Tyler Coleman is a senior game systems designer, as well as an independent game developer, with 10 years experience working across many genres from film tie-ins to projects with the US Military. Tyler's focus is primarily on systems design, with a specialty in economy and RPG progression systems, and idle games. He is most well known as the creator of Merchant, a heavily economy-driven mobile game, along with its sequels. Tyler has been named as one of Forbes' "30 under 30" in games, as well as a key member of the Denius Sam Gaming Academy, a leadership in games program hosted by Warren Spector. In his spare time, he dabbles in procedural generation, machine learning GANs, and increasingly in AI tools as they relate to creative endeavors