Mippi Dork
Director Of Game Design at Unreal Source (Unreal Slackers)
New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMippi Dork is a seasoned game design leader with nearly two decades of cross-disciplinary experience, currently shaping new IPs as Director of Game Design at Mob Entertainment. Starting as a Sony PlayStation intern at age 12 and fast-tracking a Master’s in Game Design, Mippi has held senior roles across AAA studios, live-content teams, AR startups, and creative collaborations with artists like deadmau5. Known for blending technical art, systems design, and audience-first product thinking, they’ve led teams as Game Director, CTO, and creative director across games, film, and experiential projects. Mippi also authors "Mippi’s Handbook to Crafting Play" to pass on hard-won design lessons and runs Crafting Play to mentor the next generation. Based in New Orleans, they pair world-travel perspective with community-driven education work (Unreal Slackers), making them equally at home shipping polished gameplay or building learning ecosystems. An avid problem-solver, Mippi’s career is marked by pivoting between ambitious technical roles and hands-on creative leadership.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Game and Interactive Media Design, Master of Science - MS Game and Interactive Media Design at Full Sail UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Japanese, English
Github Skills (25)
css8
markdown7
javascript7
api7
knowledge-graph6
graph6
org-mode6
clojurescript5
clojure5
trello5
git5
privacy4
scriptable4
wysiwyg3
knowledge-management3
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
CatClawed/CatClawed
Apr 2023 - Apr 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
CatClawed/janky-website-scripts
Mar 2022 - Oct 2024
Contributions:4 pushes in 2 years 7 months
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