Resume
Previously to working at 343i, Elan Gleiber was the CEO and Lead Designer at oddByte LLC as well as Lead Developer at Hashbang Games LLC, a contract game development company based out of Seattle, Washington, USA.
Elan graduated with BAs in Media & Information and Music from Michigan State University (MSU) where he trained in Video Game Design and Development. During his time at MSU, he was employed at the Games for Entertainment and Learning Lab (GEL) where he was a project lead and game designer. While in school he worked on over 10 different games with 6 from concept to completion. These games have ranged widely in platform and genre and have received multiple awards and acknowledgements.
Upon graduating, Elan founded oddByte LLC along with some fellow graduates from MSU. They spent a year and a half finishing development and releasing Rogues Like Us, a Hack n’ Slash rogue-lite game they had started while still students at MSU. During this year and a half, Rogues Like Us was a two time finalist at the Seattle Indie Game Competition and official selection at the Seattle Indies Expo, GDEX, and SIGGRAPH Indies with Intel.
Soon after founding oddByte, Elan also joined Hashbang Games LLC, and quickly rose to a lead developer position. His work at Hashbang focused on rapid prototyping for client contract games as well as systems design, development, and optimization on all titles.
After releasing his game Rogues Like Us with oddByte and working on multiple contract titles, Elan went on to join 343 Industries as a Sandbox Systems Designer, working on equipment such as the Grappleshot and Drop Wall.