Overview

Gender

male

Developer and designer of independent and for hire videogames and software tools. Projects include:

ToneHenge, immersive AR experience for Niantic - 2018

The Hunger Games: Girl on Fire - 2012 (iOS) Lionsgate,

Hot Throttle - 2011 (Flash) Adult Swim,

Tap Tap Revenge series - 2008-2014 (iOS)

Collaborator on projects with Cactus (Hotline Miami), Adam Saltsman (Canabalt), Danny Baranowsky (Super Meat Boy, Binding of Isaac), Alec Holowka (Aquaria).

Maintained a 6 year correspondence with Roger Ebert on the subject of Videogames as Art: http://doomlaser.com/misc/ebert-games-art.txt

Personally responsible for Ebert's prognostication in a 2010 column, Video Gamea Can Never be Art: http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/video-games-can-never-be-art
(look for the name drop in the second paragraph)

And, hopefully, played a small part in his eventual reversal: http://www.rogerebert.com/rogers-journal/okay-kids-play-on-my-lawn

Mark's games are taught in curriculum at universities and have been exhibited internationally, featured in television stories on PBS, and ARTE TV's Tracks in Europe.