Karen Chang
Karen Chang found game design at Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). She started as a fine arts kid, making life drawings and still art. But her love for video games led her to change majors, switching into the interactive art department at the Baltimore arts college by her senior year.
“At that time for my thesis, I partnered up with my classmate Cole Pritchard,” said Chang. Together they founded Studio217, an independent game studio.
“Our thesis was actually Mister Mart, our flagship game,” she said, referring to the virtual reality game that the studio demoed at events like GameScape and Baltimore Innovation Week. “We made a prototype for that game back in 2015 with the Oculus DK1, which is one of the first VR head sets.”
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