We've pulled in another developer! Emmy Krum (www.linkedin.com/in/emilia-kr...) who is also finishing up a degree and graduate work at Worcester Polytechnic and is joining us for some work in Unreal. One of the first things Emmy worked on is this advanced foliage effect!

A last introduction! Anam Sajid (www.linkedin.com/in/anamsajid...) is an excellent Unreal dev we were connected to through IGDA contacts. Do you want to pet all the animals? Anam is making sure we can pet all the animals!

Another introduction! Our audio and music director is Keith Zizza. Keith joins us with decades of games industry experience with major studios. He's been doing some of our sound effect design in Unreal with tools for design time adjustment like this:

3rd introduction… our Engineering Lead is Will Teixeira (www.linkedin.com/in/willteixe...) Will set up the foundation of our game in Unreal and has been working on crazy stuff like making the grass grow, which this is just the start of!

Another introduction: Our Visual Design lead is Julia Krawiec (www.instagram.com/ringarune/). She's been doing amazing work laying out the game style and concept art for everything. Here's the tree concept she made and the model she and Tyler are building!

A first introduction: Our 3D model and animation lead is Tyler Jones. Tyler mainly works on Hollywood productions and even has an IMDB page (www.imdb.com/name/nm6201901) One fun model being sculpted this week is a key stylized tree asset that's very cool!