The Core Team
Kristian Tchetchko: Producer/Sound Designer
Kristian Tchetchko is a sound artist, recording engineer, composer. He enjoy creating sweeping orchestral soundtracks and intricate synthesized scores, and hopes to continue to hone his music compositional skills and solidify his musical voice. He really loves authentic fish tacos.
Wenyu Mao: Designer/Programmer
Wenyu Mao is an interdisciplinary designer has strong tech background to realize creative ideas about interactive designs and storytelling. She has great passion to explore how cutting edge technologies get involved in the daily life.
Chia Chi (Aurora) Chang:
2D/3D Artist
Chia Chi is a 2D/3D artist and interactive media designer from Taiwan. She has a background in interaction design with a focus on media design and visual communication. She has more than five years’ experience work with media design project and interdisciplinary collaboration. She is passionate about exploring visual art for storytelling. She want to create artworks which can bring happiness and inspiration to people and touch their heart.
Nidhi Ramanathan: Programmer/Artist
Nidhi is a programmer and digital artist who has a great passion for the technical and creative aspects of the entertainment industry. She is especially enthusiastic about animation, technical art and design. Her focus is to use her combined exposure of programming and art, to be a part of innovative, cutting edge experiences and stories.
With the help of…
Kate Busatto: Storywriter
Kate Busatto is a Pittsburgh native studying Drama at Carnegie Mellon. Her written work has been featured in the Future Is Female Festival, the Shot for Shot Carnegie International Short Film Competition, and the 2017 and 2019 Playground Festivals. She is the recipient of an Adamson Award for Screenwriting, winner of the 2018 Energy Week Monologue Competition, and a Scholastic Art & Writing American Voice Award for Poetry. This summer, she will teach Narrative Design at the National High School Game Academy. In her free time, she can be found wakesurfing, skiing, and traveling with her family.
Faculty Instructors/Clients
Chris Klug
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.
In addition to teaching story, game design and creating writing at CMU, Chris consults with game publishers around the world.
Ralph Vituccio
Ralph Vituccio is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon and an Independent filmmaker. At the ETC Ralph lead a number of award winning student interactive projects dealing with social issues.
As an independent artist, Vituccio has received numerous grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, the Mid-Atlantic Region Media Arts Fellowship Program and the National Endowment for the Arts.