Robin Hunicke Biography

Robin Hunicke is an American video game designer and producer and co-founder of Funomena and is also finishing a PhD in Computer Science at Northwestern University where she is researching artificial intelligence and game design. Robin began her career at Electronic Arts where she worked on multiple games including MySims as Lead Designer and Boom Blox and its sequel as a Producer. After leaving EA she was hired by thatgamecompany where she produced Journey an online cooperative game for the PlayStation 3. After its completion Robin joined Tiny Speck to develop the social MMORPG Glitch teaming with Katamari Damacy creator and friend Keita Takahashi. Prior to the release of Glitch she left Tiny Speck to found Funomena together with Martin Middleton former teammate and engineer at thatgamecompany. In 2012 Funomena announced their first project: to build a game that takes data from a pedometer and does something fun with it. Aside from her work on video games Robin is recognized in the industry for her support of independent game development experimentation in game design research in dynamic difficulty adjustment and the advocacy of women within the games industry.

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