video game maker - coder to designer to founder
Hey, I'm Steve Bennett.
I'm a video game maker. I've been in games since 2007. I started as a coder, then a designer, all the way through to founding and leading companies with some occasional angel investing more recently.
What I love the most is building games and companies with great people, working together to make ideas reality.
Co-founder of Wild Man Games. We're making our first game Haggle: A Medieval Tycoon Simulator. I do the biz and design. On LinkedIn I call that CEO, but nowhere else. We build managementy simy strategy games for Steam.
Some time off with my family and some time to dream.
Co-founder and COO at The Multiplayer Group, which we sold in mid 2019, and I left in mid 2022, it's a great company, loads of fun working there with brilliant people and amazing clients.
Co-founder and Creative Director at Super Punk Games (and on the board at App-Crowd), brilliant fun, we made The Last Leviathan on Steam and Just Deal With It! for PS4. We also did lots of work-for-hire for great companies like Payload Studios, Dovetail Games + more.
Co-founder and Designer Bigfoot Games, we did a couple of cool iOS games - Glyph and Hidden Treasures.
Co-founder and Product Director at Inspire Technologies where we developed some excellent micro and long-form blogging platforms. Raised some seed money and went for it.
Lead Designer on MMOs at Monumental Games. This was my first games job. I started as a coder, then moved into design.
During my mature degree I co-founded Riot Kid. We made J2ME games and apps for phones, and tried to invent WhatsApp before it existed.
I was a producer, writer and engineer in the music industry, one of the projects I worked on was nominated for a Latin Grammy. Here's my Discogs.
Games, companies, AI, investing. If any of that overlaps with what you're up to, say hello.