David "Wotan" Wessman is a video game developer, who worked as a tester at LucasArts before joining Totally Games and becoming one of the mission builders on the video games Star Wars: X-Wing and Star Wars: TIE Fighter. He later worked as the gameplay and story lead on Star Wars: X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter and Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance. After leaving Totally Games, Wessman was a lead or senior designer on a variety of games before entering academia in 2008. As a professor in game design he has taught at the graduate and undergraduate level at a variety of schools around the world. He is currently a lecturer at NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences in The Netherlands.