Richard James Cook is a filmmaker and game developer in Austin, Texas. In independent game development, he is the creator of several smaller titles like "Pro Janitor Police" and the forthcoming fighting game "Super Combat Fighter", and has also worked on games like "Battlesloths" in an IC role.

Richard is most notable for his two gaming-centric documentary films, "Pixels and Polygons" and "Pixel Poetry", the latter of which was produced and distributed by indie label Devolver Digital.

In addition to his projects, Richard was also one of only 20 selected to participate and graduate from the Denius-Sams Gaming Academy at the University of Texas at Austin. The program, directed under industry veteran and luminary Warren Spector, focused on leadership principles and team/project management in the games industry.

He is currently working on his next documentary "Surviving Indie", expected to release in Summer 2016.