Our Mission

Forged in Competition. Built for Players.

We don’t just build games, we craft competitive experiences that challenge, engage, and endure. With deep roots in multiplayer development, and a passion for innovation, our team brings together expertise in Unreal, game design, AAA production values, and storytelling to bring unforgettable digital worlds to life.

Leadership

Brad Strong

CEO, Creator, Creative Director

Brad is a creative force with roots in graffiti, 3D, animation, and design. A competitive gamer with encyclopedic knowledge, he’s the mind behind Arctura.

Parker A. Davis

President, COO, Exec. Producer

Parker is a veteran designer and producer with 30+ years leading major game projects across genres and platforms, working with top publishers like Eidos/Square-Enix, Rockstar, Activision, and more.

Hokyo Lim

CCO & Studio Art Director

Veteran game creator, League of Legends Art Director/Co-Creator, and ex-Smilegate Head of Studio whose credited titles (LoL, Sly Cooper, The Unfinished Swan, and The Long Dark, etc.)

34-year veteran of the gaming industry. Mike set technical strategies and led development at studios including EA/Maxis, Sony, Fox Interactive, Cryptic Studios, and Vivendi Universal Games.

Mike Heilemann

CTO

With over two decades in the industry, Chris has created art on numerous projects (Avatars 2.0, Valorant) at studios including Meta, Riot Games, Disney Imagineering, Microsoft, and Pandemic Studios.

Christopher Hunt

Art Director

David Ray

Lead Engineer & Tech Director

Veteran game developer with over 30 years of industry experience, Contributed to titles including World of Warcraft, Diablo IV, WildStar, LEGO 2K Drive, Icewind Dale and Call to Power II in senior engineering roles.

Unreal Engine artist/Technical Director with a background in feature film, animation and games, at studios including Disney and Amazon.

Morgan Ghan

Lead Artist

Principal Game Designer, Strategist, former Arrivant VP of Design, and DOTA AllStars/DOTA 2 Principal Systems Designer.

JT James

Expert Competitive Game Design Advisor

Eric Jean Weiss is an award-winning multimedia professional with over 30 years of experience in video games, film, and television production, specializing in project management, investment relations, and leadership in interactive media.

Eric Jean Weiss

Director of Strategic Growth

Carey Chico

MBA, Advisor

Expert Product Management & Business Advisor with a track record launching 35+ products that delivered a combined $1.5B in revenue including Star Wars: Battlefront I & II and Marvel Avengers.

Our Expertise

At Better Demon, it’s all about the people. Our team of veteran developers and designers have shipped games from the Sega Genesis era to modern AAA blockbusters, building communities and unforgettable worlds along the way. With diverse backgrounds and decades of experience, we bring passion and creativity to every step, and we’re still growing as we build Arctura.

The Team

2D/Concept Art

Yoann Vitry

Senior Conceptual Designer

Senior concept artist with 12+ years of experience on titles such as Endless Space 2 and Act of Aggression.

Bobby Rebholz

Senior Conceptual Designer

Senior concept artist specializing in creatures and characters with credits spanning games, film, and Love, Death & Robots.

Francis Quintino

Concept Artist

A multi-disciplined artist and designer, skilled across the full creative pipeline, with over a decade of experience spanning illustration, branding, and UI/UX design. 

UI/UX

Joey Cutler

UI/UX Artist

Multidisciplinary 2D artist and graphic designer with 5+ years of indie game experience.

3D Art

James Davidson

Lead 3D Artist

CG supervisor with 25 years in film and TV VFX, most recently on Monsters At Work for Disney+.

Sanket Tonde

3D Character Artist

is a Senior 3D Character Artist with over eight years of AAA experience driving visual excellence for industry-defining IPs. His portfolio features defining contributions to God of War Ragnarok.

Nathan Plante

Senior VFX Artist

A talented VFX artist with 6 years of experience in VR gaming who contributed a range of vfx across Deadpool VR and Lone Echo II.

Animation

Bryan Cox

Sr. 3D Artist /Animator

Sr 3D artist and animator with 30+ years of experience in character animation, simulation, previs, and visual effects across film, TV, and games.

Bryce Erickson

Senior Animator

Sr Animator with credits across games, cinematics, film, and TV including Wasteland 3 and Destroy All Humans.

Robert Campbell

Senior Tech Animator/Artist

12 years of Animation, Rigging and Tool Development experience on various titles including Marvel Avengers, Last of Us Part 2, Last of Us Remastered, Death Stranding 2, and Forever Winter.

Game Design

Philipp Hagen

Principal Tech Designer

Technical designer with 15 years of AAA experience on Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and The Division series.

Nathan Bui

Senior Systems Designer

Veteran system designer specializing in live-service games across titles such as Marvel Strike Force, Game of War, Mobile Strike and World War Rising.

Kai Tran

Principal Tech Designer

Combat and enemy designer with nearly a decade of experience across AAA and Indie projects.

Zixin Ma

Game Designer

Game designer with 5 years of experience on titles like Harry Potter: Magic Awakened and LifeAfter.

Engineering

Benjamin Reinhart

Lead Engineer

Veteran game engineer with 10+ years in games, AR, and digital twins, focused on building intuitive tools and mentoring developers.

Jack Hanley

Senior Engineer

Senior gameplay engineer, and architecting in tools, networking and content authoring, with specialization in Unreal Engine.

Eric Hammervold

Engineer

Technology executive and entrepreneur specializing in cloud infrastructure, SaaS, and scaling engineering teams.

Sound Design

Gary Spinrad

Audio Director

Veteran sound designer and audio director with 30+ years of experience on franchises like Call of Duty and Halo.

Sean Popejoy

Senior Sound Designer

Senior sound designer with 18 years of experience across games, film, VR, hardware, and music technology.

Writers

Neil Schnepf

Writer

Narrative and technical writer with 10+ years of experience in branching narratives, worldbuilding, and quest design.

Nathaniel Lucas

Writer

Fantasy and science fiction writer focused on character, worldbuilding and narrative.p

Dmitri Smith

Writer

Building characters and worlds, and bringing them to life with layered stories.