Who are we?

We are graduate students at the Entertainment Technology Center, a department of Carnegie Mellon University. We each come from different backgrounds, but together hope to create a game so intriguing that it's name is whispered amongst people around the world. Ambitious? Yes. Possible? Well, we hope so.

Let's meet the team:

Nicole Epps

Programming. Writing. Design.

Posessing a talent for programming and a keen eye for game design this quiet, but tenacious girl will romance you with her passionate poetry and ensnare your mind with tales of love whilest she enjoys cartoons and some coffee on the side. If not, she wants to be a superhero.

Nicole's Site

Brad Michael

Art. Writing. Design.

A Libra who likes long walks on the beach, Brad Michael is a game designer who has a passion for story and aesthetics. Brad hopes that his background in Humanities, Fine Art, and Video Production along side his love for abstract expressionism will bring a unique edge to all his projects. In this project, Brad would like to hone his game design skills as well as express himself as a writer and an artist. In the future, Brad hopes to get paid for his 1337 game design skillz... if not, he wants to be a stay at home Dad.

Brad's Site

Tracy Kobeda-Brown

Producing. Writing. Design.

Tracy used to work tracking down cyber criminals and keeping hackers from stealing blue jeans. Having upset the underground black market for stolen credit cards, she decided a new challenge would be pursuing her graduate degree in entertainment technology so that she could justify the long hours that she was investing in competitive video gaming. She is currently producing and designing content for the Cross Media project, a project that is exploring game play across different mediums. She hasn't finalized her goal upon graduation but hopes to be a producer of video games or to start her own company with some classmates. If not, then she will let her hair grow in white so she can stunt double for Rogue in the X-Men.

Tracy's Site

Hee Jun Kim

Writing. Design.

Jun joins us from Korea where he is 28 Korean years old, but only 26 American years old (it is advanced mathematics…ask him for the exclusive.) He's a story-oriented person; he likes to make stories, and hopes to make a living with it in the future. (Be nice to him – or you might just end up in one of his stories.) On this project, Jun is excited about making content in relation to personal experience by using various media. He believes that this experience is a huge challenge and will make great intellectual property. If not, he will be available to write student blurbs for the CMU portal at a fixed fee.

Hee Jun's Site

Karin Ray

Art. Design.

Karin Ray, or "The Sassy Kangaroo" as she is known by friends, is both a lover and a fighter, a 2D artist and a multi-media artist. She hopes to design environments that make palms around the world sweaty from their sheer awesomeness. She loves going to concerts, thinks unicorns are "da bomb" and dreams of murder.

Karin's Site

Allison Theus

Art. Design.

By day, she's a mild-mannered art student. By night, Allison Theus unleashes her inner beast. Allison brings her otherworldly painting and drawing skills to the project table, creating monstrous concept art to delight and frighten.

Allison's Site