[1] Fortugno is perhaps best known for designing Diner Dash, a top-selling casual game developed by Gamelab, and the award-winning Ayiti: The Cost of Life.
[6] In the summer of 2022, Fortugno was hired through a grant provided by the Mayor's Office of Media and Entertainment to lead a new program in Digital Game Design at the City College of New York.
The Gaming Pathways initiative was granted $2 million sponsoring Urban Arts, an organization dedicated to teaching low-income students STEM and STEAM skills; City College of New York, for the establishment of Bachelors of Science in Digital Game Development; and the Harlem Gallery of Science, which supports mentorships for middle and high school students in STEM skills.
[24] Co-founded in 2007 by Fortugno and Margaret Wallace, Rebel Monkey is a New York City-based casual game development studio.
Emphasizing collaborative team play and aimed at the teenaged demographic, CampFu officially launched on March 17, 2009, after a beta stage that began in February of the same year.
CampFu was free to play, but users could access premium content by purchasing in-world currency called "FuCash" and/or a VIP membership subscription.
In September 2009, Fortugno and Wallace started a new company focused on game design and development called Playmatics, LLC.
[28] The BUG consisted of a race between three teams, each of which attempted to move a 25-foot high inflatable game piece past a series of checkpoints set through the Twin Cities.
[29][30] Later that year, Fortugno was one of five founders (including Greg Trefry, Catherine Herdlick, Mattia Romeo, and Seung-Taek "Peter" Lee) of Come Out & Play (CO&P), the world's first street-game festival.
While attending SUNY Purchase in the mid-1990s, Fortugno began his Seasons of Darkness LARP, which ran for several years and was reported on in Rules of Play by Katie Salen and Eric Zimmerman and Daniel Mackay's The Fantasy Role-Playing Game.