Emilia Schatz has been making games professionally for over 13 years and has been at Naughty Dog for six of them, where she worked on Uncharted 3 and The Last of Us. She is currently co-lead game designer for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, due to be released March 18th. Before Naughty Dog, she was at Terminal Reality in Dallas, where she shipped several titles including Ghostbusters: the Video Game and Bloodrayne 2. She’s known especially for her puzzles and level layout, and in fact the very first public gameplay reveals of both Uncharted 3 and 4 were of her level designs.

She is a graduate of the University of North Texas where she studied game development at the Laboratory for Recreational Computing. Assigned male at birth, in 2012 she began the process of gender transition, coming out at her studio in early 2014. She and her wife, an aspiring young adult fantasy novelist, live in Santa Monica together with their two spoiled, elderly cats.