Burning North is the internet pseudonym of one dude with a vision and an ample supply of unrealized potential. George Kokoris has been chasing his dream of becoming a game designer ever since his fateful encounter with Myst at the age of 7.

Raised in the untamed wilderness of upstate New York with a pack of dogs in lieu of siblings, George developed a vivid imagination that, left unattended, slowly overcame his rational faculties and transformed his mind into a virtually limitless conveyor belt of fiction, rhetoric, and utter nonsense. Sadly, this power also came packaged with a degree of self-motivation commonly associated with certain species of jellyfish. Following a five-year film school misadventure, George finally decided to take his ambition seriously and enrolled at Full Sail University in early 2009.

As a member of the illustrious Squadron of Shame, George occasionally podcasts about underappreciated games of the past, argues passionately about the need for artistic integrity in the video game industry and rambles incessantly about niche games that no one else cares about. Give a listen, won’t you?

George has a number of game projects in various stages of preproduction, and lives in perpetual anticipation of the day they are set free to turn the world’s children into soulless killing machines.