Rachel Cordone is a designer and self-taught UnrealScript programmer, who has been working with the Unreal Engine since 1999. She has worked for various game and simulation companies since 2003, including Pipeworks Software and Parsons Brinkerhoff, and has started up her own game company, Stubborn Horse Studios, to make independent games with the Unreal Development Kit. Stubborn Horse's first project, Prometheus, won several awards in Epic Games' Make Something Unreal Contest.