About Us

Big Owl Interactive is a game development company established amongst friend, based in Batavia, Illinois. This company was born out of a desire to build upon a medium we have all spent years enjoying. More than just an avenue for profit, we want to make experiences that are both fun to play, and thoughtfully engage with the ongoing dialogue of the game industry. We hope to create worlds and communicate ideas that leave a lasting impression on our players.

We are not just a video game company, however, as our passion also extends to the tabletop. We host a small fleet of FDM and resin printers ready for your next miniatures project, and our office is as much a space for running RPGs and wargames as it is a place of development. We believe in a cross-discipline approach to game making and enjoyment; our team is equally apt at crafting both virtual and physical experiences.

Meet the Team

  • Bryon Karger

    Co-Founder, Developer

    Just a kid that liked video games enough to download the Unity engine one Friday evening after school. I learned to code watching intensely fascinating YouTube tutorials and reading supremely boring APIs. I have a love for detailed, well crafted, and lived-in worlds of fantasy and science fiction. BOI was born from the fires of disappointment and mediocrity, fancy way of saying I got fed up with a game one night and figured I could do better. Shortly after I contacted my colleagues, we got to work, and the rest is history.

  • Andrew Scott

    Co-Founder, Project Manager

    Andrew Scott is a recent graduate of Yale University with a degree in Computer Science and History. He excels at combining completely unrelated disciplines in a way that vaguely makes sense. He performs a variety of tasks at Big Owl, such as managing financials, organizing meetings, and rearranging the office to free up one more square foot of space. Hobbies include singing and painting miniatures.

  • Ben Schneider

    Co-Founder, Senior Developer

    Ben Schneider is one of the founding members of Big Owl Interactive, and a Computer Science student at the University of Illinois. His main focus is in procedural generation and backend implementation of mechanics. His favorite games are science-fiction, open-world titles, including No Man's Sky and Xenoblade Chronicles X. Beyond Big Owl Interactive, Ben enjoys creative writing, also with a focus on science fiction.

  • Kevin Im

    Composer, Developer

    Kevin Im is an aspiring game designer from Los Angeles, California, focusing on music composition and programming. He majors in computer science at Yale University, and spends most of his free time playing indie games or writing music. His favorite games include OMORI, Hollow Knight, and the Persona series.

  • Ethan Deaton

    Head Writer

    "I'm the head writer, and the head blacksmith, and the company educator, and the company reeducator, and the biggest guy."

    -Ethan

  • Justin Gugliuzza

    Operations Manager

    Justin Gugliuzza is Big Owl's leading mechanical designer. Having gone to school for mechanical engineering and design, and grown up fixing a variety of machines and vehicles, he is equipped with the skills and knowledge to design anything Big Owl needs or requires. When he’s not working on designs for a project you can also find him hard at work keeping all of Big Owls’ machines up and running.