Erin Robinson Swink is a Canadian indie game designer and developer.

In 2015, University of California, Santa Cruz appointed her creative director of the Baskin School of Engineering's master's programme in games and playable media.

When she first started designing video games, she kept it a secret from her friends because she thought it was "super geeky.

"[8] She developed the concept, mechanics, and artwork, and hired computer programmers to code the game logic.

[11] Robinson has taught indie gaming classes at Columbia College Chicago.

She talked about her findings that video games are increasingly being used in medical and rehabilitative therapy and that playing First-Person Shooters improves visual and auditory perception.

[3][8] In 2015, she was named the creative director of the master's degree programme in games and playable media at the Silicon Valley Center of the University of California, Santa Cruz.