Welcome to the personal website for Ben Miller: graduate student at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center and game designer.
I am currently working as a game designer at Insomniac Games (on Coop while I finish graduate school) where I am continuing work that I started in the summer when I worked there as a design intern.
In my spare time, I am working as an independent game developer at iiii design, a company I helped create that focuses on exploring the new areas of meaningful play on mobile devices. We are currently developing Move It! for the iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices and I am working as producer, co-designer, and co-programmer.
Feel free to view my portfolio by navigating through the menu above or contact me with any questions, criticisms, or compliments via email: BenMiller45 at gmail.com.
Short Bio
I first fell in love with videogames when I played River Raid on the Atari 2600 at the tender age of five. Since that moment, I have followed the videogame industry passionately and pursued a career in game design for as long as I can remember.
Along the way, I studied English and Computer Science at the University of Virginia where I learned to merge my love for literature and the fine arts with videogames. I believe that videogames hold the potential to become truly great works of art and I don't mind one bit if you make fun of me for it.
I'm currently at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center pursuing a Masters of Entertainment Technology where I focus on game design.
In my previous life I was a project manager for a small software developer that creates educational and medical software to help treat infant heart disease, a web developer, a breakdancer, freelance animator, and a skateboarder (not necessarily in that order).
When I'm not creating, researching, and studying videogames/game design, I am usually reading Greek tragedy or comedy, modernist literature, criticizing any media I come across, or hanging out with good friends.
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