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Ryan Eckert <\/strong>is a current second year at the Entertainment Technology Center. As a producer and designer, Ryan has been working on the team 7 Seasons Studio exploring the process of game preproduction and pitching.
Outside of the ETC, Ryan helps with audio-visual support for events on campus, cosplays, and wears many hats (or one hat for long stretches of time).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lochlan Belford <\/strong>is a game developer and programmer with an interdisciplinary background in music, theatrical performance, and computer science. He was drawn to the ETC and game development in general as the perfect way to combine his interests and skills. So far at the ETC he has designed games for the Oculus Quest 2 and Microsoft Hololens 2, as well as one game controlled by an 88-key MIDI piano! As a consequence of playing “Spyro: Year of the Dragon” when he was five years old, his favorite color is, always has been, and always will be purple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zongze(Damian) Xie<\/strong> is a graduate student at Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center. He has 3 years of work experience in the video game industry as a Game Designer, including narrative design, system design, level design.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Damian’s past professional experience includes Game designer\u00a0at YOOZOO Games and NetEase Games\u00a0focusing on Narrative design, Screenwriting, Worldview setting, Level design and System design. With an Art Major background, he has a great understanding of the Artwork pipeline and environmental design. Besides, he has basic programming skills in Python and game engines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Justin Yook <\/strong>is a game designer and artist with an interdisciplinary background in statistics, music, and dance. He decided to attend the ETC because he is interested in joining the video game industry with a dream of becoming the creative director of his own studio in the future. Justin spends his free time playing and designing video games, and choreographing dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Yifan Shan <\/strong>is a visual designer striving to help people promote constructive actions and build positive living attitudes through intuitive and persuasive art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rui “Harry” Zhang<\/strong> is an 2D\/3D artist who is interested in creating fictional universe and si-fi fantasy. Harry is particularly bound up in character concept design and is willing to dig into additional studies and researches to enrich his vision related to the concept art development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jingyi (Joy) Liu<\/strong> is a digital artist, composer, game developer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chris Klug<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Trained as a theatrical lighting designer, Chris Klug began his career in the arts working on Broadway, in regional theater, and toured with various 70’s rock n’ roll bands. Then, at the invitation of a fellow photographer, Chris transitioned into a career as a Game Designer. Starting with Simulations Publications, Inc., in 1981, he was first Assistant Designer on Universe (a sci-fi role playing game), then was Lead Designer for the 2nd edition of DragonQuest (a fantasy RPG), Horror Hotel (something’s lurking in the shadows of an old Victorian mansion) and Damocles Mission (a sci-fi strategy game about exploring an alien artifact). While at SPI he edited the role playing section of Ares magazine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When TSR bought SPI in 1982, Chris and the rest of the SPI staff moved on to start-up Victory Games. While at Victory, Chris managed the role playing games product line, and designed the James Bond 007 role playing game (a winner of a H.G. Wells RPG Game of the Year Award as well as the winner of TSR’s RPGA award). This game has been hailed as one of the first RPGs to emphasize story and narrative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also designed a number of adventures based on the movies (Live and Let Die won RPG Adventure of the Year), followed up by a solitaire board game — Open Fire — based on Victory’s Ambush system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After a time as a Macintosh consultant to New York City’s magazine publishing industry, Chris moved on to freelance video game design and worked for SegaSoft, TSR, Hasbro Interactive, 3W, THQ, Simon and Schuster Interactive, Target Games, h2o Interactive, and Gizmo Games In that industry Chris has more than a dozen titles to his credit, including “RPG Story of the Year” award for Aidyn Chronicles: First Mage. Some of his computer game credits include Star Trek DS9: Dominion Wars, Europa Universalis, Duke Nukem: Time to Kill, and Diamond Dreams Baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris then joined EA’s Westwood Studios full-time as a content and story specialist, leading the narrative team for EA’s first MMO, Earth & Beyond, for which Chris later became Creative Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris then became Creative Director at Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment in Mesa, Arizona, designing Stargate Worlds, an MMO based on the Stargate television franchise. Chris also worked closely with Brad Wright and the Stargate writing staff on efforts to sync up the evolving story in both the TV series as well as the MMO.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While teaching at the ETC, Chris secured an $8 million investment in an innovative social game \/ mobile game platform, Dream Wedding Planner, and launched the product in the spring of 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to teaching story, game design and creating writing at CMU, Chris consults with game publishers around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris is a playwright and member of the Writer’s Guild of America West.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ricardo Washington<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

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Ricardo serves as an adjunct faculty member at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. He specializes in giving the students instruction and guidance in art related areas of their program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricardo was a faculty member at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh in the Game Art and Design department. He taught classes in 3D art, specializing in modeling and texture creation. He also taught game design, animation, and production classes. Ricardo helped to improve the academic culture with consistent and robust service on various committees and boards, organizing multiple events, updating classes and curricula, and connecting with the community in Pittsburgh. Before AIP he worked for small game company with a great team. He also did freelance game art, focusing on creating content for games for training. He worked with Simcoach games during this time to create content for interactive game based safety training material.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before his life as a digital artist, Ricardo worked as a research specialist in the Neurobiology department at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of Medicine. As a lab assistant he spent many hours conducting in the trenches bench top science and microscope work. It was a productive time resulting in four publications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ricardo uses his skills and knowledge to teach students outside of the traditional academic environment. He developed and implemented the video game design programs for a local nonprofit Homewood Children’s Village and the Carnegie Library in East Liberty. He has also served as a volunteer mentor with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History EnergyNet and Game Jam programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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