Chris has been making games for more than 25 years, including early career at EA Los Angeles, the start-up that became PopCap San Francisco, and an early hit iPhone game. His primary focus has been establishing several game development communities beginning in 2004. He currently operates DevPods.gg as his main work since 2015. He's taught game development at Georgia Tech and Northeastern, in addition to independent video courses on game programming fundamentals used by 400,000 students and a top selling course on solo / small team production methodology.