Wake: Tales from the Aqualab

2D Artist

Game Trailer

Character Design

Sofia (Coral Reef Mechanic): Tall, confident, with a pink jumpsuit and a wrench over her shoulder. Prof. Cempaka (Coral Reef Scientist): Short, stout, with glasses and a short black beard. Silias (Bayou Scientist): Messy red hair and a handlebar mus
Ollie: Nonbinary teen in a puffy off-white jacket with a giant hood. They wear a large earring and baggy orange pants. Tío Rico (Kelp Forest Mechanic): Smiling man with a large belly and dirty orange overalls. Mom (Kelp Forest Scientist): Stern-look
Four color explorations of an Ollie concept art.

Journal Illustration

An open journal with notes and illustrations. Left page: a drawing of a scientist ID card with text, "Got my science badge!! So excited. I wish Mom wouldn't worry so much. I LITERALLY GREW UP HERE." Below is an old Polaroid of a research vessel with
Journal illustration: a charcoal and watercolor drawing of a gravestone with the name MEREDITH. A hagfish and an octopus with a skull face cling to the gravestone. Text: "I can't get her off my mind..."
Left page: a giant eyeball drawn in white and washed with blue paint. Black ink fills the negative space around the eye with the shape of a terrifying sea monster with huge teeth. Question marks are scribbled all over the page. Text: "Sam is in troub
An old Polaroid of a young woman with big brown hair and a distant smile. Above it, drawing of Ollie using a knife to swim out of a net. Ollie has escaped, but looks sadly back at the Polaroid. Text: "It feels risky to cut myself free... I thought I

Poster Art

Thumbnails iterations of alternate Wake posters, first in black and white, then color. Submarine with black tentacles behind; portrait of Ollie overlaid with whales; ship with giant glowing face silhouetted above.

Credits:

Principal Investigators

David Gagnon

Ryan Baker

Shari Metcalf

Producers

David Gagnon

Jennifer Scianna

Creative Director

Sarah Gagnon

Art and Music Director

Eric Lang

Education Fellowship Director

Jim Mathews

Mechanics Design

David Gagnon

Bobby Lockhart

Eric Lang

Phil Dougherty

Level Design

Jenn Scianna

Amy Kamareinen

Amanda Sommi

Shari Metcalf

Aidan Myers

Levi Huillet

UI/UX Design

Eric Lang

2d Art & Animation

Reyna Groff

Emily Merideth Lewis

Eric Lang

Mary Benetti

3d Art & Animation

Forest San Filippo

Mary Benetti

Client:

Field Day Lab x Harvard, Carnegie Mellon, & the Penn Center for Learning Analytics

Role:

Concept Artist / Character Designer / 2D Artist

Story Design

Sarah Gagnon

Lindy Biller

Eric Lang

Jenn Scianna

Writing

Lindy Biller

Sarah Gagnon

Reyna Groff

Levi Huillet

Erik Zetina

Translanguaging Consultation

Mariana Castro

Diego Román

Original Music

Cyril Peck

Sound Effects

Cyril Peck

Autumn Beauchesne

Game Engineering Leadership

Autumn Beauchesne

Game Engineering

Levi Huillet

Alexander Grabowski

Travis Bird

Pascal King

Matthew Murphy

Dausi Husaini

Nicholas Spevacek

Aidan Myers

Sites, Species and Phenomena Research

Jenn Scianna

Emily Merideth Lewis

Aquatic Science Advising

Amy Kamarainen

Game Development Tooling

Autumn Beauchesne

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