Patrick held Creative Director & Lead Level Designer roles at Runic Games, Gearbox Software, and now Monster Squad! Patrick was a key member in Borderlands creation and development, Torchlight I & II's level randomization, and the world building and level design of Hob.

At the age of 14, Patrick was once yelled at in public by a particular famous movie star for asking for an autograph, and is still scarred from it today.

John has been making games since he was a kid, and particularly likes the parts when things explode.

He made lots and lots of things explode in the action RPGs Mythos, Torchlight, and Torchlight 2. John then expanded his horizons while working on the adventure game Hob, creating traversal and AI systems that allowed the player to explore a rich world, interact with strange creatures, and make them explode.

Allen previously served as COO at Runic. Prior to that he was Director of Business Development at Perfect World where he helped forge numerous partnerships including Perfect World's early investment into Runic. With Runic, he planned global launches for Torchlight II and Hob, oversaw external development and release planning, and even did work that made it into shipped games!

Hello, my friend. Stay awhile and listen…

Barret has been bumbling around the labyrinth of game development for the last seven years since being let loose on the industry by The Guildhall at SMU. In his travels he has worked at developers you’ve heard of like Blizzard and Massive Entertainment, and tiny studios that don’t exist anymore. Along the way he has done everything from game design to technical design and implementation.

Barret can be hard to pin down when he emerges from the Dungeons of Design. Whether he’s climbing a rock or sailing a boat, he’s most in his element moving around, over, and through the outdoor world. Wherever he goes, he likes to bring along a band of merrymakers and you’ll rarely find him alone. If his companions are not of the adventuring spirit, Barret is also happy playing board games, hanging out in a park, or eating good food. On the rare occasion you encounter Barret alone and not passed out asleep, he will likely be reading a book or playing a video game (probably online with other people).

Richard began his game design journey competing with his brother, seeing who could build the best levels in games such as Doom 2 and Half-Life. As his passion for game-making grew, he decided to join up with several mod teams; most notably the Red Orchestra team for Unreal Tournament 2k3. They won Epic Games "Make Something Unreal" competition in 2004, which quickly jump-started the careers of everyone on the team.

It was time to turn the hobby into something more, and Richard joined up with Gearbox Software to work on the first game in the Brothers in Arms series, Road to Hill 30. He spent the next 13 years at Gearbox, working on the Brothers in Arms and Borderlands series and everything in between as both Level Designer and Cinematic Artist, helping craft those worlds through design and tell their stories through cinema.

Wes has been in the industry since 2004, making games on every platform from the Nokia NGage to current next gen systems. He was one of the first artists on Borderlands 2, and one of the last artists to finish the project. His claim to fame is being the artist trusted with modeling and texturing Tiny Tina, along with many of the enemies the player shoots throughout the game. He loves building interesting characters with heart!

On his off time, Wes loves to garden and fix his house, and will talk to you incessantly about his worm farm. It’s not gross, he says. We don’t believe him.

Garrett is a concept artist from the Seattle, Washington area; an area with an abundance of natural beauty that has a had a massive influence on his artwork. He has been working on game projects since 2012, usually as an illustrator, but was previously working as a concept artist at indie-dev studio, Naetyr, on an unreleased sci-fi MMO project called Fury. Garrett is passionate about building worlds that showcase interesting settings and characters with emotional depth.

In his free time, Garrett loves playing games, watching movies, drawing crazy stuff, pouring over art books, writing short biographies for websites, going for a nice stroll around Seward Park, and hanging out with his friends.

John Sheffield is a clip with all the keys. He is the World Matrix, the In-Between. John is the Inverse Kinematicist at the top of the Y axis, and nothing moves in this city until he wills it. He is undefined, but always evaluates True.

You open the door. The creak tells you you're the first to do so in years. Darkness flows out like ink in water, wrapping your legs, climbing your coat, filling the space. As you feel a twinge of panic at the imminence of drowning, you hear a long, hollow moan. A creature springs from the dark! It is human-like, but hunched, pale as death, and stricken with confusion and rage: a feral cave John Sheffield! Roll for initiative!

"Sept. 28. Continued hard travel. The last dog ran off, lost down some unexplored orifice. We are very hungry. The morning forage returned unsuccessful, confirming that no part of John Sheffield is edible. The reports were false! Damn all reports!"

Dex has over 60 dog years of industry experience and several shipped titles, making him by far the most experienced of any Monster Squad developer.