Jeff Lander is an American

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. He creates real-time 3D graphics at Darwin 3D, a game technology specialist company. He has written several articles on 3D graphics for

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and

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. In 2002, he received the

IGDA The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) is a nonprofit professional association whose stated mission is to "support and empower game developers around the world in achieving fulfilling and sustainable careers." The IGDA is incorpo ...

Award for Community Contribution at the

Game Developers Choice Awards The Game Developers Choice Awards are awards annually presented at the Game Developers Conference for outstanding game developers and games. Introduced in 2001, the Game Developers Choice Awards were preceded by the Spotlight Awards, which were ...

. Lander co-founded the Game Tech conference event with

Chris Hecker Christopher Bryan Hecker (born 1970) is an American video game programmer and commentator. He is the founder of the gaming company Definition Six and best known for his engineering work on Will Wright's 2008 game '' Spore''. Hecker is an advocat ...

, and, in 2004, co-designed it with

Jonathan Blow Jonathan Blow (born 1971) is an American video game designer and programmer. He is best known for his work on the independent video games ''Braid'' (2008) and '' The Witness'' (2016). Born in California, Blow developed a passion for game progra ...

. In 2009, Jeff Lander and

Bob Rafei Babak "Bob" Rafei ( fa, بابک رافعی) is an Iranian video game art director, character animator and concept artist. He is the CEO of Big Red Button Entertainment, a video game development studio he co-founded with Jeff Lander in 2009. Ra ...

founded Big Red Button Entertainment, a video game development studio. Lander is the studio's technical director, and served in this role for their debut game, '' Sonic Boom: Rise of Lyric''.

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