Pete Vigeant

Teaches at Playcrafting NYC

Pete Vigeant is a game, media and experience designer that creates large group live-action and digital games. As Director of Platform and Game Development at ESC, he works with a team to create a new video game platform for 30 simultaneous local players. Pete has designed over 10 brand new video games, such as Robot Basketball, Cube Ball, Feudal Football, Bee Racing, and Fruit Tattoo, and continues to advance the platform and make new games for the system. Previously, as a Senior Designer with ESI Design,  Pete drew upon his passion and expertise in game and youth-focused design to lead and develop interaction, media, concept, and game design for numerous ESI projects including theEdward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate and the PNC Fairfax Connection Community Center. Pete also created the ESI Game Lab where he launched a series of immersive live-action group experiences to promote collaboration through play, spectacle, and narrative gameplay. He has introduced ESI Game Lab experiences such as Super Bacon Grab 2, the Greatest Bacon Game Ever Played: The Return of the Bacon, Field Frogger, The 100 Games Everyone Should Play, and Field TD in public spaces, city wide festivals, and conferences around the country and the world. Pete is a founding partner of The Completely Surrounded, a consulting group that has worked with camps, colleges and institutions to bring live action games and training to thousands of participants. He also helps run theCome Out and Play Festival in New York and is the founder of Local Folks Multiplayer, an NYC-based meetup celebrating local multiplayer gaming.