Dustin Browder

Dustin Browder is an employee of Blizzard Entertainment and is the lead designer of StarCraft II.

Biography
He has worked in the video game industry since 1995 at a variety of companies, including Activision, Electronic Arts, and Simon & Schuster Interactive. He has experience in developing real-time strategy games, most notably as lead designer for Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 and Command & Conquer: Generals, and as game design director for The Lord of the Rings: The Battle for Middle-Earth series.

Blizzard Entertainment hired Dustin Browder on March 14th, 2005 to the position of senior designer.

He says he brought no knowledge from his previous job at EA, since he wasn't working on games designed for esports there.

Battle Reporting
On the battle.net forum, Browder uses the handle "Cavez". When announcing games, he's been known as "T-Bone". He has an extremely enthusiastic reporting style and uses the term "terrible terrible damage" so much it has even been proposed as a cheat code; Browder acknowledged the mockery. It's even been used as a nickname.

In terms of personal gameplay, Browder is within the platinum league.

Dustin Browder once befriended progamer Pyrock on steam, thinking he was community manager Karune. Pyrock was removed after several gameplay suggestions.

Soundboard
Dustin Browder has a soundboard. Visitors to the site can push buttons labeled with phrases to hear Browder say them.