innovative products, Michael was instrumental in evangeli...
Justin Moodley is a Strategist at LASANAN, a digital agency that develops and manages performance marketing programs for growth-stage organizations.
Hope Moore is a member of the development team at the Game Research and Immersive Design (GRID) Lab at Ohio University in Athens. Her background in...
Cat Musgrove is a Medical Artist & Animator at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital. She worked as an animator at Activision for 5 years, and an indie ar...
Matthew "Queso" Niederberger is a programmer at Muse Games, and studied undergraduate Game Design and Development at the Rochester Institute of Tec...
Rick Payne is the founder of CincyHolo LLC, a software development company that specializes in building applications for wearable mixed reality dev...
Brett Pennings is the game design and development half of Bowlcut Studios, based in Grand Rapids, MI. He designed and developed the GDEX 2017 "Best...
Charles Pratt is an Associate Arts Professor at the NYU Game Center, where he teaches game design, history, and studies. He is also the Director of...
Rachel Presser is a game developer, writer, content strategist, and business educator from The Bronx. Living a life and digital media career by her...
Rebekah Saltsman is the co-founder and CEO of Finji, mom-and-pop indie development studio and publisher based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Rebekah st...
Ben Serviss has been making games as a writer, producer and game designer since 2004. He's worked on everything from console shooters to licensed F...
As the Lead Business Development Associate for Games Scribes (a localization & testing company), Tobe Sexton has the privilege of witnessing the ne...
Suzi Shapiro is a Principal User Experience Consultant with GravityDrive. She is well educated in the fine points of the user experience with a PhD...
Mike Sill is an Engine Lead for Halon Entertainment. With 11 years of experience using Unreal Engine, and a background in Game Art & 3d modeling, M...
Alyssa Stahl is currently attending Ohio University and is majoring in Media Arts & Studies with a focus in animation and virtual reality. She work...
Jason Tharp has dreamed of being an author and inventing crazy creatures since he was a kid. Being an obsessive daydreamer and doodler has led him ...
Philip "PTibz" Tibitoski is president of Young Horses Games, the nine person independent game development studio in Chicago, IL that created Octoda...
Christopher Totten is an Assistant Professor in the Modeling, Animation, and Game Creation at Kent State University. He is the founder of Pie For B...
PRESIDENT & FOUNDER // MULTIVARIOUS GAMES EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & PRESIDENT // GDEX FOUNDER // OHIO GAME DEVELOPER ASSOCIATION Chris Volpe...
Donte Woods-Spikes is a speaker, videographer, and mentor to teens through out the city of Columbus. He is a part time student at Columbus State se...
George Ziets has been writing and designing games since 2001. He spent the first part of his career on MMOs like Lord of the Rings Online and D&D O...
