James Valadas Marques

James Valadas Marques joined Escape Studios as a Game Design tutor in 2025, bringing over 15 years of industry experience of game development. James holds a BA (Hons) in Games Design from the University of Teesside.

Starting out in quality assurance, James followed his passion into game design, eventually becoming a Lead Designer at Stainless Games where he enjoyed supporting and mentoring junior staff. He has worked on titles like Dark Orbit, Carmageddon: Reincarnation and the Magic the Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers series.

In addition to digital games, James writes for tabletop roleplaying games, and designs card games like Dice Hoarding Dragons.