🎮 24 HOUR GAME MUSIC HACKATHON 🎮

 Raza Ahmad

Raza Ahmad traveled this path: Went to theater school. Learned directing. Went to film school. Learned some more directing, but kinda different. Knowing that neither theater nor film were 'smart bets,' got good with tech and made a living that way. Inevitably or fortuitously, this led to games. Joined Google circa 2011 to do odd jobs related to an Alternate Reality Game played using mobile phones and location data. That went fairly well. Helped launch a game called Ingress, then a game called Pokémon GO, then worked on a bunch more games in that ilk, some shipped, some sunset -- such is the business. Continues to work the good ship Niantic (in its most current corporate restructure) doing things in the vaguely overlapped space of technological exploration, creative direction and unbridled playfulness. Has worn such titles as 'Creative and Game Director,' 'Senior Manager of Game Design' and 'Web Designer II.'

 Dave Levison

Composer, sound designer and music producer David Levison got his music education at the California Institute of the Arts as well as through performing with multiple bands in the LA. area and beyond starting as a teen. He spent over a decade as a composer and sound designer in the video game industry, working for companies including LucasArts, Epic, Electronic Arts, Google, Sony and Konami.  Since 2018 he has been on the Creative Audio team at Meta.