Lead Game Designer, Muzzylane
Bert Snow is the VP of Design at Muzzy Lane Software, and a designer with wide interests and a history of innovation in game design. Bert leads Muzzy Lane’s design group, and with the Muzzy Lane team has designed award-winning projects including the social-history game Past/Present, Making History, McGraw-Hill Practice Marketing, an immersive language-learning game for Middlebury Interactive Languages and others. Current projects include Quit-It, a game to help cancer patients practice smoking -cessation skills and others. Before joining Muzzy Lane, Bert was a founder and lead designer of Virtual Music, a company that pioneered the music-game genre. There, Bert designed several groundbreaking music-gaming titles including Quest for Fame (starring Aerosmith). Virtual Music was acquired by Namco . Bert also has been very involved in the creation of the River Valley Charter School, a public Montessori-based school. He holds a BA from Williams College, and is an active electric bass player.