Josh Sutphin
Principal Designer at Shiraki Press
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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SeniorJosh Sutphin is a Principal Designer and veteran game developer with over a decade of experience leading technical design, gameplay engineering, and interdisciplinary teams for AAA and indie titles. He has driven architecture, tooling, and best practices at studios like Bungie and RED Interactive, contributing to commercial hits such as Warhawk, Starhawk, and Destiny as well as indie projects like Legacy of the Elder Star. Comfortable in C/C++, C#, Lua, Python, Unity and Unreal, he blends hands-on engineering with design leadership to improve efficiency, stability, and player experience at scale. As co-founder and design lead at Shiraki Press, he applies his typographic and layout skills to hopepunk fiction while managing covers, artist commissions, and marketing. He’s known for solving hard technical-producibility problems—shipping networked multiplayer and VR systems with zero major launch bugs—and for mentoring teams to adopt scripting and tooling that boost designer productivity. Outside games, he writes horror and hopepunk fiction, bringing a creative storytelling perspective to interactive systems and publishing.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
English
Github Skills (47)
runtimes10
game-dev10
sublime10
spine10
sublime-text9
animation9
javascript9
markdown9
eslint9
skeletal-animation9
feed9
textmate9
2d9
ecmascript8
game-development8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
kickbomb/SpineAutoImport
Jun 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
invicticide/fractive
Sep 2017 - Feb 2019
Fractive is a free, open-source, Markdown-based hypertext authoring tool for writing interactive fiction.
Contributions:193 commits, 21 PRs, 121 pushes in 1 year 5 months
authoring-toolauthoringhypertextinteractive-fictionmarkdown
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