Lunarwood Studios Employees
Lunarwood Studios is an indie studio that produces, at the moment, indie games. Our current project is The Old Manchester Place, often abbreviated as TOMP. Information and relevant links to the project are below, alongside our company email.
Mio Faerie-Salisbury
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Mio Faerie-Salisbury is the CEO and Studio Head for Lunarwood Studios, and Creative Director for this project. They are currently starting their final year at the University of Arizona, working on a degree in Games and Behavior and a minor in Digital Arts and East Asian Studies. They have been cultivating their digital art and storytelling skills since the young age of fourteen, and have been working on TOMP since 2018 when they were 22 years old.
Matthew Bofenkamp
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Matthew Bofenkamp is the CTO of Lunarwood Studios, and also serves as executive producer, lead writer, and game designer of TOMP. Matthew works as a gameplay engineer at Jadu, and has been making games since 2016. His work has won or been nominated for awards including an IGF shortlist and Serious Play Award, and has been featured in exhibitions including alt.ctrl.GDC, CHI PLAY, HCII, and Serious Play. Matthew has also gained some fame as a youtube personality, mostly famous for his appearances on Cut and Jubilee and his broad knowledge of international music, languages, and cultures.
Alexis Thao (Nini)
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Alexis Thao is the lead artist for Lunarwood Studios' current project, The Old Manchester Place. They are a freelance/hobbyist artist who is working towards their Bachelors in Cinema/Digital Media. They also have a number of other projects, such as their online Webcomic, under the alias "Nini" or "OrbitalMoonRat".
Glen Satriawan (Ricken)
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Glen Satriawan is a hobbyist artist and writer working with Lunarwood Studios as a character artist and character writer. They currently work as bobaista while obtaining their second bachelor's in Information Systems & Technology with a concentration in artificial intelligence.
Mia Zhang
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Mia is a UI/UX Designer who studied at Carnegie Mellon University. She is currently working for Lunarwood Studios as the lead UI/UX Designer. Mia is always curious to uncover opportunities, has a "weird" interest in anything zombie related, and is ready to start her second snowboarding season.
Brendan Valley
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Brendan Valley is a Pixel Artist and Sound Designer for Lunarwood Studios. He currently is doing contract work as a programmer, specializing in the Unity game engine and aspires to be a full time indie game developer in the future.
Michelle Cruz (Geminine)
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Geminine is a Character Designer and 2D artist from Colombia with a background in illustration, now looking to transition to the world of videogames. She currently works with Lunarwood Studio as a Character Designer and Character Artist
Stephan Manhalter
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Biologist by day, (pixel) artist and indie dev by night, Stephen does environment art and level design for Lunarwood Studios current project, The Old Manchester Place.
Amber Taschereau
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Amber is the on-call Graphic Designer for this project. Having studied animation at the Massachusetts College or Art and Design, Amber tries to pass off playing video games as continuing her studies. When she isn't doing that, she does actually draw and do freelance animation.
Julian Ochoa
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Julian Ochoa is a game designer on The Old Manchestor Place. He currently works as a Unity Developer at Fair Worlds. One of his games was accepted for showcasing at Tokyo Sandbox, but the date of the show keeps getting pushed back…
Jonathan Chung
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Jonathan Chung is a writer and game designer at Lunarwood Studios currently pursuing a bachelors in Cinema and Digital Media. His eclectic variety of interests inform his writing and allow him to write what he hopes to are fresh characters and story arcs. In the future, he would like to work at places that allow him to push video games forward as a medium capable of creating a world that can be better for us all.
Ryan Fogal
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Ryan Fogal is a composer and cellist from California. He has a Bachelors of Music in Film and Video Game Composition from Berklee College of Music, and has worked for James Newton Howard and Junkie XL. Some of Ryan’s roles have included serving as the music coordinator of the Vail Dance Festival, assisting in recording sessions at Abbey Road and Air Studios, being a teaching artist with the Youth Orchestra of Los Angeles, and orchestrating for projects performing at Carnegie Hall. The music of Legend of Zelda has been a huge inspiration to Ryan, and some of his favorite games include Paper Mario and the Thousand Year Door as well as Ori and the Blind Forest.
Rowan (Vesper)
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Rowan is a Social Media Manager at Lunarwood Studios. Rowan loves Sanrio and their favorite characters are Chococat and Cinnamoroll.
Nitesh Sridhar
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Nitesh is a Game Designer and Producer based out of Los Angeles, California. He has a BFA in Architecture from Carnegie Mellon University as well as a MFA in Interactive Media & Game Design from the University of Southern California. His games have a focus on language and communication, and his work has been featured at the USC Games Expo, while his art has been showcased at the opening of Frank Gehry’s The Grand in Los Angeles.
Sasha
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Sasha is a pixel artist from Ecuador currently working on The Old Manchestor Place.