Adrian Sandoval

@adriansandoval.net

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He/him. Game dev professor @ Drexel U/UArts, IGDA Philly Chair, Lead designer for Little Nemo & the Nightmare Fiends, Cake enthusiast. Opinions my own. http://www.adriansandoval.net

Zelda: Ocarina of Time Gohma fight at 4K60, with the traditional HUD elements replaced with fan HD mods.
A pencil sketch of a pikmin chilling in front of a hill with a twisty tree. It's a sketchy drawing.
Tim Schafer, 2019 GDC Awards, wearing a union shirt and hat for the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local 16.
A magazine ad for quickshot controllers. They all are some combination of black, red and blue.
An NES handlebar controller from QuickShot. There's a blue strip style button for start and select on top toward the back, with a toggle switch for auto fire just under it. On the front of the controller are two, big, red plastic buttons for the directional pad and one button. They have blue trim around the buttons.
A girl around 9-10 years old with a very 90s haircut is playing a video game that can't be seen off to the side. She is holding a game controller that has handlebars similar to a bike, and its difficult to see where the buttons are. There is a visible blue strip along the top of the controller
World Design for 2D Action Adventures from Chris W. Totten and Adrian Sandoval on a table at the GDC book store inches away from Steve Swink's excellent book Game Feel
9 games Chrono Trigger Mother 2 Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening Super Mario World Portal Metal Gear Solid Silent Hill 2 Rockin Kats Half-Life
Selphie from FFViii singing about trains
Blade Runner (1982) (A screenshot of the skyline from Snatcher, I believe the Sega CD version)
The Design Philosophy of Heather Flowers Tuesday, February 10th @ 7PM Hybrid Event: In-person and Webinar Drexel URBN Center 3501 Market St, Philadelphia, PA Open to the public
A screencap of GDC 14 with game developer Koji Igarashi on stage. A red circle is placed around the approximately 1/4 corner of the back of my head that is in view, showcasing a tuft of messy orange hair.
A finished Little Nemo idle pose standing in front of a mock-up stick figure face consisting of a big circle, and simple lines for the eyes and mouth. A single line sits atop its head. The simple mock is meant to demo a guy with a big head and a bit of the floor strapped to the top of his head
A glazed meatloaf in a baking dish on tinfoil.
Casserole dish full of creamy, crispy potatoes on their sides
A playbill for Waiting for Godot at the Hudson theater. Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter are on the front.
Hybrid event: In-person and Webinar Drexel Excite Center 3401 Market St., Philadelphia PA Open to the public
A black Analogue Pocket that I'm holding. Ys Book 1&2 for the PC Engine CD is on screen.
Top down view of the mister case
Fresh tomato sauce with garden fresh peppers (and store bought onions and garlic)
My hand holding a copy of Spy Fiction for the PS2 against a dark grey backdrop
Little Nemo & The Nightmare Fiends - a giant stick figure head spits a clip art of a water droplet at Nemo. It has a straight, 1 pixel thick black line on its head. Under Nemo's feet is a 'ground' made of 1 pixel thick black lines, with the tops of circles appearing just under them. (mock by Adrian)
Artist depiction of Fleming's Bond
Rockin Kats for NES box art
Adrian smiling at the camera with Arya, a beige pug mix, resting next to him
Badassatron at our DnD table, with a black and purple t-shirt that says "The Ebontide: A War of Shadows"
Art of Adrian dressed as Terry Bogard, holding the brim of his baseball cap.
Adrian with a white and brown pug/terrier mix named Arya on his lap.
A selfie across the street from the Palace Theatre on Broadway in NYC. A banner for Glengary Glen Ross is lit up above.
A powered-on GameGear with the Sonic Chaos title screen on display.
A woman stands at the doir way with a giant Mr Saturn plushie covering her entire head. She rests her arm on the door frame confidently
A two panel storyboard for Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends. Nemo is against a dark grey background with a black, straight line platform under his feet. A simple, white circle with a stick figure face that is three times as big as Nemo faces him. The second panel depicts the face spitting at Nemo, with the saliva as a completely different art style. A third panel shows a detailed sketch of a giant chewing, the artist's depiction of the mock storyboard to its left
A man in a red t shirt holding a giant cardboard cut out of Kumail Nanijani's head.
A blue can of Georgia Prime Blend coffee
Digitally inked, black and white sketch of four men playing Rock Band, with two singing on mic, a guitarist, and a bassist
Castlevania Symphony of the Night gane over screen Let us go out this evening for pleasure. The night is still young.
Yoshi's Island for SNES. A big, red arrow on a wooden post points to the right toward the level goal and at a big, red switch just off to its side.
A 3D Printer mishap. A half finished Steam Deck holder lays on a cement basement floor. About two feet away is a big pile of plastic thread, forming an almost perfect, if sketcky, spiral on the ground.
A 3d printer printing a keychain, it currently just looks like a white hexagon
Dizzy Media's logo
Text cap from IGN (or IGN64 as it was called in the day): "IGN64 has obtained a copy of the trailer. For your convenience, we've digitized it in both 160x120 and 320x240 formats. Be warned though, the 320x340 version is more than 30MBs in size and does not feature sound. Enjoy."
Early 2000s Seth Green, complete with gelled up messy hair and stubble that I did not have in college
Screenshot from Parasite Eve for the Playstation, Aya Brea faces forward in a mid close up shot, staring forward slightly off center, a window behind her with her back in the reflection. The NYC skyline can be seen in the background, with the Chrysler building ominously glowing red.
3 minifigs on a platform that looks like a floating stone platform, with cotton acting as cloud's below
Selfie. A mix breed small pup rests her head on my lap
A waiting room with six pictures of seashells and starfish in a horizontal row divided in half by a wall clock. The middle picture on each side is set slightly lower than the rest. There are three black, pleather chairs spaced, evenly below them.
Me with a puppy (Arya) head on my lap
School Rumble for ps2 on a light purple background
New York Times article headline: Obama is First in Their Second Life, by Sarah Wheaton, posted on March 31st, 2007. The article is about Obama's campaign office in the game Second Life. There is a photo of the office, with 5 digital avatars huddled around each other in a large room with wall size windows looking out into a dusk colored skyline. Obama's 2008 campaign logo is awakardly stamped on one of the windows. The graphics are fairly minimal in presentation.
I wishlisted Fledgling Manor on Steam, and you can too!
The box for Pac-Man 2 The New Adventures for Sega Genesis against a dark grey background