Summary
Ryan Dunnison is a game designer, founder and multidisciplinary creator with 11 years of experience building systems, economies and prototypes for live and indie games across mobile, console and experimental installations. As director of Playful Fox Games he leads a small team shipping console/PC projects and retro tie-in mobile titles, while founding the Canadian Video Game Museum to research and exhibit national game history through mixed-media installations. He blends hands-on systems and level design with production leadership and analytics-driven iteration—experience sharpened at studios like BANDAI NAMCO and East Side Games—plus a background teaching game design at post-secondary institutions. A dual Canada–US citizen who travels for conferences, he also mentors indie teams and experiments with rapid Unity prototypes and nostalgia-driven hardware tie-ins. Not immediately obvious: he pairs formal graduate study in digital media with practical live-ops and small-team production chops, making him equally comfortable in research, curation and shipping playable products.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Game Art and Design, Diploma, Game Art and Design at Art Institute of Vancouver
Shaugnessy Elementary
General Arts and Sciences, General Arts and Sciences at Langara College
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Kitsilano Secondary
TREK Outdoor Education Program, TREK Outdoor Education Program at Prince of Wales Secondary
Master's degree, Digital Media, Master's degree, Digital Media at Centre for Digital Media
English, Spanish