A little Bit
About us
Drinkbox Studios is a Canadian video game developer based in Toronto, Ontario. Best known for the Guacamelee! series, Drinkbox Studios also developed the award winning Severed, the alien platformer Mutant Blobs Attack, and their most recent Action RPG Nobody Saves the World.
Graham Smith
Co-Founder & Producer
Starting as a programmer at Pseudo Interactive and Silicon Knights, Graham co-founded Drinkbox, and now works as a Producer. Graham loves all kinds of games, but is completely disinterested in televised sports. (He still watches though because his wife makes him)
Chris Harvey
Co-Founder & Technical Lead
Chris Harvey is a Co-Founder and the Technical Director of Drinkbox Studios. He spends much of his time tackling difficult technical problems, and has ported the Drinkbox engine to over a dozen different platforms over the years. Chris is a Gemini, which implies that he's a social butterfly, but ACTUALLY means that zodiac astrological signs cannot accurately predict someone's personality
Ryan MacLean
Co-Founder & Producer
Ryan is one of the co-founders of Drinkbox and has been making games professionally for 20+ years. Lately he tends to find himself involved in usually-messy meetings re: narrative, music, bizdev, production and/or marketing. He put off writing this bio for as long as possible...
Michael Fattori
Programmer
Michael is a programmer at Drinkbox, working on audio, gameplay logic, abilities, and all sorts of stuff. They're really into Dragonball FighterZ, so don't get them started unless you want an earful about Adult Gohan's SICK LEG LOOPS!
Augusto 'Cuxo' Quijano
Art Director
Cuxo is the Art Director at Drinkbox, likes drawing characters, making up stories, and eating tacos. He gets to do 2 out of those 3 things most days!
Gabby DaRienzo
Senior Artist
Gabby is a Senior Artist at Drinkbox, creating environment art, designing UI/UX, and making marketing assets for our new game. She loves watching horror movies and baking, and her lifelong dream is to be one of those scary old ladies who lives in a haunted house.
Mauricio Castano
Artist
Mauricio is an artist at Drinkbox who's currently making animations for our new game. He wishes Mario Kart was an Olympic sport and hopes clumsiness one day can be considered a super power so he can join the Justice League
Ian Campbell
Lead Designer
Ian is the Lead Designer at Drinkbox. He's into baking, biking, bowling, and bvideo games -- especially action games, arcade games, and Smash Bros. His greatest dream is to learn how to make the perfect Tom Yum soup
Cass King
Designer
Cass is a designer at Drinkbox who's on an endless mission to play all the video/boardgames in his backlog. Boardgame cafes are his happy place. Currently in a long distance relationship with his Cat
Steele Xia
Designer
Steele is a game designer who works on many different parts of our new game. He is hard-working, never slacks off, is an insanely nice guy, and also VERY humble. Of course he did not write this bio himself because he's too busy getting his work done and he never trolls
Josh Davis
QA Tester & Assistant Producer
This is Josh, he’s a QA tester at Drinkbox. …or is he? Are any of us really, truly Josh? You should never judge a Josh by its cover. You know what they say: No pain... no Josh.
Josh also likes boardgames and gardening!
Vladimir Vatsurin
Programmer & QA Tester
"Well, well, well" says Vlad to himself each time prior to yet another bug hunting session. Coming from an industrial city near Ural Mountains in Russia, Vlad has always been seeking for information. How to speak with computers? Will there be Spore 2? Is Josh the Josh? Are Transformers real? One thing he knows for sure... the best is yet to come!
Matheus Meneguette
Artist
Matheus is an artist and animator at Drinkbox. He enjoys playing video games and is addicted to movies (especially suspense and horror) and loves making new costumes for Guacamelee whenever possible! His only wish is to keep making games that other people will enjoy playing as much as he enjoys creating them
Fred Duffield
Programmer
Fred is a Programmer at Drinkbox who is just happy to be here. He loves his tea, Muppets and woodworking. Often seen collecting furniture from the side of the road or rummaging through skips, Fred is doing his best
Greg Puzniak
Technical Artist
Greg is a Technical Artist from Poland, and then the US, and then Canada. He lives with more animals than you'd think. But not so many that it's weird or anything. Statistically speaking, he is cycling right now.
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