Taylor Yust

Taylor Yust (born Sept. 27, 1989) is a level II gameplay engineer at Retro Studios since June 2017. On his LinkedIn profile as of December 16, 2019, he states that he is currently working on Metroid Prime 4, and that he "works with designers and artists to implement gameplay mechanics and AI".

Yust is one of three Retro Studios employees confirmed as of December 2019 to be working on Metroid Prime 4, the others being Kyle Hefley and Nicholas Shaw. Before being hired at Retro, he had previously applied for AI and UI programming jobs there in January 2014. He previously reviewed Super Metroid for his university's game design course, exploring the essential experience of the work.

Metroid Prime 4 will be Yust's first major released game. He was previously a research assistant at the University of Arkansas and lead software engineer at Tesseract, a video game development studio within the university. He was a Unity certified developer until his certification expired in November 2018.