2025 Speakers
Jarryd Huntley, Sr. Lead Optimization Engineer, Owlchemy Labs
Jarryd Huntley is Sr. Lead Optimization Engineer at VR studio, Owlchemy Labs. He plays important roles in Cleveland’s game development scene, as an educator running workshops and teaching classes, and as an organizer with the Cleveland Game Developers community group. He was lead programmer on the 2022 PS4/5 & Nintendo Switch game/music project, We are OFK, which notably was a recipient of a Peabody Award in 2024. He was also co-author of the 2017 book Game Programming for Artists. Jarryd was also an inductee in the Video Game Awards Future Class 2021. With talks at universities and conferences in places like Uruguay, Kyrgyzstan, and around the world, he brings a unique perspective by drawing on his experiences from enterprise software engineering and as a professional musician. Jarryd has marked his career by helping to create spaces and to help more marginalized voices get into programming and into game development. His studio, Polytundra LLC, has helped port console games like Quench, and EarthNight on Switch and PS4. Polytundra released its debut title Art Club Challenge in 2018, which was featured in the 2017 Smithsonian American Art Museum Arcade.
