Steven Ball
Chief Executive Officer at AlwaysGeeky Games
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Ball is a seasoned games technology leader and founder with 12 years of professional experience building high-performance game systems and online services. As CEO and Founder of AlwaysGeeky Games in Montreal he is focused on Web3 and blockchain-enabled gaming, bringing player-owned digital assets and a player-controlled economy to life with the studio’s tactical RPG Voxie Tactics. Previously he spent a decade at Ubisoft architecting scalable, highly available RESTful services that supported many flagship titles, blending hands-on engineering with team leadership. Early career roles at Electronic Arts gave him deep gameplay, frontend and console experience across multiple shipped titles, grounding his product instincts in real shipping constraints. He holds an MSc in Games Programming and a BSc in Computer Science, and combines academic game-specialized training with pragmatic production experience driving novel business models in games. Notably, he’s turned enterprise-grade live services expertise toward emerging blockchain mechanics—an uncommon bridge between AAA online systems and player-ownership game design.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at Loughborough UniversityMSc Games Programming, MSc Games Programming at University of Hull
English, French
Github Skills (26)
vulkan10
unix10
windows10
linux10
voxel-engine10
macos10
opengl-es10
opengl10
magicavoxel10
minetest9
voxel9
engine9
rest-api8
game-development8
api8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
AlwaysGeeky/Vox
Oct 2015 - Aug 2021
Voxel Engine and Voxel Game Development
Contributions:14 PRs, 1160 pushes, 7 branches in 5 years 10 months
gamedevmagicavoxelminetestgame-developmentvoxels
AlwaysGeeky/Vogue
May 2016 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 release, 111 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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