Nick Fortugno is the senior game designer at gameLab, where he has been a designer, writer and project manager on dozens of digital and nondigital games.

Most recently he was lead designer on the downloadable hit Diner Dash. As a member of the Playground design team, Fortugno was a co-creator of the Big Urban Game, a large-scale, city-wide game for the cities of St. Paul and Minneapolis, played by thousands of residents in fall 2003.

Fortugno also teaches game design and interactive narrative design at Parsons School of Design in New York City.