Gearbox Software
Director of New Media
Gearbox Software is the studio known for Brothers in Arms and later Borderlands. Scott held multiple titles over three years — Community Manager, Online Architect, Director of Applications, and finally Director of New Media — running a small team responsible for websites, online community, and internal tools. He grew and maintained one of the largest, most active game developer forums of the era, and built a custom PHP web framework from scratch for Gearbox's online properties before migrating the codebase to CakePHP as scope grew. His community systems — the Ban Bin forum jail, The Illuminate reward forum, Internal Combustion, Gearblogs, and ARG-style collaborative puzzle campaigns — pioneered rehabilitative moderation practices years before they became standard. MobyGames credits on three Brothers in Arms titles span community, engineering, and PR roles.
Key Achievements
- Grew and ran one of the largest, most active game developer forums of the era
- Built a custom PHP MVC framework from scratch; later led migration to CakePHP
- Pioneered rehabilitative moderation: only two users were ever jailed twice, none more