DRINKBOX STUDIOS - Key Persons


Augusto 'Cuxo' Quijano

Job Titles:
  • Concept Lead
Cuxo is the Concept Lead at Drinkbox, likes drawing characters, making up stories, and eating tacos. He gets to do 2 out of those 3 things most days!

Cass King

Job Titles:
  • 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

Chris Harvey - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • 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

Daniel Korn

Job Titles:
  • Senior QA Tester & Assistant Producer
Daniel is a Senior Tester and Assistant Producer at Drinkbox. When he's not investigating bugs like some sort of tech Poirot, he likes drums, fighting games, model kits, and thinking way too much about Dragon Ball

Gabby DaRienzo

Job Titles:
  • 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.

Graham Smith - Founder

Job Titles:
  • 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)

Ian Campbell

Job Titles:
  • 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 lean how to make the perfect Tom Yum soup

Igor Hatakeyama

Job Titles:
  • QA Tester
Igor is a QA Tester who loves to make his own games on his spare time. He also enjoys fishing, cooking and playing instruments, mostly drums and bass. His dearest memory is partying with Suda51 once

Jace Hijazi

Job Titles:
  • QA Tester
QA extraordinaire/game dev generalist Jace is on the hunt for bugs! In his spare time he can be found at a local punk show, playing too many video games, doing pixel art, or scouring the darkest corners of the internet for some obscure new electronic music genre that only 15 people have heard of. He sings (screams) in a band sometimes, loves horror and arthouse films, writes media reviews, will most likely beat you at Smash Bros, and is definitely the best person to ask for music recommendations.

Josh Davis

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Producer
  • QA Tester
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.

Kyle Hunter

Job Titles:
  • Programmer
  • Programmer & QA Intern
Kyle is a Programmer & QA Tester with a passion for problem solving and an equal interest in testing his sanity by trying to understand every part of an equation. To (somewhat) regain a balance, he would either swing a giant axe against wyverns in Monster Hunter, or deliver pizzas & connect people in Death Stranding

Matheus Meneguette

Job Titles:
  • Artist
  • Artist and Animator
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

Mauricio Castano

Job Titles:
  • 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

Michael Fattori

Job Titles:
  • 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!

Penelope Mayers

Job Titles:
  • Bookkeeper
  • Office Manager
Penelope is the bookkeeper and Everything Office Related person at Drinkbox. She loves cooking and going to the beach (even though she's allergic to the sun)

Ryan MacLean - Founder

Job Titles:
  • 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...

Steele Xia

Job Titles:
  • 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

Steph Goulet

Job Titles:
  • Art Director
Steph is Drinkbox's Art Director and resident bad pun enthusiast (no, he's not a dad... unless 6 cats count?) When he's not busy making our games purdy, he can be found chainsaw carving in his backyard which is a perfectly normal hobby that perfectly normal people do...

Vladimir Vatsurin

Job Titles:
  • QA Tester
"Well, well, well" says Vlad to himself each time prior to yet another bug hunting session, working as QA Tester. Coming from an industrial city near Ural Mountains in Russia, Vlad have 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!