Cody Woputz a.k.a. an award-winning game designer

Across all my work, I craft clever social experiences that bring people together in unexpected and asymmetric ways.

I hold an MS in Symbolic Systems from Stanford University, where my master’s thesis VR game The Crystal Reef put players in the fins of a marine biologist. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, and won me a Top 30 Under 30 Thinker award.

I spent 6 years managing Stanford's Virtual Human Interaction Lab, while virtual reality transformed from an academic to consumer technology. I taught VR bootcamps and led outreach for thousands of visitors.

I grew up on a steady diet of Nintendo, AOL chat rooms, and competitive Counter-Strike. My first game was about a guy lost in a skyscraper, which I built on my Macintosh Performa in Hypercard.