About

I am a contract game designer and professor of game design at the Savannah College of Art and Design. I have been in the game industry since 1981 and have shipped 22 commercial titles. I am an avid player of games and am currently spending an absurd amount of time studying them.

Contact me at my first initial at my whole name dot com. Make sure to spell my last name with just one “i”.

Availability for Contracting - I’m solidly booked through July 2008

Current Industry Involvement

IGDA Board of Directors - Elected March 2008
IGDA Savannah Chapter Co-Founder - Fall 2007
IGDA Education SIG - Ad Hoc Committee Chair - March 2008

Current Areas of Study

  • Social-net gaming and Facebook
  • ARGs
  • Perceived meaning versus actual meaning in video game choices and the influence that has on play/flow
  • Using games to educate at-risk youth
  • Using games to teach emotionally difficult subjects

Ludography

OneHundredDogs.com, (200 8)
Def Jam: Icon (Story Mode) (2007), Electronic Art
Playboy: The Mansion, Party Pak (2006), ARUSH Entertainment, Groove Games
Playboy: The Mansion (2005), ARUSH Entertainment, Groove Games
Dungeons & Dragons: Heroes (2003), Atari, Inc.

Wizardry 8 (2001), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Wizardry VII: Crusaders of the Dark Savant (1992), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge (1990), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Wizardry V: Heart of the Maelstrom (1989), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Wizardry IV: The Return of Werdna (1988), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Wizardry III: Legacy of Llylgamyn (1986), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Wizardry II: The Knight of Diamonds (1985), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord (1981), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Nemesis: The Wizardry Adventure (1996), Virgin Interactive Entertainment, Inc.
Wizardry Gold (1996), Sir-tech Software, Inc.

Jagged Alliance 2: Unfinished Business (2000), Interplay Entertainment Corp.
Jagged Alliance 2 (1999), TalonSoft
Jagged Alliance: Deadly Games (1995), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Jagged Alliance (1994), Sir-tech Software, Inc.

Realms of Arkania Vol. 2: Star Trail (1994), Fantasy Productions Verlags
Realms of Arkania Vol. 1: Blade of Destiny (1991), , Fantasy Productions Verlags

Druid: Daemons of the Mind (1995), Sir-tech Software, Inc.
Freakin’ Funky Fuzzballs (1990), Sir-tech Software, Inc.

Brenda Brathwaite