Meet the Team

Bentley HG

Bentley is a supporting artist for Golden Character Design as well as a big fan of the studio’s work. He’s thrilled to contribute to the work of the studio and looks forward to seeing the company flourish.

Background with Games

Bentley has been enjoying video games since the days of the original NES. He remains inspired by the way the technical limitations of the time led to creativity and cleverness that shapes the game industry to this day. Bentley remains a Nintendo fanboy with a particular fondness for the Zelda franchise. He’s also thrilled that his family has come to share his love of Nintendo games and has spent many lovely hours in his wife’s Animal Crossing island. A highlight of recent gaming years was passing the controller back and forth with his daughter through a complete playthrough of Super Mario Odyssey.

Beyond the wonderful world of Nintendo, Bentley’s interest in video games spans a breadth of genres and formats. In particular Bentley returns often to RPGs, survival-crafting sims, and strategy games. Some recent favorites include Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, Subnautica, and Tactical Breach Wizards.

Bentley’s also been known to join friends for table-top roleplaying games. He’s both played in and served as Dungeon Master for long running Dungeons and Dragons campaigns.

Background with Game Development

Way back in middle school was the first time Bentley was brave enough to assert that he’d be a Game Designer when teachers asked what he wanted to be when he grew up. Back then most teachers didn’t understand what that was or whether that was even a real job. In those days Bentley didn’t really know what that job looked like either, or how to work a computer, so he instead got started by spending a lot of time making fan comics for Earthbound and Final Fantasy VI and coming up with new bad guys for Mega Man.

Eventually Bentley found his way into a Game Art and Design program at the Art Institute of Las Vegas where he was able to hone his skills as an artist while also finally picking up some computer skills. Bentley got his first true taste of video game development while serving as the producer for a nine month long capstone project during his senior year. Along with other team leads Bentley led a student development team of fifteen artists and designers to develop Thrive, a third-person action adventure game that put the player into the role of a warrior gorilla fighting against an alien threat.

After college Bentley had picked up enough computer skills to get jobs working in IT and web development, but has stayed connected to the video game industry through a series of personal projects and contract work. Those projects have included games for web, mobile, and an educational game for math classrooms.

Additional Work

Bentley finds game development work to be the most fulfilling work but has found success in other fields of work as well. He has over ten years of experience as a web designer and developer and has also worked in leadership roles in IT support. In all of his work, Bentley aims to be a creative, decisive, and an amiable team player.

He is currently working with the Nevada System of Higher Education as a Senior Web Designer where he’s able to enjoy a mix of technical and artistic challenges while doing his part to improve education efforts throughout the state.

Personal Life

Bentley lives in Las Vegas along with his wonderful wife and daughter. He also lives with an orange cat who is less wonderful but loved all the same.

A favorite fascination for Bentley is adventure sports and he can be found in skateparks throughout the valley looking like a millennial mid-life crisis. At over 40 he can still bust out a kickflip and is still progressing as an athlete. Realizing that his time as an elderly skater might come to an end after one or two good slams, he’s more recently become enchanted by the adventure of scuba diving and the limit-breaking battles of distance running.