{"id":18,"date":"2018-09-08T18:12:18","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T18:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/simtopia\/?page_id=18"},"modified":"2018-09-28T00:32:24","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T00:32:24","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/projects-old.etc.cmu.edu\/simtopia\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"

Meet the Simtopia Team!<\/p>\n

\"\"Iris Hwang<\/strong> – Technical Artist \u00a0\/ Programmer | Link to Portfolio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Iris grew up in both Taiwan and the U.S. Influenced by her unique cultural background, Iris is passionate about storytelling through various mediums. She believes a good story can overcome the cultural and language barriers and touch people’s heart.<\/p>\n

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Sahar Kausar<\/strong> – Producer \/ Technical Artist | Link to Portfolio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Sahar has a B.S. degree in Computer Science Engineering and Art. She wants to pursue a career as a technical artist and in this CMU ETC project, she is providing her rigging, VFX, design, and 2D\/3D art skills. She is also the producer and manages the team’s agile development through scrum and serves as a liaison between Simtopia and Maxis Studios.<\/p>\n

\"\"Mengqi Wu<\/strong> – Experience Designer \/ Programmer | Link to Portfolio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Mengqi has a B.S in Computer Science and also minor in Music. She in excited in experience design and VR\/AR game development. Her focus is on programming and prototyping. In this project, she wants to make some special experience while using both design and programming knowledge.<\/p>\n

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Tianyi Zhao<\/strong> – Lead<\/em>\u00a0Programmer | Link to Portfolio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Tianyi Zhao is a professional gameplay programmer, who experts in multiple programming languages including C#, C++ and JavaScript. He is also enthusiastic in level design and music composing.<\/p>\n

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Xuefan Zhou<\/strong> – Designer \/ Programmer | Link to Portfolio<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Xuefan has a background in computer science and she is interested in interactive experience design and development in VR\/AR\/game\/themed entertainment. In this project, she is focusing on game design and programming and trying to gain some experience in graphics programming\/VFX as well.<\/p>\n

Special thanks to our faculty advisors at Carnegie Mellon University’s Entertainment Technology Center: Carl Rosendahl<\/a> and Ricardo Washington<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Additional special thanks also goes out to the team at Maxis Studios<\/a> for collaborating with us on this project as well!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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