"Rob is a knowledgeable, thoughtful designer. He always has resources and tools to suggest for solving design problems. He's also fun, great person who is easy to collaborate with." - John Murphy, ChicagoQuest

"Robert is a great game designer who played a major role in helping the game I was designing to go from idea to reality. His vast experience in designing casual games and games for learning for a variety of platforms, was paramount to the success of the project he worked with me on. In addition his professionalism in terms of communication, meeting deadlines, and overall work ethic made him a joy to work with." - André R. Denham, Games for Learning Laboratory @ The University of Alabama

"Rob was great to work with! We partnered to coordinate the Field Museum's first ever Science Game Jam in 2013. Rob's experience and connections were key to the success of the event and to the quality of the experience. Rob's unique set of skills made him equally comfortable with the Museum staff, the game developers, and the educators." - Audrey Aronowsky, Biodiversity Synthesis Center @ The Field Museum

Contracting & Consulting

Important Little Games is excited to offer contracting services as a designer and developer of Games for Learning.  We can tackle projects with any learning goal as our target, and we offer services at various stages of game development:

  • Pre-Production Research
  • Ideation and Formal Recommendations
  • Design Documents (visual and textual)
  • Wireframes
  • Production/Planning
  • Agile (Iterative) Design and Development
  • Full Implementation including Art, Sound, etc.
  • Playtesting and Efficacy Testing
  • Deployment
  • Analytics

Please contact bobbylox@importantlittlegames.com for more information.

Previous Projects

Paw and Order: Furry Victims Unit

Project funded by Hive Chicago in conjunction with the Chicago Anti-Cruelty Society, Games-based Charter School Chicago Quest, and Important Little Games to make a game that raises awareness of Animal Cruelty and teaches some of the methods for investigating these crimes.

The Internet Needs Cats

Made in collaboration with the University of Alabama Teacher’s College, a game which aims to teach the principles of multiplication.  Used within a research study of effective methods.

Be a World Leader

A game made with a team from The Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum as part of an exhibit “Nature’s Struggle: Survival and Extinction,” which showed the possible environmental and societal consequences of high-level policy decisions.

Game Design Workshop: YMCA

Along with John Murphy of ChicagoQuest and Young Horses, a participatory presentation on learning game design practice and methods.

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  1. Hello Important Little Games!
    

    My name is Alex Spiers, I am a local music composer and fellow member of the Chicago Chapter of IGDA. I wanted to reach out and let you know that I would be very interested in working with you in the future, should you need any custom composition work! I love your mission and would love to partner with you. You can see some of my latest work at alexspiers.com/listen . A little about me, I am a Chicago composer finishing my Master’s degree in Composition through Berklee College of Music. I recently finished working on a short film called Warmth that will premiere in May and have done some promotional work for games in the past. I am looking to move more into that arena. If you have any questions, would like a demo, or would just like to chat, please reach out! Thanks so much for reading and I hope you guys are all healthy and well in these trying times. 
    

    Alex Spiers

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