Who is Hidden Switch?

A team of engineers, artists, writers and musicians

Directors

Benjamin Berman is an engineer and artist based in San Francisco. His interactives have been featured in the New York Times, Wired, the BBC and more; his animation has appeared in feature films by Errol Morris, Disney and the Tribeca Film Festival.

James Gale is an engineer based in Seattle, Washington. He is a significant contributor to Spellsource and author of open source games and mods.

Nolan Fabricius is an artist and longtime collaborator responsible for art in these games and more.

Alexander Berman & Camille Stochitch write for Spellsource and Monster Match. They also write and direct for TV and features. They guide the community to author high-quality narratives to accompany the main plots and characters in Spellsource.

Collaborators

Everyone who has worked on something here, and what they worked on.

  • Errol Morris

    documentary filmmaker

    Documentary filmmaker. The Thin Blue Line got a man off death row, The Fog of War won the Academy Award, and the Interrotron is his invention.

    Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck? The Baskerville Experiment Demon in the Freezer The Unknown Known Global Meltdown

  • Alexander Berman

    filmmaker

    Filmmaker. He directed App, Songs from the Tundra and The Volcano People, and writes for Hidden Switch games with Camille Stochitch.

    Propaganda Tennis Monster Match Spellsource

  • Camille Stochitch

    writer

    Writer. She writes with Alexander Berman, on his films and on Hidden Switch games. The two of them guide the Spellsource community as it writes narratives around the game's main plots and characters.

    Spellsource Monster Match Virtual High

  • Emilia Lazer-Walker

    game designer and creative technologist

    Game designer and creative technologist in San Francisco, a cloud advocate at Microsoft. She made Hello, Operator! at the MIT Media Lab and worked on the Venice exhibit for Holobiont Urbanism.

    Hello, Operator! Holobiont Urbanism

  • Gabe Donnay

    composer

    Composer. He wrote the music for Spellsource and Monster Match.

    Spellsource Monster Match

  • Miguel Perez

    designer and engineer, at Lovable

    Designer and engineer, now at Lovable, previously at Meta, Spotify and Perkins&Will. He co-created Monster Match and was project lead and hive engineer on Holobiont Urbanism in the MIT Media Lab's Playful Systems group.

    Monster Match Holobiont Urbanism

  • Nolan Fabricius

    illustrator and animator

    Illustrator and animator in Los Angeles, working in animation production on Bob's Burgers. The pixel art in these games is his.

    Monster Match Propaganda Tennis

  • Brian Fox

    chief strategy and innovation officer at SpecialGuest

    Chief strategy and innovation officer at SpecialGuest. At Meta he was global production and CS Labs innovation lead in the Creative Shop, where he founded CS Labs and put real-time rendering, machine learning and XR into brand campaigns. He was earlier chief technology officer at 1stAveMachine.

    Hyundai IONIQ 5 Virtual Test Drive

  • David Braun

    developer and artist, real-time media

    Developer and artist working in real-time interactive media and audiovisual machine learning, and a computer science doctoral candidate at Princeton. He co-built the First Group iPad apps, and his are the hands in the CTSS terminal.

    Did My Brother Invent E-Mail With Tom Van Vleck?

  • James Gale

    co-founder of AppMana

    Engineer in Seattle and a co-founder of AppMana. He built the Spellsource server and client, and works on AppMana's client engagements. He also writes widely used open-source mods for Bloons TD 6.

    Spellsource

  • Jessica Eng

    food writer

    Food writer in New York, published in the Washington Post, the New York Times, TASTE, NPR and Eater. She runs finance and administration at AppMana, and worked on the Safari Par-Tee design documents at Trigger XR.

    PGA Jr. League Safari Par-Tee

  • Jonathan Bobrow

    designer, tangible computing

    Designer working in tangible computing, now lead design engineer at Nanotronics. He made AutomaTiles at the MIT Media Lab and sold it as Blinks through his company Move38 until 2022.

    AutomaTiles

  • Sergio Torcanin

    game developer

    Game developer in Germany, building Unity and VR software including industrial training simulators.

    Propaganda Tennis

  • Abhi Aiyer

    engineer, co-founder of Mastra

    Engineer at Workpop, now co-founder and chief technology officer of Mastra, the TypeScript agent framework. He was previously on the Gatsby team.

  • Andrew Cedotal

    board game designer, running AnyRoom

    Board game designer and product lead in San Francisco, now running AnyRoom. He founded the games company Playmake, and licenses board games to Hasbro in the United States and Sit Down Games in Europe.

  • Ankur Bulsara

    co-founder and CTO of Scopely

    Co-founder and chief technology officer of Scopely, in Las Vegas. The company he built is behind Monopoly GO! and the earlier mobile games in this list.

  • Anne Liu

    artist, design professor at Weitzman

    Artist and design professor at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania. Her work is speculative and often biological.

  • Chris Ovitz

    co-founder of Workpop

    Co-founder and co-chief executive of Workpop. He went on to co-found Viddy and OK Play, and is now a co-founder of Gallery Ventures in New York.

  • Hannes Holste

    life science investment, at Thiel Capital

    Director of life science investments and data science at Thiel Capital in Los Angeles, and a director of Peptilogics and Ataraxis AI. He was a biomedical informatics scientist at the Knight Lab in San Diego.

  • Henry Jay Yu

    product design lead

    Product design and user-experience lead in Los Angeles, and Workpop's director of product. He later led design at Cornerstone OnDemand, ZipRecruiter and AuditBoard.

  • Mary Maggic

    artist, open-source biology

    Artist working in open-source biology, hormones and, lately, ecology and plastic pollution. They are artist in residence at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute of Network Medicine in Vienna.

  • Reed Shaffner

    co-founder of Workpop

    Co-founder and co-chief executive of Workpop, now chief technology officer of the sports operations company Teamworks.

  • Seth Sandler

    engineer, maker of Tunable

    Engineer. He makes Tunable, a tuner and metronome used by more than a million musicians, through his studio AffinityBlue, and earlier built the Multitouch Mini and co-founded Community Core Vision. He is now an iOS engineer at Whatnot.

Where is it located?

San Francisco, California

1890 Bryant Street

Brooklyn, New York

100 Bogart Street

Stockholm, Sweden

Regeringsgatan 25