Passion Meets Purpose Spotlight Features Gameplay Designer For EA Sports

Passion: Developing great video games

Purpose: Bring joy to people’s lives by way of digital entertainment

Favorite Quote: Ask for forgiveness, Not permission

Brief Bio:

Victor A. Lugo grew up as a military brat. He received his first video game console, a Nintendo Entertainment System, at age 5 and fell in love with gaming. He later on moved to Japan at age 9 where he  lived for 3 years. During his time in Japan, Victor experienced a wide variety of unique games and decided that he wanted to be a game designer.

Victor graduated from Aberdeen High School in 2002 and went on to pursue the steps to meet his passion at University of Miami where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Computer Engineering. He later obtained a Masters in Interactive Entertainment from the University of Central Florida’s Florida Interactive Entertainment Academy, while working part time as a software engineer at Walt Disney World.

Right out of Graduate School, Victor was hired to be a designer on EA SPORTS MMA, his first AAA console title. Currently Victor is gameplay Designer for NCAA Football and Madden NFL games.