Who is Massive Monster?

Named a ‘Breakthrough Brit’ by BAFTA, Jay originally started a career in International Geopolitics before ‘accidentally’ realising his dream of becoming a game developer. Since then he has created and shipped over 20 games for web, mobile, desktop and console.

Australian Game Developer Award winner, Julian is literally bursting with creativity. Doctors say it’s nothing to worry about. He shipped his first console game before leaving university and is based in Melbourne, Australia. He focuses on Creative direction and business development. His goal in life is to draw faces on anything he can find.

Whenever James isn’t rocking out in some band or another, he is indefatigable working on any game project he can get his hands on. Since starting his prolific game development career he has had a part to play in the creation of over 100 games. Almost all of them have cats in them.

When Harrison isn't fixing bugs on Cult of the Lamb, he's creating them. He loves to spend his time working on all things gameplay, from enemies and bosses to prototyping wacky ideas. Over the years he has worked on multiple commercial projects ranging from mobiles titles to PC and console.

Antony spent more than a decade making dozens of Flash games for the likes of Armor Games and others, and more recently worked as a game designer for SEGA. He also wrote and manufactured a Game Boy game in 2020 and loves VR so much he has a dedicated room for it in his house painted bright green.

JoJo is a writer and dramaturg across many mediums including games, multimedia, theatre and prose. She strives to give new angles on old stories, and loves to adapt the principles of storytelling for every method of delivery. She works hard to provide the best life possible for her cat, Biscuit.

Carles Dalmau is a Spanish comic artist whose illustrations are a perfect combination of cute and spooky. By drawing every day and working very hard on his characters, he’s created a series of cartoons that are addictive, and easy to admire. Colorful and incredibly detailed, these works take us for a fun adventure to Carles’ fantasy world.

Lorna has previously worked on a variety of games across all genres, and now looks after the wonderful Cult of the Lamb community. She gathers feedback, relays information, and loves to do fun things for the community. Powered by supermarket brand cola and copious amounts of sugar, her dream is to find the One Piece!

Valentin's passion is also his job: using his French tact to point out what's wrong with other people's hard work. After acting as a QA Tester for various Mixed Reality products and B2B software for years, he eventually worked his way to his true calling: video game testing, and is now at war against Cult of the Lamb's bugs!

Jan is a self-taught Italian artist and animator with over a decade of experience. His passion for animation and gaming merged in his acclaimed work, the Doom & Shroom Cult of the Lamb fan-animation. Jan prioritizes quality over quantity and constantly seeks self-improvement.

Meet Pooch, the studio manager extraordinaire! By day, they manage the chaos here at Massive Monster by slaying the email game and keeping things organised. By night, the work doesn’t stop for Pooch, as they also studio manage for their cat Trico, who runs a very tight ship at home.

Adrian is a gameplay programmer and designer with a background in music and audio, who is passionate about player fun, sandbox worlds and procedural generation. When not fixing bugs and dreaming up strange systems for NPC relationship dynamics, he moonlights as a jazzy swing dance teacher and plays the saxophone.

Angus has been making art and animation for indie videogames since 2011. His work has been BAFTA nominated, included in numerous showcases and has been exhibited in museums.

Aiden Mellor is an indie developer with a passion for design, computers, and all things pixelated. After a stint in the corporate world, Aiden decided to trade suits for sprites, diving headfirst into game development to rekindle their love for creativity and hands-on coding.

I’ve wanted to make games since primary school but started learning after high school, focusing on programming. While at university, I worked on business applications and explored Unity, 3D modeling, and prototyping. I later joined Knights of Unity and worked on Cult of the Lamb 🎮, which sparked my interest in VFX. Overall, I’m a generalist who loves all aspects of game development.

Ruby Innes Social Media Monster Ruby has been on the internet for more years than she hasn't. She's also had her grubby little fingers in more pies than a humble baker could make. Community radio hosting, games "journalisming", Twitch streaming, and now social media managing, all roads have led to where she is now: making stupid posts online for a games studio.

James keeps the Monster’s treasure chest in order, making sure the studio has enough gold coins to keep creating strange and wonderful worlds. Before joining Massive Monster, he spent nearly two decades in banking and finance across Europe, the Middle East and Asia learning how money behaves (and occasionally misbehaves). He’s also the co-founder of venture firm Rising Tide Investment, backing ambitious founders building the future. When he’s not wrangling spreadsheets, James can usually be found scuba diving, exploring reefs and occasionally thinking about how much simpler economies would be if you could just patch them.

Kelsey has over 15 years of experience in the games industry, with a special focus on herding cats and chaos wrangling (official terminology). Her contributions have earned her awards over the years, including being voted a top speaker at GDC for her talk on how games communities are doomed (ask her about it if you want to feel depression). She currently splits her time as "mom" (official role title) at New Blood Interactive, and here at Massive Monster as Producer. In her spare time she likes to get really dumb tattoos and volunteer as an event medic so she can see concerts and cool injuries for free.