Codename Entertainment : Team

Every Codename Entertainment team member is passionate about making games, gaming, and pretty much all game related activities. We're always looking for more exceptional people to add to our crew, so check out the Careers page to see what positions we're hiring for now.

Eric Jordan
CEO

Eric is a life long gamer who is thrilled to be the CEO of CNE. Previously, he co-founded PureEdge Solutions (acquired by IBM in 2005), was an Executive-In-Residence at UVic and then the President of the Premier's Technology Council.

Eric has served on many boards including the boards of DigiBC and IGDA Victoria.

Currently Playing: Dungeons & Dragons

Justin Stocks
Co-Founder

Justin finished his B.Sc in Computer Science in 2009 where he focused on Software Engineering and AI. Justin has a background in game programming, web programming, and database systems. Justin has a passion for game design.

At Codename, Justin wears many hats including Game Designer, Project Manager, Backend Game Programmer, Systems Designer, and Community Support.

Currently Playing: Level 13

David Whittaker
Co-Founder

David finished his M.Sc. in Computer Science in 2009 where he focused on real-time hardware accelerated graphics, educational games, and game programming for teaching computer science.

At Codename, David wears many hats including Game Designer, Project Manager, Frontend/Backend Game Programmer, Server/Database Admin, Systems Designer, and Business Manager.

Currently Playing: Fortnite

Elisa Behn
People Ops Manager

Elisa's love of games has followed her across the globe - playing D&D while studying at the University of Ottawa where she graduated with a B.Comm in 2006; playing board games during breaks when working at Walt Disney World; and playing cards while travelling around Europe during her year abroad. Now that she's back on Vancouver Island, she's eager to provide support to those who create the games she loves, as Codename's People Operations Manager.

Currently Playing: Disney Villainous

Dave Dexter
Operations Director

Dexter graduated with an MA in philosophy in 2013 and an MBA in 2019 and his career has spanned account and project management, finance and consulting. But long before any of that, he was a dewy-eyed young person who played games way too much if you asked anyone but him. One day, Dexter snuck into the CNE offices and, in exchange for his first name, they let him stay to manage the business-y things like finance, accounting, logistics and facilities. It was a good trade.

Currently Playing: World of Warcraft

Jay MacDonald
Office Coordinator

Jay has spent most of their life being known for having a rather eclectic range of interests, with gaming being among them. Prior to Codename Jay had been studying Criminology and Anthropology at Simon Fraser University until they decided to take a break in early 2020. Not long after that they were hired by Codename as a livestream moderator. These days Jay works mainly behind the scenes making sure the office stays in shape and working on the accounting, but they still occasionally pop over to our Twitch channel as a moderator.

Currently Playing: Call of Duty

Treavor Bettis
Content Design/MarComs

Treavor has been telling stories since he can remember. From playing with toys, to writing fan-fiction, to writing four unpublished novels u2013 storytelling has always been a passion for him. At the same time video games were hugely influential for him growing up, and later in life finding D&D let him combine gaming and storytelling. Being able to now write for a D&D video game is like a dream come true.

Currently Playing: Destiny 2

Chris Dupuis
Executive Producer

Chris has a long history in board game design, working on such games as Heroscape, Risk Legacy, Betrayal at Baldur's Gate, and other Dungeons & Dragons games. He is a former Wizard of the Coast who fled to Canada to live out his dreams of eating poutine every day. After a few days, he decided that was a bad plan, but the team at Codename Entertainment is pretty cool so he's going to stay awhile.

Currently Playing: Star Trek Online

Sascha Jordan
Data Entry Technician

Sascha was raised on Dungeons and Dragons and local gaming conventions. They discovered their love for MMORPGS at the tender age of 9, and have played them ever since. They even met their spouse in one! Sascha started working at Codename in 2020, and has been enjoying watching our community grow through the Twitch channel. When they aren't working or gaming, they make art, do freeform roleplay, and collect adorable cat and/or bat-themed items.

Currently Playing: World of Warcraft

Pete Lee
Game Sys. Designer

Pete Lee is a game designer with a wide variety of games in his back catalog, such as Dungeons & Dragons, Magic: the Gathering, and numerous board games. Pete is currently focused on Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.

Currently Playing: Spider-Man

Nick Pettyjohn
Game Lead

Nick joined Codename as a Co-op student. We liked him so much that we never let him leave. In a bygone era, he was the main developer on Crusaders of the Lost Idols, but has since been the granddaddy bush master of Bush Whacker 2 for longer than he can remember.

When he's not cooking or playing with his rambunctious cat children, he enjoys facilitating local multiplayer games for friends and foes alike.

Currently Playing: Oxygen Not Included

Junwon Seo
Game Data Analyst

Meet Junwon, a game data analyst obsessed with understanding the 'Why'. With a passion for gaming and a love for data science, he can be found playing Magic: The Gathering or the latest Gacha games when he's not looking at tables and graphs.

Currently Playing: Honkai: Star Rail

Mark Bavis
Senior Developer

When Mark joined Codename in 2010 as a Co-op student, he had a lead role in the flash development of Bush Whacker. He has since been the lead developer on Mystic Guardians, Bush Whacker 2, Shards of Titan, the mobile version of Crusaders of the Lost Idols, and Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms. He is currently working on secret projects.

Currently Playing: Dad Simulator 2023

Jarret Kobler
Developer

Jarret started getting into programming in early high school. His passion games and programming would only grow over the years. He currently works Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms and has worked on many of the champions that have been released since he joined CNE in 2020.

Currently Playing: Cyberpunk 2077

Nathaniel Loman
Quality Assurance

Nathaniel is self-taught in 3D design and printing to satisfy his craving for movie and game memorabilia. He joined Codename in 2022 as a QA Technical Analyst to give back to the gaming community which has brought him so much joy.

Currently Playing: Sea of Thieves

Stefan Lynka
Junior Developer

Stefan made his first Table-Top RPG when he was 9. And it was terrible. Since then he's been making games that (he hopes) are just a bit better. After finishing his B.Sc in Computer Science, he joined Codename, where he works on Idle Champions, finally combining his love of D&D and video games. When he's not developing games at work... well he's developing games at home!

Currently Playing: Hearthstone

Peter Minter
Lead Developer

The first developer to join Codename in 2009, Peter has worked on the server systems of almost every project we have ever done. He is now the Lead Developer on Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.

Fun fact, his parents named him after their dog.

Currently Playing: Rocket League

Alex Steffler
Junior Developer

Alex joined Codename in 2021 as an eager developer shortly after completing his B.Sc in Computer Science. He's currently working on Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms. Alex enjoys the competitive aspect of gaming and spends way too many hours pursuing mastery of game mechanics. In his spare time, he livestreams his attempts at going fast in video games.

Currently Playing: Dark Souls

Nick Wilson
Junior Developer

Wilson graduated from the University of Victoria in 2019 and joined Codename in late 2020 to take over development of the Flash version of Crusaders of the Lost Idols. After the sunsetting of Crusaders in early 2022, he moved on to join the Idle Champions team. A tinkerer by nature, he spends altogether too much time building hardware and software to test ideas and solve problems. In his spare time you may also find him playing games.

Currently Playing: Hearthstone

Jesse Campbell
Artist

Jesse Campbell is a lifelong artist and creative type, who previously had a pact as a Graphic Designer in Vancouver. He always wanted to illustrate in the games industry, and now he's multi-classed as a 2D artist at CNE! (All that grinding and leveling up on the mainland really paid off! That, and no small number of successful saving throws). When Jesse isn't illustrating D&D things, he's writing fantasy/sci-fi horror books, riding horses, or getting new tattoos.

Currently Playing: Dungeons & Dragons

Kat Crane
Artist

Kat's academic art background focused on Illustration, and Comics & Graphic Novels. With their love of games and digital art, they infiltrated Codename in 2015 to add art to Egg Breaker Adventures. After EBA was sunset, they oversaw Crusaders as Lead Artist from 2019, increasing its spooky and queer content by 666% until it was also sunset in 2022. Currently Kat has been welcomed back to the Idle Champions team, which is easily strong enough to evade becoming a sunset hat trick.

Currently Playing: Valheim

Georgia Hewitt
Artist

Georgia has been a part of the team since May 2017. She is now the lead artist on Bush Whacker 2, but always helps out with other games when needed. Ever since she was young (and introduced to video games) it has been one of her dreams to work on the art for them!

Currently Playing: Hitman

Adam Kosh
Art Director

Adam's excellent illustrations and animations are seen throughout all of our games. Adam is also responsible for UI layout and design.

Currently Playing: Hi-Fi RUSH

Anita Ho
Artist

Anita is a children's book illustrator and freelance illustrator based in Vancouver, BC. After being introduced to D&D in 2017, Anita never imagined that combining her nerdy pastime and her hobby-turned-career would lead to an encounter with CNE. A deal was made and now Anita joins Idle Champions roster as one of their artists.

Other than drawing, she enjoys thrifting, playing D&D and vending at local art markets. You can find her work at www.anitartlet.com.

Currently Playing: Dungeons & Dragons

Bronwyn LeBlanc
Artist

A couple years after finishing Selkirk College's Digital Arts and New Media program, Bronwyn joined the Idle Champions team in March 2020. Bronwyn is one of the resident monster-makers, but she also helps create champions from time to time as well as many other cool things.

Currently Playing: Deep Rock Galactic

Ivy Lee
Artist

Ivy is a teammate fresh from over the sea who loves to learn new things all the time. Now she is learning how to survive in Victoria with a trusted team. Ivy is currently working on D&D monsters, backgrounds and key art for Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms.

Currently Playing: Disney: Twisted-Wonderland

Michelle Papadopoulos
Senior Artist

Michelle has been working as an Artist in the video game industry since 2003; working on various IP's. She joined Codename in 2017 as a 2D Artist and created a bunch of D&D monsters and skins for Idle Champions. Currently, she's working as a 3D Artist in cinematics.

When not at work you can find her playing with her daughter, ink and watercolor painting, freediving, and drinking tea.

www.michellepapadopoulos.com

Currently Playing: Minecraft

Maddie Plaut
Graphic Designer

Maddie has almost 10 years experience as a graphic designer and life-long experience as a hobby artist. Hailing from the Northeast USA, they're inspired by the beautiful, sprawling vistas of their sea-side hometown as well as beautiful, sprawling video games. When they're not designing for CNE, they do freelance art and design for various web series and YouTubers.

Currently Playing: Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Alexis Theroux
Lead Artist

Alexis has been working at Codename since 2011. Her drawings can be found in many of the games, starting with Egg Breaker 2 and continuing through to Idle Champions of the Forgotten Realms. She is currently the Lead Artist on Idle Champions, and monster creator on The Sketching Hour.

In her spare time she enjoys running through the forest with her dog Rocket and painting small watercolour illustrations.

Currently Playing: Dungeons & Dragons

Taylor Allen
Player Support Rep

An avid gamer, homebrewer, and forever DM - Taylor has been awoken from his thousand year slumber to personally answer all your ticketing needs.

Currently Playing: Currently staring at his Steam Library

Ryan Hall | ''Mars''
Content Creator

''Mars'' played our games so much for so long that we hired him. Now he hosts and produces hundreds of hours of content for our Twitch channel, moderates our online communities, and playtests upcoming content. Mars has a lifelong love for Dungeons & Dragons and stories in general. His passions include video games, podcasts, origami, woodburning, epic fantasy novels, and a good cup of tea.

Currently Playing: Dwarf Fortress

Gabe Jordan
Community Moderator

Gabe has been excited about games since a young age enjoying titles such as Metal Gear, Uncharted, and more. He has since moved onto D&D and MMORPGS as he's aged. When he's not gaming he can be found taking care of his various fish.

Currently Playing: World of Warcraft

Vee Mus'e
Partner & Talent Manager

Vee Mus'e joined Codename with a notable presence in the D&D community. Known as a professional Dungeon Master, player, and mini painter, Vee enjoys working with a variety of people within the TTRPG industry. As our Partner Manager, these connections come in quite handy for Idle Champions. When off the clock, she enjoys watching TV series like Penny Dreadful, creating and learning new things, and can be found on a variety of streams.

Currently Playing: Dungeons & Dragons

Lauren Urban
Content Manager

Lauren can usually be found making or supporting content somewhere on the internet. Often it's videos and streams for Idle Champions, sometimes it's playing and running games of Dungeons & Dragons for a variety of shows and podcasts, and as a professional classical musician on oboe and English Horn. When she's not playing a Bard in real life, Lauren lives in Seattle, Washington with her husband Luke where they spend their free time playing video games and drinking tea.

Currently Playing: D&D or Halo

Shawn Wall
Community Manager

Long time gamer and new time D&Der Shawn has always had a passion for a good story. Shawn joined Codename back in 2019 as Customer Support, taking that knowledge into multiple streams to help out where he can!

Currently Playing: Path Of Exile

Dylan Wilks
Marketing Director

If you ask his parents, Dylan has been playing video games far too much ever since they bought him an NES in 1986. Since then he has been an avid gamer, playing hundreds (perhaps thousands?) of games on NES, SNES, Genesis, Sega CD, PSX, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PS3, PS4, PS5, and a half dozen custom-built PCs. Dylan's career in communications has spanned everything from professional photography to videography, founding nonprofits, public relations, content marketing, and organizing large scale events.

Currently Playing: Destiny 2

We also employ co-op students from local universities. You can find the Co-op hall of fame here, and more information about applying to join us as a co-op student can be found on the Careers page.