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WAXWING (2024)
VIDEO-GAME, CUSTOM ARCADE CABINET & HARDWARE
Work with a partner using lightguns to guide Icarian avatars to their final non-destinations.
by COMMON OPERA
director game designer level designer music composer SFX UI/UX
Awards2024: Human Human Machine Award, A MAZE
2022: Grant Recipient, Brooklyn Arts Council
Exhibitions
2024: Museum of the Moving Image
2024: gamescom
2024: A MAZE Sheffield
2024: A MAZE
2024: MAGFest
2023: Day of the Devs
2023: Wonderville
OUT FOR DELIVERY (2020)INTERACTIVE DOCUMENTARY
Shadow a food courier in Beijing the day before Wuhan shuts down due to COVID-19.
by YUXIN GAO, JOHN BRUNEAU, GUS BOEHLING, & LILLYAN LING
translator copyeditor music composer SFX
Awards
2021: Impact Award, IndieCade
2021: Immersive Award, BAFTA Student Award
Exhibitions
2025: Visual Studies Workshop
2024: SuperFEST
2022: Museum of Pop Culture
2022: NowPlayThis
2021: IndieCade
2021: Game Devs of Color
COKE BUGS (2024)VIDEO-GAME
Road trip fueled by a cyclical haze beset by desperate procurement of more and more crystals.
by COMMON OPERA
music composer SFX UI/UX
Exhibitions
2024: Tokyo Game Show
2024: Boshi’s Place
2024: MAGFest
2023: Playtopia
2023: SXSW Sydney
2023: Busan Indie Connect
2022: Wonderville
KNOW-IT-ALL (2024)VR VIDEO-GAME
The ultimate trivia game show — play against friends or robots, or cheer on from the audience.
developed by COMMON OPERA for META HORIZON WORLDS
director project manager game designer audio designer
A TRAGIC ACCIDENTAL STILL LIFE (2023)VIDEO-GAME
A three act arcade adventure in which a kleptomaniac ambulance driver daydreams through theft.
by COMMON OPERA
music composer sfx ui/uxAwards2022: Honorable Mention, A MAZE Berlin, Germany
Exhibitions2023: MAGFest
2022: Busan Indie Connect
2022: A MAZE Berlin
2022: NYCxDesign
2022: MAGFest
MOTOR AWAY TRIP (2023)VIDEO-GAME
Girls wreak mini-game havoc on their Ohio-Florida road trip in this multiplayer Mario Party knockoff.
by BLAKE ANDREWS for NYU GAME CENTER’s NO QUARTER
music composer
Exhibitions2025: MAGFest
2023: NYU Game Center’s No Quarter
CELL TO SINGULARITY (ONGOING)MOBILE GAME
Tap into the extraordinary tale of evolution in this cosmic idle clicker game.
by COMPUTER LUNCH
producer [pollination event] producer [deep sea event] music composer [beyond ep. 18] music composer [beyond ep. 19]
KINFOLK (2023)MOBILE APP
Place monuments vital to Black and Brown history in your AR space and learn about them.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for KINFOLK TECH
producer QAAwards
2021: Best XR for Change Nominee, Games for Change
2021: Best Creative Non-Fiction, Tribeca Film Festival
Exhibitions
2023: MOMA
2021: Games for Change
2021: Tribeca Film Festival
1000 DEATHSVIDEO-GAME
Make decisions that you’ll take with you to the grave in this colorful, alien-like world.
by PARIAH INTERACTIVE
lead producer [2018-22]
Exhibitions
2022: MAGFest
2021: Wonderville
2021: Game Devs of Color
2021: PlayNYC
2020: Game Devs of Color
2020: IndieCade
MADE IN TRANS-PAKISTAN (2022)AR INSTALLATION
AR art on ceramic works explores nostalgia, gentrification, and urbanization South Asia.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for UMBER MAJHEED
producer QA
Exhibitions
2022: Pioneer Works
BELLS PURSUING ONE ANOTHER (2022)VIDEO-GAME
Players work together as Cuvier’s beaked whales in the Great Bahama Canyon to capture squids.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for RINDON JOHNSON
producer QA
Exhibitions
2022: François Ghebaly, BK, NY
2022: Albertinum, Dresden, Germany
ROCKET SYNC (2022)VIDEO-GAME, CUSTOM ARCADE CABINET
Work with a partner using custom controllers to destroy asteroids in this space rhythm game.
developed by COMMON OPERA for STRANGE OUTFIT
game designer music composer SFX UI/UX
HONEY FUNGUS (2022)VR EXPERIENCE
A queer, sentient, and omnipresent mycelial entity leads the audience into erotic intensity.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for SUE HUANG and JONAH KING
producer QAExhibitions
2022: Guilty By Association Gallery, BK, NY
AWOKE & AWAKENED: ALAAP (2022)SIMULATION
A speculation into a techno-utopian myth about a mythical artificial emotional intelligence.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for SURABHI SARAF
producer QAExhibitions
2022: SFMOMA
2022: HarvestWorks, NY, NY
2022: Honor Fraser Gallery, NY, NY
STORM BROKER (2021)VIDEO-GAME
Buy and sell properties to turn a profit amidst the barrage of devastating hurricanes. Powered by real weather data provided by dClimate.
developed by COMMON OPERA for DCLIMATE
game designer music composer SFX
THIS END THE SUN (2021)DIGITAL SIMULATION
An ongoing predictive simulation of the overhead sky over days and nights.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for RINDON JOHNSON
producer QAExhibitions
2021: New Museum
LAST YEAR’S ATLANTIC (2021)DIGITAL SIMULATION
A live rendering of real weather data collected on the vast North Atlantic “cold blob.”
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for RINDON JOHNSON
producer QA
Exhibitions
2021: SculptureCenter
ALL HER BODIES (2020)VR EXPERIENCE
Five recollections of vulnerability and violence endured by women.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for ELIZABETH LEISTER
producer QAExhibitions
2021: Games for Change
2020: Currents New Media
VARIATIONS ON CODA TO YELLOW SKY (2020)VIDEO-GAME
Members of a monastery contemplate death on the night before a final battle.
by COMMON OPERA
producer writerExhibitions2023: The Trope Tank, MIT
2022: ICIDS, Santa Cruz, CA
2022: Wonderville
2021: Busan Indie Connect
2020 THE RIDE (2020)VR EXPERIENCE
A fully illustrated zine of ten essays that explore death and grief in games.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for JEN DOT LU
producer qa
Awards
2021: Best VR Video Nominee, Webby Awards
SHE WHO SEES THE UNKNOWN: KABOUS (2020)VR EXPERIENCE
Stories of four generations of Iranian women are told in a bathhouse by the jinn of sleep paralysis.
developed by PARIAH INTERACTIVE for MOREHSHIN ALLAHYARI
producer qaExhibtions
2020: The Shed
D!SC: DUEL STRIKE CARDS (2019)CARD & PHYSICAL GAME
A physical card duel dealt in literal flicking of cards worn on arm holders. Attack, defend, trap.
by JRPG COMBAT SYSTEMS
producer game designerExhibtions
2019: Come Out and Play
HACK YOUR FACE (2019)VIDEO-GAME COLLECTION
An open soure mixtape of short games with the theme of “Hack Your Face.”
by JRPG COMBAT SYSTEMS
producer game designer
EPILOGUE SIMULATOR (2019)VIDEO-GAME
Wander desolate lands to collect pieces of a broken UI system and regain memories.
by JRPG COMBAT SYSTEMS
producer music composerExhibitions2019: EGX London
AERISDIES (2019)VIDEO-GAME COLLECTION
An open source mixtape of short games centered around the character Aeris from Final Fantasy VII.
by JRPG COMBAT SYSTEMS
producer game designer music composer
BEAT TAPE (2019)VIDEO-GAME COLLECTION
An open source mixtape of stand-alone, contextless game systems.
by JRPG COMBAT SYSTEMS
producer game designer
Exhibtions2019: Game On!
ENDGAME SEQUENCES (2021)KICKSTARTED ZINE
A fully illustrated zine of ten essays that explore death and grief in games.
by ELIZABETH BALLOU
assistant editor copyeditor
ELECTROCONCIERGE (2020)PHYSICAL GAME
Call and order pancake-themed games to wherever you are in the MAGFest hotel. Win pancakes.
by BABYCASTLES
game designerExhibtions
2020: MAGFest
ELECTROCONCIERGE (2019)PHYSICAL GAME
Call Electroconcierge today to request amenities including ASMR and Metal Gear Solid rants.
by BABYCASTLES
game designer audio designerExhibitions2019: MAGFest
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