Game Designer
Year of death: 2024
An Italian-born American game designer, who is perhaps best known for her work as lead designer on Full Spectrum Warrior (2004) and creative director of Free Realms (2009). Laralyn McWilliams also wrote and designed for such games as Disney’s Stitch: Experiment 626 (2002), Over the Hedge (2006), Gears of War 4 (2016), Archangel (2017) and The Walking Dead: Saints and Sinners (2020). Latterly, she was principal creative design director for customer success engineering at Microsoft. Among her many industry accolades garnered across her career was a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards in 2021.
