Who is
Brad Smith

Brad Smith is in his third year at Whittier College, where he is in the Whittier Scholars Program with a focus on development management in game design and digital storytelling. He is an inveterate gamer, with favorites running the gamut from the graphically action-oriented Call of Duty series to the fantasy action genre seen in Black Desert Online. He is fascinated, not just by playing the game itself, but how the game looks and feels to the user. The intersection of the game design and storytelling intrigues and motivates him. He believes that the depth of the game and the user experience comes from how the story evolves (it can’t just be mindless violence), which leans on the background and scenery and importantly the costuming of the characters. Brad also believes that program leadership in game development is critical in taking a successful game from concept to commercialization. Brad has led teams during summers for an internet start-up that focused on moving from a design concept to commercialization of an event photography on-demand business.