Buildbox lets you design games without the need to learn code.
Buildbox lets you design games without the need to learn code.
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Buildbox owner AppOnboard hires Riot Games leader Mike Seavers as CEO

AppOnboard has named former Riot Games chief technology officer Mike Seavers as its new CEO. Founder and previous CEO Jonathan Zweig will continue as president at the company, which makes a do-it-yourself game platform and playable ads.

The addition of Seavers marks AppOnboard‘s new mission, which changed when the company acquired Buildbox, a suite of tools that neophytes can use to create games without knowing how to code. Under AppOnboard, in December Buildbox launched a free version that brings people into the world of “no code” game development and then upsells them to services such as marketing and playable ads, Zweig said in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.