Ivan Barroso was born in 1980 in Lisbon, Portugal. He is currently the Game Designer and Project Manager for Alentejo: The Tinto & The Ugly© and Alentejo: Tinto's Law©. He is also working on Loading Studios' next project, #31 Luzyahdas: The Botafogo Odyssey.
He has collaborated on several projects, including Njinga: The Diplomat Warrior (Team Njinga), Those Who Remain and Beneath (Camel 101), Out of Line (Nerd Monkeys), Fruit Birds, Where's My Cheese, Pixel Jumper, and Bird Bash (Bob Games), as well as Buddy Trivia (XS Gamerz).
He holds a Ph.D. in Game Studies and is a cultural researcher specialising in video games. He teaches undergraduate and master's degree courses in game development at Universidade Lusófona and ETIC. He is the author of three books, including History of Video Games (2012), Service Games (2014), and Interactive Revolution (2018). He has also written game-related columns for PushStart magazine and the newspaper Público. In addition, he served as the Portuguese representative for PlayStation® First and is certified in Ubisoft's Rational Game Design.
As a developer his most common role is Special Thanks. He has participated in a total of nine portuguese video games, among the most recent Alentejo: The Tinto & The Ugly (Loading Studios, 2025), where he took part as Game Designer, Beneath (Camel 101, 2025), where he took part as Level Design, and Alentejo: Tinto's Law (Loading Studios, 2024), where he took part as . Besides, he took part in seven video games developeds outside Spain, Fruit Birds (Cab Games, 2013), where he was Game Designer, y Pixel Jumper (Cab Games, 2012), where he was 2D Game Artist.
As a writer he wrote three books about video games, being the most recent ones Revolução Digital (, 2018), or História dos Videojogos (, 2010).
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| 2013 | Fruit Birds | Cab Games | Game Designer |
| 2012 | Pixel Jumper | Cab Games | 2D Game Artist / Marketing Artist |
| 2012 | Night Wolf and the Dark Florest | Cab Games | 2D Game Artist |
| 2011 | Where's My Cheese | Cab Games | Game Design |
| 2011 | Guess The Song | Happy Hippo | 2D Game Artist |
| 2011 | Pixel Warriors | Pixel Warriors | 2D Game Artist |
| 2011 | KTALU: PLANET OF TERROR | WEST OF PLUTO | 2D Game Artist |
