James Kotzian
Founder at Little Ghost Games
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Kotzian is a founder and senior game designer with 11 years of industry experience, currently running Little Ghost Games in San Francisco to make genre-defying, meaningful indie titles. Previously a Senior Game Designer III at Deep Silver Volition, he led mission design for Saints Row DLC and shipped core mission content and playable agents across major AAA projects. He combines systems thinking from a computer science background with hands-on scripting and iteration, comfortable moving between high-level design and production implementation. Known for playful, subversive mechanics—like a mobile puzzle that inverts Match-3 conventions—he brings a pro-diversity lens to game ideas and a track record of shipping both indie and large-scale games.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at University of Michigan
Github Skills (3)
facebook-sdk9
facebook7
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jkotzian/jkotzian.github.io
Aug 2015 - Dec 2022
jkotzian.com
Contributions:56 commits, 85 pushes in 7 years 5 months
jkotzian/little-ghost-games-site
Oct 2018 - Oct 2022
Contributions:21 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 1 month
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