Brian Burton
Associate Professor And Lead Faculty Of Digital Entertainment - Game Dev And Virtual Production
Abilene, Texas, United States
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Top SchoolBrian Burton is an experienced educator, author, and entrepreneur who has spent decades building academic programs and commercial projects at the intersection of game design, virtual production, and mobile/VR development. As Associate Professor and Lead Faculty of Digital Entertainment at Abilene Christian University he created a nationally ranked undergraduate game design major and teaches across game engines, cinematic production, mobile apps, and graduate seminars. He founded Burtons Media Group to publish textbooks, apps, and games—authoring multiple practical guides on Corona SDK, Unity, and Amazon Lumberyard—and continues to ship educational products and titles like Dragon Wars. Holding an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and advanced degrees in CIS and education, he combines scholarship with hands-on development and online pedagogy. Notably, his career bridges K–12 online school leadership from the 1990s to modern university program building, showing a long-term commitment to evolving digital learning.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Masters, Computer Information Systems, Masters, Computer Information Systems at Missouri State UniversityB.S., Sec. Ed/MIS/CS, B.S., Sec. Ed/MIS/CS at Abilene Christian UniversityMIS, MIS at Ball State UniversityUniversity of Missouri
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Github Skills (5)
coronasdk6
sqlite6
mesh1
blender1
animation1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
drburton/Multiplayer-2D-Colyseus-with-unity
Aug 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:33 commits, 31 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
drburton/Lua-for-Lumberyard
Feb 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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