Cody woputz here!
Cody Woputz a.k.a. an award-winning mixed reality game designer






I'm an American Game Designer With a knack for building multiplayer, mixed reality games.

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.



Currently I’m the CTO of Throwback Studios building Derby, a social app reinventing the sandlot using physics-based casual play.







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 craft clever social experiences that bring together people in unexpected and asymmetric ways.





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