World Design for 2D Action-Adventures

About Adrian SandovalChristopher W. Totten

Christopher Totten is an award-winning game designer and an Associate Professor and Program Coordinator of the Animation Game Design program at Kent State University. He is also the founder of the studios Pie For Breakfast LLC and Team Nemo Inc. which has created games for mobile PC tabletop Game Boy and the Nintendo Switch. He holds a Master's Degree in Architecture with a concentration in digital media from the Catholic University of America in Washington DC and is a lifetime member of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA).Chriss games and community work explore the intersections between games and the arts. He is a founder of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) Arcade and has created games based on art literature and works of animation including the award-winning games La Mancha and Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends. For this work he won the Faculty of Excellence Award for Innovation at IndieCade Horizons 2022. He is the author of An Architectural Approach to Level Design and Game Character Creation in Blender and Unity. He is also the editor of the collected volume Level Design: Processes and Experiences.Adrian Sandoval is a video game designer writer and professor of game production and history. His work spans nearly fifteen years with titles published across platforms such as the Nintendo DS PC and mobile. Currently he is the lead designer on the upcoming Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends game for PC and Nintendo Switch and the current chair for the Philadelphia chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA).