Dr. Mitu Khandaker of Glow Up Games

Robin Hunicke chats with Dr. Mitu
Khandaker about her journey around the world and into
the games industry, finding her feet at teaching, building games
from the ground up rooted in diverse cultural experiences, and
about representation issues facing the games industry and ways to
help financially support creators of color.


Dr. Mitu Khandaker is CEO & co-founder of
Glow Up Games, a new mobile free-to-play games
& creative tech studio building systems-driven games for
diverse audiences. She is also Assistant Arts Professor at the
NYU Game Center, where she teaches game design
and development. She holds a PhD on designing games for immersive
interfaces such as VR, and has a background in computer
engineering.