Robin Hunicke

Quick Facts

Full Name	Robin Hunicke
Occupation	Executive Producer
Date Of Birth	Mar 15, 1973(1973-03-15)
Age	51
Birthplace	Albany
Country	United States
Birth City	New York
Horoscope	Pisces

Robin Hunicke Biography

Robin Hunicke is one of the most popular and richest Executive Producer who was born on March 15, 1973 in Albany, New York, United States. Hunicke was born in Albany, New York on March 15, 1973. She has a B.A. She holds a B.A. degree from the University of Chicago and is currently finishing her PhD in Artificial Intelligence at Northwestern University with a focus of Games and Game Design.

Hunicke was selected for Gamasutra’s “Gamasutra 20”, which honors the top 20 women in the videogame industry. Hunicke was awarded the Women in Gaming Award by Microsoft in 2009. Edge Magazine also included Hunicke on its 2009 Hot 100 Game Developers List.

Hunicke began her career at Electronic Arts where she worked on multiple games including MySims as Lead Designer and Boom Blox and its sequel as a Producer. After leaving EA, she was hired by thatgamecompany where she produced Journey, an online cooperative game for the PlayStation 3. After its completion, Hunicke joined Tiny Speck to develop the social MMORPG Glitch, teaming with Katamari Damacy creator and personal friend Keita Takahashi. Prior to the release of Glitch, Hunicke left Tiny Speck to co-found Funomena together with Martin Middleton, former teammate and engineer at thatgamecompany. In October 2012, Funomena announced their first project: “to build a game that takes data from a pedometer and does something fun with it.” They have since announced two new games, Wattam (directed by Keita Takahashi) and Luna, “a tactile puzzle game set in a vibrant and sculptural story-book world”, both of which are currently in development and executive produced by Hunicke.

Prior to the release of Glitch, Hunicke left Tiny Speck to co-found Funomena together with Martin Middleton. They announced their first project in October 2012: “to build a game that takes data from a pedometer and does something fun with it.” Their first video game is Luna, a VR-focused art game which is described as “a tactile puzzle game set in a vibrant and sculptural story-book world”. They then developed Wattam, a spiritual successor of Bandai Namco’s Katamari series directed by its creator, Keita Takahashi. It was released on PlayStation 4 and PC (via Epic Games Store) on December 17th, 2019.

Hunicke’s various titles have won awards to date. These include the Online Innovation Award for Journey at Game Developers Choice Online Awards, and the BAFTA award for Boom Blox as “Best Casual Game 2008”.

Robin Hunicke Net Worth

Robin Hunicke is one of the richest Executive Producer from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Robin Hunicke 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robin Hunicke, /’h nI k i/; born March 15, 1973, is an American producer and videogame designer. She is a professor at UC Santa Cruz in game design and co- founder of Funomena.

From 2001 to 2004, Hunicke, Marc LeBlanc, and Robert Zubeck created the Mechanics-Dynamics-Aesthetics framework to focus and improve game analysis. This framework categorizes all aspects of a game into Mechanics or Dynamics and outlines the inverse perspectives for player and designer. The designer sees the Mechanics as generating Dynamics that generate Aesthetics. The player’s perspective is that the Aesthetics are generated by the game mechanics.

Following her work at Electronic Arts, Hunicke joined thatgamecompany as producer. She joined the team in the early conceptual stages for the studio’s third project Journey, a multiplayer cooperative adventure game released in early 2012.

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Robin Ranked on the list of most popular Executive Producer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Robin Hunicke celebrates birthday on March 15 of every year.