Allison Mann

I've always been a fan and player of video games, and I studied fine art at Carnegie Mellon University with a background in electronic media and animation. I always knew that I wanted to be involved in creative tech in some way, so the interest in video games and my background in electronic media all just kind of led together. I've been playing video games as a content creator for the last 10 years, and that actually helped open the door for me professionally to go from being an online content creator into actually marketing games in a publishing setting. Now I'm the Senior Manager for the Game Capture team at 2K Games, where I manage a team of artists and folks within our creative marketing arm. We make the trailers, back-of-box images, website imagery, and everything that we release to show our video games to the public. One of my proudest accomplishments was in my first two weeks at 2K, when I had just gotten married and came back from my honeymoon. They basically said, 'okay, here you go, can you do it?' and I said, 'let's go, let's try!' That first project was a video game deep dive for Borderlands 3 for the E3 presentation. I've been working on the Borderlands franchise and the WWE 2K franchise for my entire career in video games, so I have a lot of interest and passion in those franchises. What I love most about my work is the folks I work with - incredibly talented artists and creators who care so much about the work and are always pushing me to be better. I also love being able to do something fun and creative that connects with fans. Our job is to invite players to come and play our games and prove to them how fun they are. If I'm having fun while I'm doing my job, that will be clear to our players and consumers as well. My job is to make fun, to have fun, and to invite other people to have fun.