About Us

Playmatics is founded by experts in the video game industry, Nick Fortugno and Margaret Wallace. Playmatics offers game design, development, help with product, brand or marketing strategy. Get more details on our services or contact us to set up a meeting.
 

Margaret Wallace, Founder

Margaret Wallace

Bio

Named by Next Generation as one of the Game Industry’s 100 Most Influential Women in 2006, Margaret Wallace is an entrepreneur and video game professional from the United States. She is most recently a founder of Playmatics in New York City, New York. Prior to co-founding Playmatics, Margaret was CEO of Rebel Monkey, a company focused on creating a massive free-to-play online game and platform. She was CEO of Skunk Studios for 5 years prior to Rebel Monkey, one of the first-ever casual game companies, based in San Francisco, California. Margaret has also designed and contributed to scores of online games and “creativity” applications while at Shockwave.com and at several other prominent companies during her 12-year career.

 

 
 

Nicholas Fortugno, Founder

Nick Fortugno, Founder, Playmatics

Bio

Nick Fortugno is a game designer and entrepeneur of digital and real-world games and a founder of Playmatics. From 2007-2009, Nick was the Chief Creative Officer of Rebel Monkey, a NYC online games company. Before Rebel Monkey, Fortugno was the Director of Game Design at gameLab, where he was a designer, writer and project manager on dozens of commercial and serious games, and served as lead designer on the downloadable blockbuster Diner Dash and the award-winning serious game Ayiti: The Cost of Life. Nick teaches game design and is also a co-founder of the Come Out and Play street games festival hosted in New York City and Amsterdam since 2006, and co-creator of the Big Urban Game for Minneapolis/St. Paul in 2003. Nick's most recent writing about games can be found in the anthology Well-Played 1.0: Video Game, Value, and Meaning, published by ETC-Press.