Team

Meet Igloosoft

Leadership

Rho Watson – ​Rhopunzel

Founder, Game Director
@Rhopunzel

Rho Watson is a game designer and pixel artist with over 10 years of experience in the "indie" side of the game industry. In 2019, Rho founded Igloosoft Games LLC to lead the development of a new sci-fi exploration game. Past work includes iconic 2D indie games such as Starbound, Gnomoria and RimWorld.

Development

Ben Grob - kiwibonga

Lead Developer
@kiwibonga

Ben hails from Montreal, Canada and has been active in the indie/homebrew scene for over two decades. His past work includes programming and design credits on such indie games as Ultimate Chicken Horse and RimWorld.

Colton Ramos

Programmer

Hello there 👋. I make games! I'm a guitarist, a soulslike fan, and have a minor obsession with trains and planes. Unity dev since ~2013. On the board of directors at Louisville Makes Games.

Kevin Roberson (aka Ikkir)

Programmer
@Ikkir_Isth

Ikkir is an oldschool gamer who started way back in the days of the Amiga. He enjoys working on deep colony simulations and has a thing for rpgs that he never has time to finish. Good games never get old.
Mastodon: @Ikkir

Mark Yamashita (aka Yama)

Programmer

Coding is life. Go Bears!

Kurt Taylor

Project Manager
@kurtataylor

Artist, Coder, and Designer. I straddle the boundaries between worlds, and unite them.

Art

Nino Werner

Art Director & Lead Artist
@HQ_PixelArtist

Antonio Craig - ​UnsubRedun

Pixel Artist

Antonio skills span both pixel art and 3DCG, with a keen eye on creating detailed environment and character assets to bring the game world to life.

Lesma

Pixel Artist
@pixe_lesma

Sebastian "Gruk" Marcjanek

Artist

I turn pixels into pictures somewhat resembling art. No idea how I got hired.

Christian "Crystan" Hoffmann

Audio Director
@sencrystan

Being active on and off in the game modding scene for almost two decades, Crystan worked on several modding and game projects as a sound designer.

Failpositive

Composer
@failpositive

Check out Failpositive at https://failpositive.com/

Daryl MacDonald

Writer
@MrDarylMac

Daryl is a writer from Scotland who grew up on Final Fantasy games and sci-fi movies. His involvement in this project came through his friendship with Rho and his passion for both writing and science fiction helped guide the world and characters of Farworld Pioneers.

Web

Joe Brennan - Hooligan

Web Developer
@existingrocks

Joe has worked with Rho on a couple of Global Game Jams and has always maintained an interest in game development. Credits his interest in web development to Sensor.

Sensor

Web Developer, Web Designer

Sensor has worked in web development for several years, developing new websites and maintaining existing ones.

Business

Alannah Gallagher

Marketing

Alannah is a creative marketing professional with more than 10 years experience in all aspects of marketing, branding, advertising, and graphic design. Her ability to quickly adapt has lead her to work globally in many industries including automotive, fashion and tech.

Kyle Bertea (Reaven)

Community Manager

Kyle has taken his training as a medical doctor and applied it to his interest in video gaming as Igloosoft’s community manager. He has been with Igloosoft since the start of Farworld Pioneers.

Gilbert “TT” Palau

Tester/PR

Github