Meet the Team
About Marielle Brady
Cards of Heart Director Marielle Brady recently received her MFA in Interactive Media (conc. Games and Health) at the University of Southern California. She specializes in creating digital games that support health and wellbeing. Along with a team of passionate student volunteers, she created Cards of Heart as her thesis project in the hopes of creating an experience that would open up conversations about mental health while being fun and innovative.
Production
Will Alvarez - Lead Producer
Juan Higuera - Assistant Producer
Brittaney Mallory Smothers - Art Producer
Art & Animation
Jebby Zhang - Art Director
Allena (Ena) Zhu - Advisor, Production Assistant
Yue Deng - Character Design & Concept Artist
Christina Wang - Sprite and Concept Artist
Ash Rodriguez - 2D VFX Artist
Cindy Gao Liang - Environmental Artist
Teri Shim - Card Artist
Jamie Lim - Poster Artist
Mingye (Jasmine) Fan - Concept Artist
Victoria Cruell - Battle Pose Artist
Engineering
Lihao Chen - Lead Engineer
Yiteng Zhou - Gameplay Engineer
Daniel He - Quest Engineer
Yueqin (Amy) Lee - Audio Engineer
Noah Elliot - UI Engineer
Huidan Zheng - Technical Artist
Narrative Design
Jordan Hanes - Lead Writer
Bryan Nguyen - Environmental Narrative Lead
Helen Spight - Lead Level Narrative Designer
Shannon Kilbride - Narrative Designer
Darcy Bergstein - Narrative Designer
Alexandria Sorenson - Narrative Designer
Somi Awasthi - Narrative Designer
Kristine Nguyen - Narrative Designer
Systems Design
Boston Moreland - Lead Systems Designer
Jonan Pho - Systems Designer
Anik Panja - Systems Designer
Audio
Justin Shin - Composer
Starling Tan - English Horn, Alto Recorder & Tin Whistle
Wenqi (Ivy) Xu - Sound Designeer
UI/UX
Ruolin Tu - UI/UX Lead
Willem Lent - UI Artist
Kezia Leung - UI/UX Artist
Marketing
Christie Yip - Marketing Lead
Usability
Yixia (Sherry) Xie - Usability Lead, Memory Artist
Ziqi (Andie) Gao - Playtesting Assistant
Special Thanks
Marientina Gotsis - Thesis Committee (Chair)
Sam Roberts - Thesis Committee Member
Dr. Raffael Boccamazzo - External Advisor