Presence is comprised of four Master’s students at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center. They found each other because of their love of story-based media, and decided to work together to design a branching narrative game for virtual reality.

CORE TEAM



Brad Plaxen
Narrative Designer

Yiru “Zoe” Qi
Lead Programmer

Melissa Robinson Schoeller
Producer
2D Artist

Shuang “Sharon” You
Art Director
3D Artist

ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTORS

CAST

Tasheim Ramsey Pack as Giuli

Zachary Herman as Luca

Dan Walpow as Nicky

Scott Cuva as Police Mook

Axel Arth as Police Captain

 

MOTION CAPTURE & DATA CLEANUP

Justin Macey

 

SOUND

Julian Korzeniowsky
Sound Engineer

Stephen Murphy
Composer, Pianist

Chris Smith
Standing Bass

Jesse Morvan
Trumpet

George Pachucy
Drums

Vlahakis Recording Studio
College of Fine Arts
Carnegie Mellon University

Riccardo Schulz
Recording Direction

Jacob Fulkerson
Recording Engineer

Runbo Guo
Recording Engineer

Mark Tamvakis
Recording Engineer

Valerie Senavsky
Recording Engineer

Michael Bridges
Editing and Mixing

SPECIAL THANKS
(mentors, advisers, and subject experts)

Kevin Lee Allen
Brenda Bakker Harger
Dave Culyba
John Dessler
Jessica Hammer
Rony Kahana
Chris Klug
Oh! Lab at Carnegie Mellon University
Shawn Patton
Jesse Schell
Robert Thomson
Allan & Terry Thygesen
Michael Tsai
Ricardo Washington