James Beech



James Beech is a Canadian-American game designer. Beech joined Retro Studios as an environment designer in January 2020. His hiring at Retro was reported on February 16, 2020, along with that of Mark Capers. It is likely that both designers are working on Metroid Prime 4, as Retro is not confirmed to be working on any other projects as of February 17, 2020. According to his LinkedIn profile, Beech is "Working on cool stuff!" at Retro.

His previous experience includes work at Sony Online Entertainment (DC Universe Online), Silicon Knights (Eternal Darkness 2; cancelled), Crytek (Crysis 3), Gunfire Games (Remnant: From the Ashes) and Neon Serpent LLC (Ultraworld and an unannounced indie project that is on hiatus). He has also written blog posts for Gamasutra and given speeches at Game Developer Conference and the University of San Francisco. He says his "one true goal" as a Canadian is to wrestle a bear.