Christopher Barney Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

Teaching game design at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Ongoing research into the development and use of Game Design Patterns in education and practical development. Directing the student-driven game studio and game studio lab.

Boston, MA, US

Visiting Assistant Professor of Game Design in the GAME and GSND programs at Northeastern University.

Boston, MA, US

Teaching the Exploratory Concept Design course for the Masters in Game Science and Design program in the College of Arts, Media and Design.

Boca Raton, FL, US

I was recently signed by CRC Press to write a Game Design book tentatively titled 'Pattern Languages for Game Design'. The book is about using Christopher Alexanders concept of Pattern Languages as a framework for understanding and teaching game design principles. I will be completing the manuscript over the next year with a publication date in 2021.

London, GB

One of the largest and most closely knit groups of Video Game development professionals in the industry. Also the best run, most effective and positive group I have ever been a part of. Nominally this group helps to run the Game Developers Conference, and they do indeed to that better than any other conference staff in the world. But beyond that this group.

London, GB

Presented the talk "Turning 100,000,000 Friends into Game Developers: User Generated Content in Poptropica" at the 2015 Game Developers Conference Europe. Talk available at www.gdcvault.com

London, GB

I was selected to speak at the 2013 Game Developers Conference. I gave a talk titled '100,000,000 Friends You Can Never Know: Adding COPPA Compliant Social Networking to Poptropica'​GDCVault Recording: http://www.gdcvault.com/play/1017752/100-Million-Friends-You-Can

London, GB

Core Concepts Session covering the basics of Game Design Patterns related to my Pattern Language for Game Design Book. Talk is available on the GDC Vault.

Washington, DC, US

New York, NY, US

PHP/MySQL server side API development for internal translations management website.React/Redux/Axios/Ant based front end for translations management website.

Redmond, WA, US

I spoke on the 'Diversity Tools and Takeaways' panel at PaxDev ( http://dev.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/diversity-tools-and-takeaways ) as well as on the 'Yes, This is a Diversity 101 Panel. Yes, You Still Need It.' ( http://west.paxsite.com/schedule/panel/yes-this-is-a-diversity-101-panel.-yes-you-still-need-it )

Hürth, Nordrhein-Westfalen, DE

I spoke on 'The Culture of the Gaming Industry' panel as well as delivering a talk titled 'Why you need diversity in your games'.

Full lamp stack web development. We used mysql stored procedures heavily and had a very large complex code base. During my time there we implemented a new Ampersand based front end, created a user to user matching game and implemented a video sharing service similar to youtube.

Delivered a talk titled "Put Down Your Gun: Video Games as Engines of Social Capital" (2013)Delivered a talk titled "Why You Need Diversity in Your Games" (2017)

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Working on both the back end technology and game design of the Poptropica MMO, Funbrain educational games website and associated mobile apps. Primary technical and game designer for Poptropica: Friends, social networking features for PoptropicaMobile Designer for FunBrian Math Arcade mobile app.

London, GB

Working on both the back end technology and game design of the poptropica.com MMO

Delivered a talk titled "The Nature and Purpose of Games: Toward Social Justice"

Chestnut Hill, MA, US

Worked on Drupal based internal websites and other PHP/MySQL projects

Production of HTML, JavaScript, ActionScript, and Content Management System for advertising content.

Oslo, NO

I worked as a member of the 'Advisors of Rubi-Ka'​ a player based volunteer organization which performed community management and live events functions for FunCom's game Anarchy Online. Over my time there I moved from basic customer service to acting in live events and eventually to writing and running events and writing persistent in game characters..

Boston, MA, US

Implemented a well planned object oriented back end for a learning and assessment website.

I wrote more that 10 scripts and numerous interactive vignettes for a historical/Arthurian fair. I also acted in the productions filling roles from the lead villain to the comic relief. Each year the fair drew from 10,000 to 30,000 attendees.

Azusa, CA, US

Managed a team of ~25 interns implementing the universities externally facing website.

Ms, Computer Science

Ba, Computer Science / Sociology