My Mentors and Inspirations
Film Directors: Damien Chazelle, Jiang Wen 姜文, Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, Christopher Nolan, Lou Ye 娄烨
Product Leaders: Steve Jobs, Allen Zhang Xiaolong 张小龙, Evan Spiegel, Jony Ive, Tony Fadell, Zhang Yiming 张一鸣
Architects: Thomas Heatherwick, Superstudio, Liu Jiakun 刘家琨, Le Corbusier, Antoni Gaudi, I. M. Pei 贝聿铭, Mies van der Rohe, Frank Gehry
Poets: Su Shi 苏轼, Seamus Heaney, Bob Dylan, Edgar Allan Poe, Cao Cao 曹操
Writers: Antonie de Saint-Exupery, Kazuo Ishiguro, Wang Xiaobo 王小波, J.D. Salinger, Margaret Atwood, Virginia Wolf, Franz Kafka
Modern Artists: On Kawara, Andy Warhol, Yoko Uno, Cindy Sherman, Wassily Kandinsky, Sol Levitt, Marcel Duchamp
Games & Developers: Will Wright, Jenova Chen 陈星汉, Fallout, Giant Sparrow, ZA/UM, The Last of Us, Ubisoft Mainz, AdHoc Studio
Musicians: The Beatles, Radiohead, The Flowers 花儿乐队, Green Day, Pu Shu 朴树, Pink Floyd
Education
New York University Game Center
BFA in Game Design and Development
Minors in CS, Math, and Producing
George School (Newtown, PA)
High School Diploma
Awards & Expo
2024 - Unity Unite Conference
Invited Exhibitor
2024 - Paradox Interactive Student Award
Nominated Producer
2024 - Game Developers Conference (accepted)
Presentation and Exhibition at New York
State Pavilion
2023 - NYU Game Center Winter Showcase
Game Exhibitor
2023 - EGD Waffle Games Exhibition
Game Exhibitor
2023 - Game Developers Conference
Presentation at New York State Pavilion
2022 - Jonas Tyroller's Wowie Game Jam
ranked #11 in Visuals and #78 in
Creativity among 1018 global
submissions.
2021 - Chinese University Student
Game Development Association
Best Game Jam Game
2021 - indiePlay China Game Award
Best Game Jam Game Nomination
2020 - Robert F. Kennedy Human Right
Fund Student Video Contest
Top 3 over 1200+ global entries
2020 - Greenfield Youth Film Festival
2nd Place Best Documentary
Best Public Service Announcement
2020 - Film Now Film Festival
2nd Place Best Narrative Film
Work
Current
2025 Snap Inc. (Snapchat)
AR Engineer, Spectacles
Past
2024 Transfr VR
Unity VR Developer
Shipped VR Career Exploration 2
2024 Tencent-Ubisoft Studio
Game Designer Intern
Assassin’s Creed: Jade
2023 Transfr VR
VR Software Engineer Intern
Shipped VR Career Exploration 2
2022 Theater in the Dream
Contract Game Mission Designer
Theater Game “Kowloon Walled City“
Presenting at Game Developers Conference 2023 for the New York State Pavilion
CONTACT
pengguoart@gmail.com
Shoot me an email or linkedin message! Always down to get coffee :)
