Understory Games is a small indie games developer based in Pasadena, California.
Our goal is to make fun and meaningful games that explore the relationships between people, history, and nature.
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FUTURE FORESTRY
Our in-progress first title is a management / life sim about forestry in California set in the near future.
ABOUT US
Nick Crockett
Nick is an animator, designer, and programmer from the Sierra Nevada foothills. He started making games with Flash as a teenager in the early 2000’s. Since then, he has also made many small, strange games that have been exhibited in festivals, pop ups, and galleries around the world, as well as a feature-length experimental animation about coal mining and dinosaurs called Fire Underground. Besides that, he worked for many years as an assistant to multimedia artist and game designer Eddo Stern, and has taught classes on game development and animation at the Carnegie Mellon School of Art and at the UCLA department of Design Media Art.
Julia Wang
Julia is a visual and UX designer, photographer, and illustrator from the San Francisco Bay Area. With 8+ years of experience, she’s worked on digital products, branding, and print in tech and entertainment. She has also been photographing clients since 2008, taking portraits of musicians and artists, as well as for corporate clients in tech.