Peggy Brown

Peggy Brown (born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is a game designer, game consultant, creative director, and executive who designed Buzzword and the jewelry and crown for the game Pretty Pretty Princess when she was an employee for Hasbro's Western Publishing division and Patch Products. She later became a self-employed game creator and began taking freelance assignments to work on parts of games. She also co-founded and ran a design business called Alley Oop for eight years. She has provided creative consulting services to clients such as Hasbro, Mattel, Fisher Price, Tyco, and Playmates.

"Companies want to make more of what they have instead of making new things." -- Peggy Brown

• In November 2009, she won a Tagie award for excellence in game design from the Toy and Game Inventors Expo for her work over the past 20 years.