Bert Snow

Biography

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Bert Snow is the VP of Design and Content at Muzzy Lane Software, and a designer with wide interests and a history of innovation in game design.

In 1993 he founded Virtual Music, a company that pioneered the music-game genre. There, Bert designed several groundbreaking music-gaming titles for the PC and Playstation including Quest for Fame (starring Aerosmith), Stolen Song (published by Sony in Japan), and an Aerosmith arcade game. Virtual Music was acquired by Japanese game company Namco in 2000.

At Muzzy Lane, Bert leads the design group, and has designed the social history game American Dynasties (working with film-makers Center for New American Media), ReFresh (a prototype game to teach marketing), and the company’s first title, Making History, the Calm & the Storm. He and his team are starting work on games to teach science at the middle-school level.

Bert’s game designs have won awards including the League for Innovation Best New Product (Making History), Invision Awards Silver Medal for Best Overall Game Design (Quest for Fame), and the E3 Leonardo daVinci Award for product design (Quest for Fame and Virtual Guitar).

In other areas, Bert has a platinum record for his interactive-design work on the Aerosmith album Nine Lives, and helped design the interactive-music website MusicPlayground for Namco. He has designed exhibits for The New York Hall of Science and the Children’s Museum, and has taught as a visiting artist at Harvard University. Bert has a BA with highest honors in Art from Williams College.

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