Osama Dorias (2022)

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April 25, 2024

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Lead Content Designer, Blizzard Entertainment

Osama Dorias is a Lead Content Designer at Blizzard Entertainment and a career game designer who has worked at Warner Brothers, Ubisoft, Gameloft, Unity, GEE Media, and Minority Media.

He is currently also teaching game design at Dawson College and is the chair of the International Game Developers Association’s Muslims in Games Special Interest Group. Osama loves to empower people in expressing themselves through game making.

He especially loves to give a voice to marginalized people and causes. Osama has hosted game jams, workshops and other community activities to this end, which has culminated in co-founding the Montreal Independent Games Awards.

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