John Alvarado

John Alvarado has 30+ years in the video game industry as a developer, programmer, entrepreneur, and technology director. He entered the video game industry right out of high school in 1983, creating artwork and programming for the Atari 800 and Commodore 64 with popular arcade games like Centipede and Mario Bros. John was Lead Programmer at Virgin Games where he helped develop the DigiCel technology used in the hit game Disney's Aladdin, and where he was the recipient of a game design award from 3DO for Demolition Man, the first game where Hollywood actors shot custom video footage to be used exclusively in the game. John went on to be the president and co-founder of Big Grub, developing PC and PlayStation games and working with Shiny Entertainment and Interplay. Those successful relationships led to John working for 13+ years as Technical Director under industry legend Brian Fargo at inXile Entertainment. John has 30+ published games, including high-profile games on the first generation home video game computers.