Summary

Brandon Van Slyke is a professional video game designer with experience designing commercial console games, mobile games, and casual downloadable web games, including Snapshot Adventures: Secret of Bird Island, which was nominated for an Independent Games Festival award in 2008.

In addition to his work in game design, Brandon has also written feature articles for GameCareerGuide.com and Game Developer Magazine and is the Editor-in-Chief of nycgameindustry.com, the central online repository and informational hub for New York’s growing game development community.

He studied game art and design at the Art Institute of Vancouver-Burnaby and was a member of the first graduating class of game design students at Vancouver Film School. An active outspoken member of the IGDA and lifelong game enthusiast, Brandon currently works as a game designer at Vicarious Visions (an Activision studio) in New York.

Experience

CURRENT
Game Designer
Vicarious Visions
2007-Present

Founder/Editor-in-Chief
nycgameindustry.com
2008-Present

PAST
Contract Designer
Shift Control Media
2007

Game Designer/Associate Producer
Large Animal Games
2006-2007

Game Designer
Gameloft
2006

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