Benjamin Berman is a software engineer based in San Francisco. He builds tools and platforms for games, film, and applied research, and has developed software for filmmakers, writers, and fine artists. Today, he is working on AppMana, Hidden Switch, and research projects in generative AI, image processing and language modeling.
co-founder and CTO of Scopely
Co-founder and chief technology officer of Scopely, in Las Vegas. The company he built is behind Monopoly GO! and the earlier mobile games in this list.
Scopely: Monopoly GO! generative art pipeline Dice with Buddies Mini Golf MatchUp Slots Vacation Wordly Skee-Ball (Scopely) Jewels (Scopely match-3 prototype, FVZB) MindShare
documentary filmmaker
Documentary filmmaker. The Thin Blue Line got a man off death row, The Fog of War won the Academy Award, and the Interrotron is his invention.
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? The Baskerville Experiment Demon in the Freezer The Unknown Known Global Meltdown
chief strategy and innovation officer at SpecialGuest
Chief strategy and innovation officer at SpecialGuest. At Meta he was global production and CS Labs innovation lead in the Creative Shop, where he founded CS Labs and put real-time rendering, machine learning and XR into brand campaigns. He was earlier chief technology officer at 1stAveMachine.
Hyundai IONIQ 5 Virtual Test Drive Nike LeBron XX Visa: FIFA Women's World Cup Nissan: E-Power Commonwealth Bank: Discovery Street Bonneville
filmmaker
Filmmaker. He directed App, Songs from the Tundra and The Volcano People, and writes for Hidden Switch games with Camille Stochitch.
App Songs from the Tundra Propaganda Tennis Monster Match Spellsource
writer
Writer. She writes with Alexander Berman, on his films and on Hidden Switch games.
developer and artist, real-time media
Developer and artist working in real-time interactive media and audiovisual machine learning, and a computer science doctoral candidate at Princeton. He co-built the First Group iPad apps, and his are the hands in the CTSS terminal.
Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? The First Group: The One Kempinski Abuja partyga.me
co-founder of AppMana
Engineer in Seattle and a co-founder of AppMana. He built the Spellsource server and client, and works on AppMana's client engagements. He also writes widely used open-source mods for Bloons TD 6.
game developer
Game developer in Germany, building Unity and VR software including industrial training simulators.
game designer and creative technologist
Game designer and creative technologist in San Francisco, a cloud advocate at Microsoft. She made Hello, Operator! at the MIT Media Lab and worked on the Venice exhibit for Holobiont Urbanism.
composer
Composer. He wrote the music for Spellsource and Monster Match.
food writer
Food writer in New York, published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, TASTE, NPR and Eater. She runs finance and administration at AppMana, and worked on the Safari Par-Tee design documents at Trigger XR.
designer and engineer, at Lovable
Designer and engineer, now at Lovable, previously at Meta, Spotify and Perkins&Will. He co-created Monster Match and was project lead and hive engineer on Holobiont Urbanism in the MIT Media Lab's Playful Systems group.
illustrator and animator
Illustrator and animator in Los Angeles, working in animation production on Bob's Burgers. The pixel art in these games is his.
engineer, co-founder of Mastra
Engineer at Workpop, now co-founder and chief technology officer of Mastra, the TypeScript agent framework. He was previously on the Gatsby team.
board game designer, running AnyRoom
Board game designer and product lead in San Francisco, now running AnyRoom. He founded the games company Playmake, and licenses board games to Hasbro in the United States and Sit Down Games in Europe.
artist, design professor at Weitzman
Artist and design professor at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Her work is speculative and often biological.
co-founder of Workpop
Co-founder and co-chief executive of Workpop. He went on to co-found Viddy and OK Play, and is now a co-founder of Gallery Ventures in New York.
life science investment, at Thiel Capital
Director of life science investments and data science at Thiel Capital in Los Angeles, and a director of Peptilogics and Ataraxis AI. He was a biomedical informatics scientist at the Knight Lab in San Diego.
product design lead
Product design and user-experience lead in Los Angeles, and Workpop's director of product. He later led design at Cornerstone OnDemand, ZipRecruiter and AuditBoard.
designer, tangible computing
Designer working in tangible computing, now lead design engineer at Nanotronics. He made AutomaTiles at the MIT Media Lab and sold it as Blinks through his company Move38 until 2022.
artist, open-source biology
Artist working in open-source biology, hormones and, lately, ecology and plastic pollution. They are artist in residence at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Network Medicine in Vienna.
co-founder of Workpop
Co-founder and co-chief executive of Workpop, now chief technology officer of the sports operations company Teamworks.
engineer, maker of Tunable
Engineer. He makes Tunable, a tuner and metronome used by more than a million musicians, through his studio AffinityBlue, and earlier built the Multitouch Mini and co-founded Community Core Vision. He is now an iOS engineer at Whatnot.
