Nick Fortugno

Teaches at Made in NY Media Center by IFP

Nick Fortugno is a designer of digital and real-world games and co-founder of the game company Playmatics. Fortugno has been designer, writer, and project manager on dozens of games, serving as lead designer on the downloadable blockbuster Diner Dash, the award-winning serious game Ayiti: The Cost of Life, the CableFAX award winning Breaking Bad: The Interrogation, as well as games with Disney, AMC, the Red Cross/Crescent, World Bank, PBS, CPB, NYPL, and USAID. Nick is co-founder of the Come Out and Play street games festival since 2006, and teaches game design and interactive narrative design at Parsons The New School of Design.