Matthew Burns is the founder of Shadegrown Games, developers of the musical shooting game Planck, which received an Honorable Mention in the Audio category at the 2011 IGF. In a previous life, he was a producer at Bungie and 343 Industries on the Halo series. He is a columnist for Game Developer magazine, writes the Magical Wasteland blog, and has written for Edge, Kill Screen, and Paste. He has also worked as a sound designer and created preset patches and arpeggiator patterns for synthesizers from Alesis and M-Audio.