Strange Loop Team

John is CEO of Strange Loop, designer of Eco, and programming lead. He owns way too many board games, which bring a lot of inspiration to Eco. He's most interested in how games can create the positive changes needed for a new society as it rapidly changes, applying them to education, entertainment, simulations, science, and all things between. Before starting Strange Loop in 2009, he worked at Electronic Arts on console titles like Batman: Dark Knight. His favorite board games are currently Dominion, Great Western Trail, and Gloomhaven. His favorite video game of all time is Ultima Online.

Milenko is an art director on ECO as well as general artist, handling the overall look and working with his team on every aspect of the visuals for the game. Milenko and John K worked together for many years and he has overseen the looks of all the games SLG has produced so far. Milenko's background is in comics, world design and concept art, but over his long career he learned to do every aspect of art production. Before starting SLG with John in 2009, he spent many years in the industry. After starting his career as a comic artist in the mid 90s, he worked as an animation design artist for Saturday morning cartoon shows before moving on to games in 2000. Milenko started working for different game studios including Pandemic Studios and EA. Titles he worked on include "Destroy all Humans!” 1 & 2, "Mercenaries", and "Saboteur". In his free time, he consumes large amounts of comics (Including Manga) as well as good looking art off the internet. His favorite game is, of course, Zelda :)

Dennis is Associate Producer and Community Manager at Strange Loop Games, responsible for community work, customer support and different production tasks. As jack of all trades he is also involved in many other areas, linking them together. He makes sure our games are developed with the community being heard. In his free time, he works for a charitable non-profit organization aiming to make the world a better place. Dennis loves to play computer games and pen & paper, his all-time favourites therefore being Baldur's Gate II and Dungeons & Dragons. He is interested in culture, politics, society and science and tries to learn as much as possible.

Tiny unity developer that loves implementing new gameplay/UI features and fixing bugs to improve user experience and make it as smooth as possible!

Kirill is a quality assurance engineer at Strange Loop Games. He has been interested in computer games for most of his life. He likes RPGs, but most of all he likes to play MMOs: "It's more interesting to play with other people". One of his favorite games is World of Warcraft. In his free time, he also enjoys playing board games with his friends. Some of his favorite board games are Munchkin, Epic Spell Wars Battle Wizards, Imaginarium, and Bang.

Grigoriy is a Developer at Strange Loop Games and studied Technical IT Solutions. He's living a dream by being part of big projects that involve gaming. Since he was a child, he has been interested in making games, both to entertain and to educate while improving life, cognitive and memory skills. He started by using Delphi, DirectX, and Unity to create apps. He worked as a developer and team leader for the Argentinian national government, being involved in projects that involved education and city improvements. Before starting his career at SLG, Gri worked designing games for EA Sports and Facebook using VR. In his free time, he likes going to the gym, swimming, and playing League of Legends. Also, he's a member of the representative basketball team at college.

Leonard first started creating video game audio in '94. He enjoys teaching, procedural audio, music, synthesis and nature.

Robert is an artist at Strange Loop Games, working on concepts, models, textures, UI elements and various illustrations. Previously he worked at Pandemic, EA, Gameslab, and Gameloft before rejoining Strange Loop Games in 2017. In his spare time, he enjoys learning to play piano, painting and drawing.

Anna works as a quality assurance engineer, taking part in the testing process and helping to make some useful tools with an all-mighty-magic-coding-wand. She enjoys participating in the creation process and watching simple features transform into something valuable, important and vision changing. "So, let's turn their mind and make it in a fun way!"

Sergey is a developer at Strange Loop Games with a passion for making the game experience smooth and seamless. His specialty is working on UI and visual features. He enjoys playing online co-op games and playing the piano.

Gabriel is a Brazilian developer at Strange Loop. Joined in 2020, has been happily following this path for a couple of years. His main goal is to spread fun and healthy games for everyone across the world!

Joins Strange Loop Games on 2021 as part of quality assurance team. Having played games from early age of 5 with games like Need For Speed and Warcraft. Built his passion towards game henceforth.

Joined Strange Loop Games in the autumn of 2020 as a member of the Quality Assurance team but i have a large interest in continuing to learn C# and always picking up new things. Have a quite substantial gaming experience across all fields with favorite areas such management, strategy and building with balancing realism with game play as a main focus. Previously worked in construction and heavy duty equipment such as wheel-loaders and excavators.

Daniel is an article writer, content creator, a hardcore gamer, and a gamer at heart with vast video game experience in various genres, technology, and platforms. He joined Strange Loop Games in 2021 as a member of the Quality Assurance team. His quality assurance game testing development experience gave him the edge, set of skills, and knowledge he needed to qualify and become a certified member of the QA team. He is also a well-experienced content writer for 10 years and he writes articles about video games, product reviews, and the latest in the world of technology. His favorite games are Witcher 3: The Wild Hunt, Cyberpunk 2077, and Pokemon Sword/Shield. He is also a loving husband and a dog trainer.

Evelyn is from El Salvador and joined SLG as a Hiring Manager on 2020. She is in charge of creating strategies to find, attract and hire super stars for our company. She is determined, intuitive and she is also a loving mom who enjoys coffee and sunsets way too much.

Juan is a programmer who joined SLG at the beginning of 2021, he has been a developer for more than 5 years, with more than 8 games published on Android and IOS, with skills focused mainly on design and programming.

Toby is a VFX tech artist at Strange Loop. He started at Halfbrick Studios making trailers in the Video Team, before moving on to VFX and Art for Magic Brick Wars and the experimental AR game Shadows Remain. After a stint freelancing in VR development and video production, he joined Strange Loop in May of 2021. When he's not staring into a screen he's One-wheeling with his dog Stella or tending to his small suburban farm.

Starting his journey at SLG in august 2021, Hassen has always wanted to work in the gaming industry and he's a big fun of RTS and single player games in general.

Luka started programming various cross platform games and apps in college but found his home working on ECO at SLG in 2021. He's an avid gamer and has a keen interest in building personal computers.

Hello There, I'm Giovanny Espinal one of the Unity Devs of the team since 2021, you can find me on discord as Gio#0753. About me. I'm an Electronic Engineer with a MSc in Engineering, I've been a Tutor / Professor for about 10 years, I love education and how technology may help us to improve it, and I do believe that projects like ECO can be a step for the evolution of education through collaboration and awareness of the impact of each person in the world.

Daria is an Artist at Strange Loop Games. She works on 3D models and textures, trying to make beautiful and functional assets. Daria joined SLG in March 2021 and has worked in four time zones since that time. She loves bright colors, birdwatching and sustainable consumption.

Michael Shardlow is a Animator at SLG since May, 2021. Who has been working in the the game industry for 20 years plus. Such games as Destroy All Humans series, Hand of Fate series, Megamind, Submerged 2 Hidden Depths and cancelled games like Batman Dark Knight and The Avengers. And also the odd VR games & mobile in-between various projects.

Hello world, I started to work at SLG in March of 2022 as a 3D artist. I really enjoy my job. I love modelling, texturing and of course playing. Games were a big part of my life. I think that my inspirations are all Dragon Age titles, all Dark Souls titles, Diablo III and Crash Bandicoot.

Adam, who also goes by adz or addzeey, is a Web Developer from England. He has a passion for design and development and wants to build beautiful websites and user interfaces! He is currently studying for a software engineering degree. He joined Strange Loop Games in May 2022, and will be helping with all things web development!