Bert Snow

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.