I ship games and build the teams, tools and companies around them: Bingo Showdown and Bingo Universe at SciPlay, Fallout 76 at Bethesda, Grey Goo and RiME at Six Foot, and three companies of my own. Open for work as a producer, product lead or consultant.
2012
ShadowMaster
A top-down puzzle game: control a necromancer and his shadow at the same time.
- I designed the core mechanics and about a third of the levels
- About 2 hours of puzzles from roughly 1,000 hours of team time
Guildhall yr 1
The Fable of Ursus
A lore quest: help the Silver Hand hunt Ursus, leader of Hircine's Hunters.
- Three custom levels, a two-route cave and a werebear boss fight
2012–2014
Kraven Manor
Horror where you rearrange a dollhouse model to rebuild the manor around you.
- Started as my class pitch at SMU Guildhall; the first SMU student IP to sign a publishing contract
- Won both Intel awards at GDC 2014, including Best Gameplay
- Shipped on Steam in 2014 with a 400%+ return
- Millions of views, including PewDiePie and Markiplier
2012–2021
Jammin Ventures
Websites, IT and digital marketing for small businesses around Dallas.
- Paid clients: two medical practices in Waxahachie, with websites and HIPAA-compliant IT
- Built Creeta Resources, an oil-price site with forums, then handed it over
- Pitched local businesses, including a land-clearing company and a furniture restorer
Guildhall yr 2
Kraven Manor in UE4
A Kraven Manor scene rebuilt from Unreal Engine 3 in Unreal Engine 4.
- Every prop and texture reimported from the base game
- New materials built from the original textures
2014
GTA 5 missions
Seven missions built in GTA 5's own editor.
- A deathmatch, two races and four Captures
- All still playable on Rockstar Social Club
2015
Grey Goo
- All outsourcing for cinematics, animatics, localization and audio, including the SIGGRAPH-selected launch trailer
- Publisher backend, betas and go-live
2014–2017
Dreadnought
- Developer management in Berlin, with milestone payment reviews
- Six Foot's first internal dev team, 8 to 15 people in a year
- Betas through the 2017 PC open beta
2017
RiME
- Publishing support alongside the primary publishing producer
- D.I.C.E., Golden Joystick and IGN award nominations
2018–2020
Fallout 76: Wild Appalachia
- Launch stabilization: 6 patches in 3 months
- Combat feel overhaul and the Public Events overhaul
- Player Vending, Brewing, The Burrows, Pioneer Scouts, Project Paradise
2020
Fallout 76: Wastelanders
- Riding Shotgun, Radiation Rumble and the new dailies
- A Colossal Problem: a new world boss, the Wendigo Colossus
- Seasons and the S.C.O.R.E.board
2020–2021
Fallout 76: Daily Ops and One Wasteland
- Daily Ops, the repeatable endgame mode, owned end to end
- One Wasteland: level scaling so mixed-level teams can play together
2020–2021
Fallout 76: Steel Dawn and Steel Reign
- The Brotherhood of Steel story arc at Fort Atlas
- C.A.M.P. Shelters, Legendary Crafting and Legendary Power Armor
2021–2025
Bingo Showdown
- Top 5 US bingo game by revenue for three straight quarters in 2024 (Sensor Tower)
- Two monetization reworks: rebuilt analytics, retuned levers and new ones
- Seasonal events restructured to re-run year over year
A predictive release date, steerable live: add or cut scope or people in front of leadership and watch the date move.
One set of Jira-fed delivery metrics for every team, sprint or kanban.
2021–2025
Production systems
- SAFe, milestone and feature gates, plus an automated weekly GM report
2023–2025
Bingo Universe
A new kind of bingo: hundreds of puzzle levels instead of a live room.
- A game-agnostic platform with buy-in from every central team at Light & Wonder, championed by the CTO
- Game, UX and art design as the game director's number 1, concept to launch in 2025
2026
JobAnvil
"Job hunting sucks. We made it suck less."
- Searches 3M+ live jobs and grades each one from S to F
- Drafts a tailored résumé and cover letter for every job
- Designed and built end to end with agentic AI
Feb 2026
SMU guest lecture
Identifying Entrepreneurial Opportunities.
- Design thinking, the Marshmallow Challenge, and why fast followers often win
As Chris transcended the minor break in the forest, he brushed his thumb over the silver ring his mother had left him, the one etched with a swan in flight. The insignia caught what little light filtered through the trees. He told himself not to think about her, not now, not while the woods whispered strange things—but his thumb kept tracing the swan’s soft arc, the symbol of everything pure and whole. His heart was neither. It carried a missing piece that time refused to fill.
Eve, or Evelyn to nearly everyone else, was light made human. Wherever she went, shadows lost their meaning. Her laugh could cleanse despair the way spring rain rinses dust from leaves. But those memories did him no good now. Somewhere beyond Mornia, past the eternal green of the Ascendanian woods and the lonely stretch of plains, lay the city of Vera—his destination. His purpose. His only reason to keep walking.
Open for work
Let's build something.
I'm Ben Roye: game producer, designer and three-time founder in Dallas–Fort Worth.
I've shipped live games at SciPlay (Light & Wonder), Bethesda Game Studios and Six Foot, led teams of 40 to 100+, and built the tools that keep big teams on schedule. I'm looking for producer, product and consulting roles.
- Education
- MBA, Texas Tech · Master of Interactive Technology, SMU Guildhall · BA, UT Austin · Certified ScrumMaster
- Based in
- Dallas–Fort Worth, Texas