Melissa Bianco was born and raised in Vancouver, B.C. Canada. She graduated from Argyle Secondary School in 1987 and received her Arts and Sciences Diploma in Media Resources from Capilano University in 1991. She has also attended Ohlone College (American Sign Language) and Liberty University (Religious Studies).
Melissa is best known for her work as a game developer on the Massive Multiplayer online roleplaying games called City of Heroes and City of Villains, by Cryptic Studios and, later, Paragon Studios where she worked as Lead Development Producer until its sunset in November 2012. She was known on the CoH boards as War Witch. She worked at Crystal Dynamics as a Producer on Marvel Avengers from 2016 to 2021. She joined TruPlay Games, a Christian game developer, in 2021, making Christian mobile games for children and adults until 2024. Melissa currently works as a Senior Producer at Marauder Tech on Price of Glory.
Melissa started McMelmo as a way to unleash her creative imagination in a silly and fun style using her brain, AI technology, and the wonderful world of Print-on-Demand. You can find her Etsy store here: https://mcmelmo.etsy.com
She lives in Idaho with her husband and Russian Blue Cat, Remington “Remi” Steele.
She loves reading, writing, video games, being creative, making people laugh, and reading about cooking (apparently she doesn’t like the actual cooking part). She’s also a fan of ice cream and chocolate, but only the good stuff. Not that grocery store junk.
Melissa is also the author of the chick-lit novels Everyday Heroes and Real Life.
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