Jarrod grew up in Washington state. He graduated from DigiPen Institute of Technology as a game designer and was quickly hired by Amazon as a software developer instead. After years of working in non-game and game-adjacent spaces, he’s excited to put his developer skills to use at Poorly Timed Games! When Jarrod isn’t making games, he’s probably playing, streaming, or watching other games. He and Rowan enjoy cooking and baking together at home.

Rowan is a Seattle-area artist who is excited to work with industry veterans after her brief time at Amazon creating art for internal games. She creates a science-fantasy webcomic and enjoys D&D, video games, cooking, and petting Sophie, the softest cat in the world.

Jarien has been drawing since he was old enough to pick up a crayon. He’s done 3D art for many projects including indie games, AAA games, educational software, VR and AR experiences, archaeological reconstruction, and product visualization.

For fun he reads comics and science fiction, writes stories and poems, goes to metal shows, and is trying to get back into practice on guitar. He’s excited to create imaginative characters for meaningful stories at Poorly Timed Games.

Before he became a 3D Artist, Helmut worked as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital. After fatherhood and an existential crisis, he changed tracks to become a digital artist, trusting fate that he’d made the right choice.

He spent several years at Scanline VFX—during which he worked on Bumblebee, Stranger Things, and other exciting stuff—and now he’s tackling new, exciting challenges. After a hard day’s work on digital creatures, he enjoys Bavarian beer along with his setup of analog synthesizers.

Lauren is an illustrator and comic artist out of Arizona. She’s been a contributor to many independent project such as DALLAR comics. Inspired by cinematography and poetry, Lauren is passionate about creating impactful and emotional art. When she’s not drawing, Lauren enjoys indoor gardening, horror genre video games, and her two cats.

Chris moved to the West Coast in 2001 and has cut his teeth at some of the coolest tech & game companies out there, including Tableau Software, Twilio, Blizzard Entertainment and Bungie. When he isn’t making games, Chris enjoys cooking and giving way too much attention to his cats and corgi.

William Wright (“Will”) is author or editor of over twenty nationally published books. He has four books forthcoming, including Grass Chapels: New & Selected Poems (Mercer University Press, 2021). Will was named Writer-in-Residence at the University of Tennessee in 2016, and that same year was selected as the Georgia Author of the Year by the Georgia Writers Association. Will was named Editor of the Year in 2015 by the Georgia Center for the Book and has won numerous prizes for his literary and editorial work. His most recent teaching gig was as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Emory University (2017-2020). Will loves pondering esoteric stuff, including theoretical astrophysics, botany, exotic mathematics, and postlapsarian media.Will has been gaming since 1983, when his father introduced him to the Atari 2600.