Joel Breton

Who is Joel Breton?

Joel Maximilian Breton is an international video game producer, video game designer, professor of game design, D.J. and entrepreneur. Joel is also known as an international super producer and he is best known for producing award winning video games including Bomberman Live, Unreal, Duke Nukem, Potty Racers, and Pirates of the Caribbean. Breton is also a professor of social game design at The Games Academy, where he teaches courses that focus on the key topics of compulsion loops, free-to-play game monetization, and social game virality.

Breton is a video game industry veteran who began his career in 1993 when he produced the Mortal Kombat World Championship at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. Since then he has produced, designed and created more than 30 video games across 22 console platforms. He has also created more than 100 online games that have been played billions of times at AddictingGames and across the web.

Joel's first role as a video game producer was for GT Interactive, where he produced Duke Nukem, Anno 1602, Unreal, the original Unreal Engine, and Doom, along with several other video games. While at GT, Breton successfully green-lit and launched the development cycle for No One Lives Forever until the game was passed on to Fox Interactive when GT was sold to Infogrames in 1999.