Mark Heggen is an experimental game designer in New York City. As an early member of Area/Code Games, Mark was a central designer on games such as early Facebook hit Parking Wars and cult classic Drop7, as well as education and social intervention projects such as Macon Money and Budgetball. After the studio’s acquisition by Zynga, he went on to work on games with millions of daily players. Mark has designed dozens of card games, new sports, massively multiplayer games, alternate reality games, and a game you play with actual sharks. He also teaches game design at NYU, the New York Film Academy, and the University of Detroit.