Colin Bonstead

Colin Bonstead is the Technical Director at Gunfire Games, where they have worked on Remnant: From the Ashes, Darksiders III, From Other Suns, Chronos, and Darksiders II: Deathinitive Edition. Colin previously worked as the Director of Technology at Crytek USA, where they oversaw technical decisions and conducted hiring for the programming team. Colin also worked on the custom Hunt gameplay code that was much cleaner than stock, and more flexible and easier to use. Colin also created many in-game tools for designers and programmers to debug problems. At Vigil Games, they were the Director of Technology and Lead Programmer, where they oversaw the Darksiders and Warhammer 40,000: Dark Millennium Online programming teams, making all technical decisions for the shared codebase used for both games. Colin also wrote an asset streaming system for seamless background loading from DVD. Colin handled all the physics (Havok) and character proxy code. Colin also maintained and improved the in-house memory allocator, and created memory tracking and debugging tools.

Colin Bonstead attended Washington State University from 1996 to 2000, where they earned a B.S. in Computer Science.

The team of Colin Bonstead, Technical Director, is responsible for the game's audio and design. Jeremy Robins is the Audio Director and John Pearl is the Design Director.