GodotCon Boston 2026

Graphics guy

I’ve been a programmer for over 19 years. In that time I’ve worked on games, large frontend projects, enterprise backend products, fun little tools, and algorithmic artwork.

I've been using godot since around 2016 and have been very active in the discord community for a few years.

Chad Stewart is one of the organizers and is abusing his powers to give a talk.

Chris is the founder of KAR Games, working on the early access title Drift: Space Survival and previously shipped the multiplayer update for Dome Keeper. Before getting into games, Chris spent a decade in the startup world as a serial founder and CTO. His three kids are likely to be seen climbing on him during Discord calls.

Clay is a Technical Director at W4 games where he helps provide best-in-class console ports for Godot and support services for projects in the Godot ecosystem. He has been contributing to Godot since the early days of Godot 3. He is also a board member for the Godot Foundation.

By day I build Theater, by night I build games! I have been working in Godot for about 5 years now with a few small games completed (one big one in the works) and have been honing my design skills every day. I have too many hobbies like miniature painting, skiing, gaming, and more so come strike up a conversation so I can find out yours!

Cory Darby is the co-creator of A Game About Feeding A Black Hole which has gross more than $1M in sales. He jumped into game development after spending 15 years in software development. His theory is that indies fail mainly because their games are unclear, unmarketable, overbuilt, or boring too early. He would like to help fix that.

David leads the Professional Services team at W4 Games, and is a Godot maintainer on the XR and GDExtension teams. In his free time, he likes to make his own silly little games in Godot.

I'm the developer of Shiny Gen, a game maker app made with Godot, and the developer of Godot WebGPU. I previously graduated from MIT and worked at Autodesk, Lightmatter, and Amazon as a machine learning software engineer and 2 years ago went full-time on solo game development for Shiny Gen.

Eric loves making games and drawing little guys.

After a decade of tinkering with Unity, he found Godot and has never looked back.
Eric is focused on making tiny games and uploading them onto itch.io
He's a contributing member of Tiny Mass Games and spoke at Boston GodotCon 2025!

He does his work under the name "Baja the Frog" online.

I am a Massachusetts artist and educator with a BFA in Illustration from Maine College of Art and a MAT in Art and Design Education from Rhode Island School of Design. I have been teaching art since 2008. Currently I teach game dev to high school students using Godot, along with other digital arts classes. I also record tutorials for Xogot.

Godot Lead Android Maintainer

Creator and maintainer of the Godot Android Editor and of the Godot XR Editor

Hein-Peter van Braam is a Godot Foundation member and the founder of Prehensile Tales, a Godot consultancy.

Game Developer from Minnesota, working on Dice Gun Commando!

I've made games in Godot since 2019, and continue to love working with it and helping it grow. Dice Gun Commando is my latest Godot project.

Julian is an independent game developer, most known for Year Unknown. He currently works and resides in Buffalo, New York.

Justin Bourque is an educator with 15+ years in K-12 and digital learning. He designs creative, inclusive programs using video game design to teach future-ready skills, blending tech integration, instructional design, and playful, student-centered learning.

Experienced software and video game developer. BSc in Mathematics. Interested in game development using open source tools? Check out my educational Godot Engine content on YouTube!

I'm a senior engineer at Photon Engine. I've spent close to ten years making multiplayer tools and helping people build multiplayer games.

I've worked on open-source Unity netcode including Netcode for GameObjects, and I'm active in many multiplayer dev support communities. I'm now bringing that experience to Godot with Photon's new Godot SDKs.

Maddy Montaquila is a Principal Product Manager at Microsoft and the product lead for Aspire. She’s been building dev tools at Microsoft since 2018 - before Aspire, she worked across the .NET stack and brought .NET MAUI to life. Her focus is on making modern developers lives as easy as possible.

Coming from a background in software engineering in the Bay Area. I started at a game publisher, moved to the edu-tech space, and then a couple of years ago, made the switch to game dev full-time. I've since participated in over 30 game jams and have released a suite of plugins on the Godot Asset Library.

I am a full-stack and independent game developer

Miguel de Icaza is a Mexican-American software developer and open-source advocate best known for founding the GNOME desktop environment, the Mono project, and Xamarin. Starting with Midnight Commander in 1994, he became a leader in free software, co-founding Ximian and later championing cross-platform development with Mono and Xamarin.

A local game developer who's been working on technical Godot projects and games since 2020. I used Godot to gather data for my senior thesis in college!

Game Developer and Youtuber. Made Endoparasitic, Voyager-19, and Wrought Flesh.

Pablo is COO of W4 Games, with over 30 years in computer graphics spanning games, animation, and automotive. He started his career as a 3D artist and moved into leadership and management roles across the industry before joining W4.

Rawb is a lifelong self-taught artist and Psychologist with almost a decade of experience working with indie games, currently solo-developing an RPG, “The Tennis Academy”. He was previously an Art Director at Whitethorn Games, and has worked on concept art, character design, and UI for various indie projects. He also designed Godotcon’s art assets.

Sam is a game designer and software engineer in Cambridge, MA.

Hey there! I'm a Godot enthusiast who has been using the engine since 2019, working on various game and tool projects along the way. It's been a joy to witness all the engine improvements in that time.

Now I'm working with some friends on our upcoming Godot-made game TurnTide Tales, a swashbuckling tactics adventure!

I've released 150+ open source projects on GitHub, I've won awards for Best in VR and Best of Accessibility at the 2020 MIT Reality Hack, I run the Purple Monkey Game Jam and a Global Game Jam site, given talks at Boston Game Dev meetups, a workshop at GodotCon Boston, and I just released my first game for mobile platforms called Flip Jacks.

Sonal Kalra is the Boston-based founder of CONNECT Meditation and a certified meditation teacher. She blends Eastern wisdom, modern science, psychology, HR, and trauma-sensitive practices to help leaders, teams, and communities build clarity, resilience, focus, emotional intelligence, and authentic connection.

Tom Schultz is a game and interactive museum developer from Rhode Island. They have two dogs, love ice cream and lefse, and wear too many hats. Tom is also the treasurer for SceneTree, the non-profit behind GodotCon US.

Werner Mendizabal is a full-time game developer, software engineer, artist, and musician building open-source audio tools for Godot. He is the creator of godot-csound, godot-lv2-host, godot-vst3-host, and godot-distrho, projects focused on real-time synthesis, plugin hosting, and interactive audio.