Nicholas Fortugno
- January 9, 2024
- Chief Creative Officer
Quick Facts
| Full Name | Nicholas Fortugno |
| Occupation | Chief Creative Officer |
| Date Of Birth | May 13, 1975(1975-05-13) |
| Age | 49 |
| Country | United States |
| Birth City | The Bronx |
| Horoscope | Taurus |
Nicholas Fortugno Biography
| Name | Nicholas Fortugno |
| Birthday | May 13 |
| Birth Year | 1975 |
| Home Town | The Bronx |
| Birth Country | United States |
| Birth Sign | Taurus |
Nicholas Fortugno is one of the most popular and richest Chief Creative Officer who was born on May 13, 1975 in The Bronx, United States. Nicholas Fortugno, born May 13, 1975, is an American game designer. Fortugno is the CCO of Playmatics LLC in New York City. This game development studio focuses on casual games, and was cofounded by Margaret Wallace.
Fortugno collaborated with Katie Salen, Frank Lantz and Frank Lantz in 2003 to create the Big Urban Game (BUG), for the University of Minnesota’s Design Celebration. The BUG was a race between three teams that had to move an inflatable piece 25 feet high through a series checkpoints in the Twin Cities.
Fortugno, Salen, and Lantz later collaborated again to make Slow Games, a two- page spread of games for Metropolis Magazine’s 25th Anniversary issue in April 2006.
Later that year, Fortugno was one of five founders (including Greg Trefry, Catherine Herdlick, Mattia Romeo, and Peter Seung-Taek Lee) of Come Out & Play (CO&P), the world’s first street game festival. The first CO&P ran in New York City from September 22 to 24. With Trefry and Romeo, Fortugno designed the street game Insider; Fortugno also ran his original existential horror LARP entitled Ghost Engines in the Sky. The following year, Amsterdam hosted the CO&P as part of the PICNIC festival in 2007. CO&P returned to NYC June 6 to 8 2008.
Fortugno has been a Parsons The New School for Design teacher of Interactive Narrative and Game Design since 2002. He has also contributed to the development and implementation of the school’s game design curriculum. Fortugno is also the host and writer for Critical Smack!, a game journal and review website.
Nicholas Fortugno Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Chief Creative Officer |
| House | Living in own house. |
Nicholas Fortugno is one of the richest Chief Creative Officer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Nicholas Fortugno 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Fortugno started his Seasons of Darkness LARP while he was at SUNY Purchase in mid-1990s. It ran for several decades and was covered in Rules of Play and Eric Zimmerman as well as Daniel Mackay’s The Fantasy Roleplaying Game.
Fortugno began his career at Gamelab in 2000 and was eventually promoted to Director of Game Design. He then left Gamelab in 2006. Fortugno was the lead designer and codesigner on many digital Gamelab projects including:
Diner Dash is an action strategy game in which the player takes the role of Flo, a stockbroker who quits her job to run her own diner. One of the top- selling downloadable games of 2004, Diner Dash was later ported to mobile phone, given a retail release and made available via 100% advert-supported download. Versions have been created for the PSP, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS platforms. GamingTalkHQ reported that a version for Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 was imminent. To date, Diner Dash has been downloaded over a half a billion times across all of its platforms.
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Born in the Bronx, New York, Fortugno was raised primarily in Yonkers, New York, where he attended Gorton High School. Fortugno earned B.A.’s in English and Philosophy from the State University of New York College at Purchase in
- Between 2000 and 2002, he attended the City University of New York as a doctoral student in English Literature, and then Hunter College as a Master’s student, with a concentration on post-war American novels.
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