Meet the Instructors

Dylan Mayo

Principal Game Designer, The Pokémon Company International

Dylan Mayo started as a programmer for GameBoy Color RPG in 2000 and then moved into a game designer role to help re-write the rules on the accompanying Trading Card Game. Next, Mayo started his own trading card game company and worked on Magic and Dungeons & Dragons projects before landing at Pokémon.

Mayo has driven the product development of the Pokémon Trading Card Game for 13 years, but now is stepping into another secret role. His interests include economics, economic systems in games, artificial intelligence, intelligent agents and poker.