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