Pat King holds a BA in Music Business from Indiana University Southeast. He began his career as a composer, performer and audio engineer for music, voiceover, film, animation and games. In 2007, Pat began working at Paul Hake Productions as an audio engineer, designer and producer for numerous casual game titles. In 2009, the studio merged with Golden Goose Games to form HitPoint Studios, where Pat continued his various roles between production, sound and game design. In 2014, he founded Woodpenny, a digital & physical game development studio that makes wooden board games that you play with a penny (hence the name) as well as digital games and media content. At HitPoint, Pat designed and produced the award winning games The Secrets of Arcelia Island and AXE MotoX. He was the lead designer for Disney Fairies Hidden Treasures (Episode 1), Build-a-lot: Elizabethan Era and produced the online social game Seaside Hideaway. Pat was lead sound designer for Adera (Ep1), Disney Fairies Hidden Treasures (Ep 2-5) and Disney's Little Mermaid Undersea Treasures. At Woodpenny, Pat has led the studio to develop a series of brand interactive mobile games, sound design for a DreamWorks How To Train Your Dragon 2 promotional mobile game and launched a VR animated music video for the celebrated cellist, Ben Sollee. In July 2014, Pat co-founded the Pioneer Valley Game Developers, a group of game development enthusiasts in Western Massachusetts with over 300 members. In the Spring of 2016, Pat taught an Interdisciplinary Game Studio course to a team of 19 students at Hampshire College.In 2017, Pat partnered with Paul Hake to open 'Another Castle', a co-working space for game developers located in Greenfield, Massachusetts.