Ira Leon Fay

I am currently a Game Designer at Electronic Arts, specifically working within the Pogo division. I most recently completed a popular bingo game called Bingo Luau, and before that I worked on a word game called Tumble Bees, which is a mix of Tetris and Boggle. I'm currently working on an unannounced game which will release sometime around March 2008.

Prior to Pogo, I worked on an X-Men game at Z-Axis (owned by Activision) in the San Francisco bay area.

In May 2004, I graduated with a Masters degree from the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University. Feel free to check out the fun projects that go on there. I worked on:

Jam-O-Drum (Spring 2004), a multiplayer audio-visual gaming table for four players.
BioHazard (Spring 2003), a real-time 3D simulation designed to train firefighters how to respond to a chemical attack in a mall, using the Unreal Engine.
Dinosaurs Alive (Fall 2002), an audience interactive exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in a five-screen panoramic theater using a real-time 3D engine, video capture, and 7 networked computers.

During the Summer of 2003, I worked as an intern at Disney VR Studios, programming on ToonTown Online, a massively multiplayer game for kids. In Fall 2003, I did a co-op at Maxis (makers of The Sims, SimCity, etc.) as a producer for The Sims 2.

I spend most of my free time swing dancing, playing Ultimate Frisbee, and of course playing games.

Feel free to contact me.