Summary
Ziba Scott is a Boston-based founder and independent game developer with 12 years of experience creating award-winning and socially minded games, including BAFTA-winning Kind Words and its 2024 follow-up. She combines hands-on design and engineering鈥攕hipping titles across PC, console, iOS, and Xbox鈥攚ith contract work for studios like Harmonix and academic partners on serious games. Her background spans large-scale client/server development and tooling from work at the University of Michigan and enterprise-focused systems earlier in her career, giving her a rare mix of interactive design sensibility and robust backend engineering. Trained in Serious Game Design (M.A.) and computer science (B.S.), she often explores game concepts beyond entertainment while still embracing playful, experimental projects.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
M.A., Serious Game Design, M.A., Serious Game Design at Michigan State University
B.S., Computer Science, B.S., Computer Science at University of Chicago