Mark Lacroix
Director Game Designer at Freelance Director / Motion Artist
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMark LaCroix is a multidisciplinary game director and designer with 10+ years building indie games, tools, and a community ecosystem from Minneapolis through his studio Noble Robot. His work spans award-caliber game design (2026 IGF Grand Prize nominee Blippo+), console/PC/tabletop publishing, and boutique porting and micropublishing services for small developers. A former filmmaker and animator, Mark brings cinematic craft and visual storytelling to interactive projects—skills honed on MTV, Emmy-winning TV, and commercial clients like Target and UnitedHealth. He co-hosts the long-running Nice Games Club podcast and chairs Nice Games Alliance, running a zero-profit coworking space and programming that supports local indie devs and fundraising initiatives. That blend of creative practice, operational leadership, and community-first entrepreneurship makes him as comfortable shipping prototypes as running grants and events that sustain an indie scene.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Language and Literature, Sound + Vision: Media Studies, Bachelor of Arts (BA), English Language and Literature, Sound + Vision: Media Studies at University of Minnesota
English, html, css, actionscript 3.0, javascript, c#
Github Skills (56)
visual-studio-code10
electron10
microsoft10
typescript10
editor10
lua10
game-engine9
gameobject9
flash9
game-development9
guid9
starling-framework8
neko8
actionscript8
lime8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Mark-LaCroix/NobleTimer
Nov 2018 - May 2021
Contributions:10 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 6 months
NobleRobot/NobleEngine
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
A li'l game engine for Playdate.
Contributions:5 reviews, 83 commits, 34 PRs in 1 year 5 months
game-engineplaydategame-engine-2dluagame-development
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