Chris is the founder of Brave Lighthouse LLC and the HomeTeam GameDev community. His experience includes technical game design for EA, prototyping at Will Wright's R&D company, engine design with a start-up, developing a top-selling mobile game, and speaking at conferences. He's released over 150 podcast interviews, does coding demonstrations viewed by millions, and 300,000 students use his online courses. Outside his company, Chris is IndieCade's alumni lead, speaks and volunteers with high schools, recently chaired IGDA LA’s board, and teaches rapid game prototyping part-time at Northeastern University.

H is a professional software engineer and is the founder of Renegade Applications, LLC. He started making games in 2012, publishing games for the iOS App Store and itch.io, including four with HomeTeam. He has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, a Masters degree in Engineering Management, another in National Security and Strategic Studies, and is pursuing a post-baccalaureate in Applied Computer Science.

Christer has been a freelance game developer since 1993. He has shipped dozens of games, created the 1 Game A Month movement (#1GAM), and has published three books. Christer is our Expert Teammate at HomeTeam, helping members learn by overcoming challenges in community projects, contributing example demonstrations, and providing a second professional's perspective.

Alex MN is a professional writer and narrative designer with a diverse background in games journalism, art and education. She's an active writer with the Beyond Skyrim modding community and strongly believes in the power of collaboration. As a graduate of The Narrative Department and a credentialed teacher, Alex is excited to help others develop their game writing and narrative skills, especially when it comes to environmental storytelling in level design.

Chase is a freelance game composer and speaker with 9 years of industry experience. He's composed for nearly 20 games, including Jurassic Park VR, I Can’t Escape Darkness, Cubic Climber, Super Happy Fun Block, Aground, and Potions Please. Chase received AA's in both Audio Engineering as well as Music Theory and Composition, in addition to a BM in Media Composition. He grew up in Chicago and currently resides in Los Angeles, collecting physical retro games as a hobby. Chase co-hosts the Game Audio Hour podcast.

Victoria is a technical artist with a widereaching background in games, film, and mixed reality. Her past work has ranged from indie games to large scale productions including both the cozy multiplayer game Palia and the television series Obi-Wan Kenobi. Additionally, she has previously developed curriculum for multiple Unreal Engine university courses. Victoria especially loves helping others with blueprints and optimization. She’s available for assistance with general game development in Unreal as well as in-engine tool development.

Kartik has a degree in Computational Media from Georgia Tech, and is the founder/CEO of Finite Reflection Studios. Throughout his college and professional career he has worked on over 20 games and has spent the past 5 years refining his approach to UI design and implementation. He has given talks at various conferences regarding UI design and hopes to continue sharing and refining his knowledge base. He lives in Atlanta and has two cats named Zuko and Azula.

Karen has been making games and teaching game development for nearly 20 years. Her projects have ranged from AAA blockbusters for entertainment (Age of Mythology, Halo Wars) to tiny game demos showing math in action (Pythagorean Paparazzi). Millions have played her game levels and she has taught hundreds of in-person game development classes. She studied Architecture at Texas A&M University, but was quickly lured away into games. Her favorite level design tip: cultivate curiosity - notice something new in your environment every day.

Tyler is a game developer and 3D modeler for games. He lives in central Illinois with his wife and 4 kiddos. Since joining HomeTeam in 2019, he has contributed to more than a dozen games, been a Game Changer for 13 quarters, led three Unity projects, and also led our first Unreal 5 game, RoboHunters. Tyler’s focus is on 3D modeling and art asset production. He is available to assist with any part of the 3D pipeline, including modeling, rigging, animating, UV mapping, baking, texturing, and finally integration back into Unity, Godot, or Unreal. Tyler has experience with Blender, ZBrush, Substance Painter, and Substance Designer, in addition to general Unreal 5 development, and can help get you familiarized with the software, techniques, and process.

Liz is an Emmy award-winning designer who has been working in the design industry for 13 years, ten of which have been in the field of UX design. She has worked as the UX lead on games for Turner Sports, Cartoon Network, the NBA and FanDuel. In addition to her day job, Liz is the co-founder of Laserblast Studios, working as a game designer and pixel artist on the indie game Thin Ice. She lives in Atlanta with her pets, husband and many plants.

Kyle is a mainframe systems programmer by day, but began programming by making games as a hobbyist in the 90s. He's practiced a variety of coding environments, but these days is focused on Godot—an open source, beginner friendly, yet powerful alternative to engines like Unity or Unreal. In HomeTeam Kyle helps members learn to solve problems in Godot. (Godot is a recent addition to HomeTeam, but we still also have projects in Unity C# and browser JS!)

Randy Tan began as a consistent collaborator in HomeTeam for years, contributing to 30 HomeTeam projects. He now officially helps provide added support to fill in on projects. Professionally he's also had a key role in developing business training simulations, including ones used by PepsiCo and Nestlé, and commercial game development experience on branded promotional games (for a pet food company) and a game for the Central Bank of Malaysia's museum. As his day job, Randy Tan serves as the CTO of Gameka, where's he working on app, game, and full stack web development, organizing lines of communication, automating routine tasks, and steering the business away from risks in chasing hype or fads. He's proud to have taken part in numerous game jams over the years.

Jonas is a freelance software engineer with a master's degree in computer science. He is the lead programmer of Subnautica, a speaker at various conferences including GDC, and also runs a workshop on game development best practices. Jonas specializes in performance optimization, maintainability, refactoring, and code reviews.

Jeremy began making games in 2014 using PyGame, which led to a career change into programming. He's developed systems for the community to simplify new member onboarding, chat moderation, and various backend automation. Highly involved with the community since it began, Jeremy has pitched and led over half a dozen released team games made in either HTML5/JS or Unity/C#.

Rob has spent 12 years in Career Services, primarily in the tech and gaming industries. 11 of those were at Full Sail University working with students, alumni and industry partners. He found a passion helping people understand the importance of good professional demeanor, helping them hone their networking and communication skills. Rob has a special arrangement with HomeTeam to meet with advanced members about career development.

In 2005 Jake went full-time indie and formed Grey Alien Games. 13 years later he has more than ten games under his belt including Shadowhand and Regency Solitaire for PC/Mac. He has experience with every stage of the development process from design and implementation to testing and localisation. Jake meets with advanced members to set and review goals toward making commercial games as an indie developer.