Justin Ficarrotta (or just "Fic") is a game designer and programmer for Freeverse in Brooklyn, NY, developer of games for the Mac, PC, Xbox 360, and iPhone. He is currently the lead designer / programmer for a currently unannounced iPhone game. His credits with Freeverse include Top Gun and Days of Thunder for the iPhone, and Marathon: Durandal for Xbox Live Arcade. Fic graduated from UCLA in 2003 with a degree in Computer Science, and got his start in the industry writing absurdly violent, yet award-winning, indie games. "Kill Dr. Cote" won "Best Gameplay" in the uDevGames 2004 contest, and won "Best Overall Game" in uDevGames 2008 with "Laserface Jones vs. Doomsday Odious".