Michael started his career in the video games industry as a quest designer in the pre-WoW era of MMORPGs. In the 20+ year journey that followed, he spelunked the Caverns of XBLA, fought on all sides of the Nintendo/Sega Handheld Crusades, spearheaded great armies of Springfielders and waged Star Wars for the glory of App-el and Goog-el.

After venturing through the Idle Lands, he found a great many of his former soldiers-in-arms at the Lost Pixels, joined their hardy crew as Design Director, and set out with them on a quest to conquer all new challenges and adventures.

Michael’s strengths include an eye for distilling challenges down to their basic components, a strong belief in support-based management, and a foolhardy willingness to taste any hot sauce at least once. However, he is inherently vulnerable to the lure of collection mechanics and suffers double critical damage from all janky tutorials.

Christine Macdonald (née Bourque) began her career as a Production Assistant and Information Officer at Other Ocean Interactive, where she discovered her passion for game development. She then moved to Electronic Arts’ Charlottetown based mobile studio to help support the talented team behind the wildly successful ‘The Simpsons Tapped Out’. 

With over 15 years experience, she is an expert wordsmith, a seasoned problem solver, and a friend to all who meet her. In a nutshell, Christine cares. About the project, her team, her clients, and probably you.

When not at work, she can be found playing video games, spending time with her family, enjoying nature, or fawning over her cat. Rumor has it that she also sings and plays guitar when no one is looking.

Jon’s a Senior UI Designer with over a decade of experience in the game industry.

His journey has taken him to some of the most renowned game development companies, including EA, Kabam, and Hyper Hippo Interactive. During his tenure at these companies, Jon has contributed to several high-profile projects, including Marvel: Contest of Champions, Transformers: Forged to Fight, NBA Live Mobile, and The Simpsons: Tapped Out.

When Jon’s not designing, building, or playing games he can be found enjoying island life with his family.

Ben wants to live in a world where all the placemats and coasters are slightly off center.

As a Senior Engineer, Ben’s been applauded for his work on games for IP’s such as The Simpsons & Star Wars. When Ben’s not writing super performant code, you can find him canoeing, playing with his dog, or enjoying various anime’s.

Hesham joined The Lost Pixels in 2022 as a Junior Engineer. Prior to The Lost Pixels, Hesham was a student at the University of PEI where he majored in computer science. He currently lives in Charlottetown with his Korg keyboard. When he’s not keeping busy with coding and music you can find him on his way to Toronto.

With 14+ years of industry experience, John has worn many hats on the art team. His career began in Charlottetown, as a 3D Generalist for mobile and web experiences. Shifting focus to technical animation, he spent years rigging and animating for realtime environments. With a knack for tinkering in-engine, he added visual effects and shader authoring to his tool belt. He joined EA as a Technical Artist in 2016, and helped the team develop workflows, shaders, effects, and tools for multiple projects. He now works with the Pixels, helping out wherever he can!

When John’s not working, you’ll find him patching up holes in his house, figuring out parenting, or doing a little flat-ground skateboarding when his old joints can handle it.

Jeremy Matthews has worked in the games industry for 20 years, including 9 years at Electronic Arts. He contributed as an engineer on The Simpsons: Tapped Out, developing the asset processing pipeline, and as a gameplay engineer on NBA Live: Mobile. Jeremy was also involved in porting Peggle Blast from Unity to HTML5. He worked on the Rendering team at Kabam, servicing Marvel Contest of Champions and Disney Mirrorverse. Most recently, Jeremy was part of the Emerging Technologies team at Unity.

Rob Curbishley’s game career started when he was hired by a little studio called Other Ocean. But Other Ocean could not contain him, and he soon found himself working at gaming behemoth EA. There, he helped add to the world of Simpsons : Tapped Out, a Star Wars game no one has played, and a handful of other projects. 

Always be practicing. That’s his motto and it can be heard echoing the halls of the studio he once called home. Now he is employed by The Lost Pixels where his creativity and strengths know no bounds. What does the future hold? When asked what his weaknesses are, Rob simply laughed and said “What weakness?” and teleported away.

When Justin is not expanding his horizons about game art, optimization, and tech art, He’s playing games. Among his favourite games are Destiny 2 and Pokémon.

Aside from games, Justin is always on the hunt for the best chocolate milkshake. So far, the best he’s found has been from the Dairy Royal on the western part of the island. His girlfriend thinks he’s obsessed with seals, especially when they stick their tongues out or bounce along the ground.

Before The Lost Pixels, Jordan worked 6 years in the industry at EA Mobile as an Animator and Character Artist, with experience in both 2D and 3D Animation. She is a fan of both birds and anime.. And especially anime birds.

Her main strength is being flexible in the workplace. Her biggest weakness, turned superpower during covid times, is her tendency to hide at home.

Ian has education in architecture, illustration, graphic design and traditional 2D animation. He has worked in many fields such as printing, publishing, television and web, for companies small & large. Ian originally moved to the Maritimes starting with Halifax to work in the animation industry. He ended up moving to Charlottetown to do art for mobile games. He’s been in the industry for over 15 years and would be considered a generalist. Lately Ian has been expanding his knowledge toolkit to 3D and Unreal 5.

He mainly loves backgrounds and prop designs and is passionate about societal and architectural history. This is a hobby that translates well to his obsessive love for theme parks and roller-coasters.

Ian hates tangents. The visual kind.

His strengths are environment art and drinking milkshakes. His weakness is not drinking enough milkshakes.

Alix became a Pixel in 2022. Prior to The Lost Pixels, she studied Graphic Design and worked on creating brand identities and marketing materials at an advertising studio. Always having been drawn to pop culture projects like comic books and video games, she was was thrilled to embark on a journey into the world of game development at The Lost Pixels!

In her free time she works on her illustrative skills and plays horror games in her cozy, pink room.

As she continues to grow in her career, Alix is eager to take on new challenges and further develop her skills. Although her enthusiasm can sometimes lead her to splurge on Hello Kitty merchandise… Her dedication to her craft and her drive to constantly improve are among her greatest strengths.

Juan joined The Lost Pixels in the summer of 2022 as a Junior Game Artist while enrolled in graphic design studies. Before expanding his skills into graphic design, Juan worked as a Textile Designer for years and has experience in the creative field. When he’s not busy studying graphic design or working, you can catch him crackin’ jokes, and using his photoshop skills for evil.