Robin Hunicke

Robin Hunicke is an American video game designer and producer, born on March 15, 1973. She is currently a professor of game design at UC Santa Cruz and is the co-founder of Funomena. Hunicke began her career at Electronic Arts, where she worked on games like MySims as Lead Designer and Boom Blox and its sequel as a Producer. She then joined thatgamecompany and produced the critically acclaimed online cooperative game, Journey. After leaving thatgamecompany, Hunicke joined Tiny Speck to develop the social MMORPG Glitch, before co-founding Funomena with Martin Middleton. Funomena's projects include Wattam, directed by Keita Takahashi, and Luna, a tactile game experience.