Part 4: Who's Involved

At TruPlay, we aspire to make something different. To create content that reveals God‘s truth while also being awesome. 

We believe the most significant thing lacking in our culture today is God‘s Truth. And for that to change, people have to engage in it. But in 2021, with all the myriad of content choices available, if you want to make something engaging, it better be awesome. 

And if you’ve ever been part of building a product before, you know that to build awesome things, you need awesome people. 

God has provided a tremendous army for us: 

• Hank Stringer, Head of Recruiting:  Author and International speaker with 40+ years experience recruiting top tech talent in and to Austin, a former Sr. Recruiter at Dell, a Founder of Hire.com, and Co-Founder of multiple Recruiting Tech Companies.
• Casey Fisher, Senior Operations Advisor:  11+ years as an Apple Executive, twice a Regional CEO of PE-backed businesses with 600M+ revenue, Global Business Development Leader of $4B business, and Interim Executive focused on Start-Up Companies.
• Rossanna Ryan, Head of Marketing:  10+ years of Marketing experience, most notably successful as the former Global Head of Product Marketing for the Xbox Platform and the Director of Marketing (GM) launching Playstation in Latin America. 
• Herve Gomez, Executive Producer:  15+ years experience in game development, production, and overseeing product planning and prioritization for the global product roadmap, Product Owner/Senior Producer at LeapFrog Enterprises, and VP of Game Development at Square Panda. 
• Doug Mills, Head of Product Design:  7+ years game industry experience in Design, Production, and Project Management, Game Designer for over a dozen Christian games, and creative writing/collaboration expertise. As the core team of Lightside, Doug Mills, Kara Boyce, Jenni Joseph, and myself, we have released Christian games reaching over 7 million people with high engagement retention in monetization metrics. 
• Blair Majcina, CFO:  12+ years in VC and Finance, facilitated $1B+ of investment transactions.
• Adam Fenton, Art Director:  former Senior Concept Artist (Epic Mickey 2, The Bourne Conspiracy, Upper Deck U, Brawlhalla) resulting in 20+ years experience with AAA developers (Nintendo, Disney, Activision).
• Mark Webster, Lead Game Designer:  13+ years experience in Game Design, former Senior Game Designer for Vicarious Visions (Skylanders) and Santa Monica Studio (Sony). 
• Alice Mills, Lead Game Story Writer:  Creative Writing Professor for nearly three decades, distinguished public speaker, and Faith blogger with over 1.5M readers.
• Paul Schwanz, Game Designer:  14+ years experience in Game Design, former Game Designer at Nintendo, including games like Donkey Kong Country: Tropical FreezeStar Wars: The Force Unleashed II, and Thor: God of Thunder
• Jason Tilley, Game Writer:  20+ years as a Storyteller whose writing in Christian ministry (Elevate, One Hope) has reached over 500M children.
• Melissa Bianco, Producer:  15+ years game industry experience in Design and Production, former producer at Crystal Dynamics (Marvel’s Avengers) and Paragon (City of Heroes).
• Bea Rosenhauch, Head of HR:  17+ years in HR in biotech, oil and gas, and ministries, and former Director of HR at Pine Cove camp. 
• Kyle Phillips, Recruiting Specialist:  considerable experience with hiring in multiple start-ups and deeply involved with his family-run charity serving 100k+ children annually in hospitals.
• Nadia Barada, Recruitment Assistant:  3 years in Human Resources and former Executive Assistant at Pine Cove.

Advisors like 

• Jason DeLong: Current VP & Studio GM at Jam City, former Group GM at Zynga and Studio Head at Electronic Arts; 20+ years in Game Production (Need for Speed, James Bond, SKATE, Farmville, Wizard of Oz, Willy Wonka, and Harry Potter)
• Mark McClain: Founder and CEO of Sailpoint (SAIL), Founder and CEO of Waveset (acq’d by Sun).
• Jim Greenwood:  President and CEO of VisionSource, Executive Chairman of Retina Consultants of America, and CEO of Concentra.
• Karl Rauscher:  Executive Director, Network Reliability & Security, Bell Labs, Founder and President of Wireless Emergency Response Team, and Vice-Chairman of the U.S. Nat’l Security Telecom Committee.
• Rudy Garza, Strategic Advisor:  25+ years in Venture Capital, involved in the syndication of $360M from leading firms, multiple companies in portfolio bought by Fortune 500 members, Founder and Managing Partner of G51 Capital Management investor in FlashParking, IconBuild, and SaturnFive.

We represent diverse abilities, but we are unified in our enthusiasm about our mission and the opportunity to see things change for our children. We strive toward the betterment of the next generation rather than just the exploitation of them. 

If this passion is something you share, we would love to have you talk to us. We’re hiring for level designers, producers, product managers, engineers, team leaders, animators, UX designers, level designers, game designers, and many other roles.

1. Part 1: the Problem
2. Our method
3. Plugging in my old Nintendo
4. Video Games, God, and Redemption
5. Why Good Writing Matters (and Jack Bauer)
6. Personal Culture
7. Empowering Creatives
8. Empowering Creatives Pt 2
9. Where do Children Find Hope? (and the Challenger Documentary)
10. What are they really watching?