Courses taught:
- Announcing the 2024 Alfred P. Sloan Grant Recipient: Bloomsome
Eric Monacelli is an Executive Producer for Marvel Games. He is Marvel’s supervising project lead for multiple franchises, including the Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise, and the upcoming Marvel’s Wolverine game, having most recently shipped Marvel’s Spider-Man 2. He manages the teams working with Electronic Arts on the upcoming Iron Man project, as well as the team working on Marvel’s 1943: Rise of Hydra. He leads game development collaboration, ensures game brand authenticity, oversees game franchise and creative strategy, and spearheads cross-functional planning across multiple Marvel gaming projects. He also represents Marvel Games for select Marvel and Disney corporate initiatives.
He has worked at Infinity Ward (Call of Duty), Naughty Dog (The Last of Us, UNCHARTED), Capcom (Monster Hunter, Resident Evil, Devil May Cry, Okamiden), 2K Games (MLB, NBA, Civilization, Borderlands, BioShock, Elder Scrolls), and Atari (Ghostbusters) in various production, communications, and marketing roles having launched multiple award-winning and best-selling video games in his career. He’s spent nineteen years in the gaming industry and is credited on over 40 games in Production, Marketing, and even VO roles. His first major title shipped was 2K’s BioShock in 2007.
He has been a guest speaker at Harvard, MIT, NYU, and Penn State, a Forbes 30 under 30 judge, a mentor for AIAS, an AIAS/DICE Awards judge, a Games for Change Judge, and has served on the SXSW Gaming Advisory Board.