Joshua DeBonis

Joshua DeBonis is a game designer, programmer, and musician. Joshua is an award-winning game designer with extensive experience as a game design and development consultant. He teaches game design and development at Parsons the New School for Design. Joshua is co-founder and organizer of the New York board game designers playtest group, as well as the experimental collective Brooklyn Game Ensemble. Along with Nikita Mikros, he also recently co-founded BumbleBear Games, an independent studio focusing on local-multiplayer arcade games.

In 2004, DeBonis founded Sortasoft LLC "for the purpose of creating games featuring unique and original gameplay and creativity." It independently develops digital and non-digital games.

Joshua is described as being "particularly interested in exploring ways to integrate history and music with games, procedural generation of game content, and in creating games that provide a deep and meaningful experience in a short play time."