Shiyong(Sion) Chen
Game Designer, Programmer
Shiyong Chen is an accomplished developer with a passion for creating immersive interactive experiences. With several years of experience in the game industry, he has demonstrated expertise in designing and implementing gameplay mechanisms, game systems, and user experience for multiple mobile games.
Tingru(Tina) Lian
Producer, Programmer
Tingru Lian is a producer and programmer with a passion for being a product manager/ producer for games and themed entertainment.
Tingru earned her bachelor degree from Boston University, dual degreed in Computer Engineering and Psychology.
Haoze(Jacky) Sun
Programmer
After his graduation with a CS major from Vanderbilt University, Haoze (Jacky) Sun came to ETC in search of further learning in game development and the experience to work with brilliant peers who are also passionate about games. He actively practices his skills and interests in game design, game programming and computer graphics, preparing himself for a related job in the game industry.
Ziqi(Snow) Ye
Artists
Ziqi Ye is a technical artist and 3D generalist. His dedication to the work and motivation to grow has led him to many interesting projects and experiences.
Jingyu(Jerry) Xie
Game Designer, Sound Designer, Programmer
Jingyu Xie is a game designer and developer with multidisciplinary backgrounds varying from game designing, programming, and sound production. With the passion of creating virtual worlds that everyone can enjoy, he selected the game development field during undergraduate period, and he is still on his way to the target.
Instructors
Mike Christel
Mike is interested in the development and evaluation of transformational games, especially in the areas of education and health care. Mike joined the ETC Faculty in 2008, moving from Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Department where he was working at the intersection of speech recognition, image processing, and multimedia interface development and evaluation. As a member of the Informedia Digital Video Library research team, he received the Allen Newell Award for Research Excellence. Before that, from 1987 to 1997 he worked at the Software Engineering Institute at CMU. Mike received his Ph.D. from Georgia Tech in 1991 with a thesis examining dynamically generated digital video interfaces. Entertainment builds from experiences, and Mike loves to travel with his family, having enjoyed each of the 50 states in the U.S. on various journeys.
Jonathan Walton
Jonathan is an award-winning indie game designer, a former China policy analyst, and a teacher and scholar focused on critical analysis of science, technology, and media. A native of North Carolina and Virginia, Jonathan studied Chinese language at the School Year Abroad (SYA) and Associated Colleges in China (ACC) programs in Beijing, as an East Asian Studies major at Oberlin College, and as a Fulbright Fellow at Nanjing University.
As a PhD Candidate in Communication at UC San Diego, Jonathan’s interdisciplinary research exists at the intersection of game studies, media studies, and science and technology studies. His dissertation focuses on hands-on, play-based learning in science centers and museums, “edutainment” institutions where visitors engage with STEM topics and design thinking. By conducting ethnographic fieldwork at multiple science centers prior to the pandemic, Jonathan found that visitors conduct conceptual and physical “repair” work on interactive exhibits that are confusing or broken, playfully making sense out of their experiences even in the face of technological failure. While at UC San Diego, Jonathan also taught courses in game studies, transmedia design, and science & technology studies.
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