Gaurav Mathur Email & Phone Number

El Cerrito, CA, US

Irvine, CA, US

I review Taralumen Games’ documentation and concept artwork, provide build feedback, and give strategic guidance. My focus is around art and design production, with a prioritization around adapting project goals into features reasonably scoped for the project’s budget and timeline.

Edinburgh, Scotland, GB

I'm an Advisor to Krish Shrikumar on his meditation games Playne and Inward, and his puzzle game Maya's Dream. We meet on a regular cadence to discuss and work through the challenges of indie game development.Playne launched in May 2020 and has become the most popular meditation and mindfulness game on Steam with an Overwhelmingly Positive rating and over.

US

I created the game industry’s first living map and comprehensive catalog of nearly 9000 game development organizations around the world. gamedevmap started as a passion project to bring game developers from around the world together. I research and validate new entries, maintain the dataset, and respond to email and social media. gamedevmap is sustained.

Austin, TX, US

I worked on level layout for an unannounced course in Walkabout Mini Golf using Gravity Sketch collaboratively with the Design team, building placeholder assets in Blender and Modo. I was a part of Design Reviews for several courses. I contributed props and artwork to another unannounced course. In addition, I identified and facilitated opportunities to.

Seattle, Washington, US

I represented DeepWell DTx at the Game Developers Conference and laid the organizational groundwork for conversations with select game development studios. I followed up with a post-conference status update for internal distribution to company leadership. Additionally, I provided late-stage build feedback for DeepWell’s debut title Zengence and recommended.

Phoenix, AZ, US

I developed a research-based understanding of the Northern Alaska-based Iñupiat and Yup’ik during Preproduction on Never Alone 2 with the goal of creating compelling and authentic level design. This involved studying how Alaska Native landskills and subsistence lifestyle could inform open world gameplay systems and traversal, for example how hunting and.

Alameda, CA, US

I synthesized clinical input with art and design feedback and direction for External Studio Partners who were building Immersive Healthcare Activities for the REAL Immersive System (www.realsystem.com). My exploration of academic research and the broader therapy landscape as related to art and game design considerations was intended to provoke discussions.

Alameda, CA, US

As the first employee at Penumbra to focus exclusively on Second Party projects and relationships, I established business infrastructure and developed best practices for the Second-Party publishing initiative, then onboarded key stakeholders on language and process. I created materials to educate game developers about the REAL System and worked with our.

Alameda, CA, US

As the second hire after the Studio Head, and the Art Director for what would become Penumbra's REAL Studio, I led development of our first Immersive Health project for Stroke Rehabilitation, Happy Valley. Together with our core team, we crafted a unique approach to physical therapy and built a "skunk works" game development studio inside a publicly traded.

Petaluma, CA, US

As a Senior Artist, I was the go-to person for thousands of props (interactive objects) on a $3.5 billion USD global franchise that created the Toys-to-Life genre of video games and spawned a Netflix animated television series. I provided art direction and production support to a team of prop artists while also creating game-ready assets and first-pass.

US

After we shipped Lair, I served as Lead Artist on several prototypes including a Kid Icarus pitch and prototype to Nintendo and a Pilotwings-like Wii title we called Wii Fly. Wii Fly was a small project at Factor 5 that played to our core strengths at a time when two other larger projects were in production. I loved how nimble our talented little team was.

US

There was a Reduction in Force event at Factor 5 as we approached the final third of our development on Lair. The Art Department we had built was cut in half. I worked with our Human Resources team to notify those impacted and set up an external community to help them find their next opportunities. I stayed on in a Human Resources capacity to help with the.

US

After bringing the last of the acclaimed Rogue Squadron series of games to completion as a Senior Artist, I became the studio’s Art Department Director as we sought to grow the team and take on multiple projects. This was primarily a People Management and Project Management position. We started and stopped development on several projects, including a retro.

US

I joined Factor 5 as the team was finishing up Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III Rebel Strike. In my Senior Artist role, I contributed random props to get several in-production on-foot levels to a finished state before working with Senior Level Designers on the Rebel Base on Hoth and several locations on Tatooine, including the Sandcrawler, a Landspeeder race.

San Francisco, CA, US

As a Level Designer on the original Psychonauts, I collaborated with Concept Artists, World Builders, Programmers, and the rest of the team to bring this much-loved award-winning game to life. I took Tim Schafer's high-level story outlines and made them functional levels: I built level and collision geometry in Maya, scripted gameplay in Lua, and created.

Chippendale, New South Wales, AU

I built low-poly Tiki-themed architecture and props, and designed user interface for one of the first Social Massively Multiplayer Online (Social MMO) worlds called There.There the company was featured in National Geographic’s December 2001 article on Silicon Valley as "a startup still in 'deep stealth' mode" where "most of its offices come with futons for.

San Francisco, CA, US

I started at LucasArts on Grim Fandango, one of the classic games of the Adventure Game era. I was on a small team of Background Artists creating pre-rendered environments in Softimage from Peter Chan's stunning concept art. I was responsible for the following:Year One: Part of the Petrified Forest Maze, Beaver Dam Gate, the Beaver DamYear Two: Elevator to.

San Diego, CA, US

While at Illumina Productions, I concepted and built 3D props and backgrounds for Quaternity, an adventure game set in a near-future San Francisco that was cancelled after the completion of our live-action shoot.I also contributed to a children's game called Imagynasium, co-developed with Robert Redford's Sundance Institute and published by SouthPeak.

My first project after graduating from college was Daymare, an adventure game written by Neal Stephenson (the author of cyberpunk novel Snow Crash). I worked with our Lead Artist to create photo collages from the live-action shoot and build psychedelic memory sequences from them in Adobe Premiere.