Biography

Brian McRae is an award-winning and two time best selling designer working at the intersection of art, interactivity, and storytelling. With a classically influenced approach to game design and his fearless exploration into new genres and technologies, his work has touched millions around the world.

A lifelong lover of computer graphics and digital art, his work always begins with worldbuilding. With a combination of visualizing entire worlds paired with his obsessive attention to detail, he crafts immersive environments that feel lived-in, grounded, and cinematic. This sensibility is on full display in his latest work, Whispers in the Corn.

Forged from years in the trenches in AAA publishers, running independent studios and creative agencies, McRae favors a multi-project incubation model—allowing ideas to evolve over time, each simmering in its own space.

After his breakout mobile hit Roboto and the long-running success of Osiris: New Dawn, he explored the outer edges of possibility in the space exploration genre and found new creative territory in Orbital Electric and Martian Genesis.

But McRae doesn’t just create worlds—he creates platforms. He is currently developing Odyssey Stream, a new platform and virtual console set to pioneer an all-new category of interactive entertainment.