Aditya Anupam

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About Aditya Anupam

Game and game tool developer with 5+ years experience in digital game development and 3 published accolade-winning educational games as lead designer. Proficient in Unity (C#) and Unreal (Blueprints). See more for details, or visit I have experience in the following fields: Design- Experience in Systems Design, Level Design, Experience Design, Narrative Design - I have 3 published accolade-winning educational games as lead designer - Particle in a Box (Unity): Single-player platformer for teaching introductory quantum physics. Winner, Student’s Choice Award in the Serious Games Showcase & Challenge 2015- Psi & Delta (Unity): A local co-op platformer with over 15 levels for teaching quantum physics. Showcased at Smithsonian Creativity Festival, National Museum of American History, DC. 2019- Essential Workers (P5.js): Online multiplayer point & click survival game where players must cooperate to succeed as essential workers in a pandemic. Won special award for “most potential” at INDCOR Complexity jam (funded by the European Union). Programming- Unity, Unreal Engine 5 (Blueprints), P5.js, D3.js, HTML/CSS, Processing (Java), Arduinos - Programmed two Unity games from scratch to publication - Writing modular/scalable code to enable quick changes to the game based on play testing/iterations - Currently employing ScriptableObjects in Unity and programming a custom Unity editor to support development of a dialogue-system for a solo game project Research- Developing surveys/questionnaires, conducting pre-post studies, interviews, think-aloud protocols, focus groups, rapid prototyping, quantitative/qualitative data Analysis- Published over 7 research papers on games and game design Writing- Experience developing interactive narratives using the five-part acts/storybeats - Developed intertwined character narratives that lead to chain reactions in plot development - Proficient in game design documentation, academic/technical writing, and narrative scripts/dialogues Teaching- Designed and taught 2 undergraduate courses on game design at Georgia Tech- Awarded Graduate Instructor of the Year 2020 (Campus-wide) by Georgia Tech - Awarded Outstanding Graduate Instructor 2020 and Outstanding Graduate Teaching Assistant by my department