David Antognoli
Assistant Professor Of Game Design at Columbia College Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Antognoli is an Assistant Professor of Game Design and community-focused director with nine years of formal experience shaping interactive and educational game experiences. Based in Chicago, he teaches game design and development at Columbia College Chicago while directing Night City, where he curates public-facing interactive arts and manages a team building a social-emotional learning game deployed in Milwaukee schools. His background spans commercial multiplayer design at High Voltage and contract programming and content development for Unity, e-learning, and mobile games, blending hands-on production with curriculum design. He also supports professional education through facilitator and program leader roles for MIT xPRO and NYU’s AR/VR certificate programs, signaling a commitment to bridging industry practice and pedagogy. Notably, he combines macro-level game system design and team leadership with grassroots community event programming, demonstrating both studio-scale and place-based impact.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BA English Game Design Computer Science Minor, BA English Game Design Computer Science Minor at Indiana University Bloomington
Github Skills (26)
visual-studio10
sandbox9
nes9
dotnet8
monogame8
xna8
pixel-art7
game-development6
2d-game6
arduino5
cross-platform5
com-port4
command-line4
command-line-tool4
cli4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
dantogno/unity-scripting-upgrade
Jul 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 9 months
IAMColumbia/Game-Design-Resources
Feb 2020 - Oct 2022
Resource for Game Design at Columbia College Chicago
Contributions:15 commits, 26 pushes in 2 years 8 months
chicagogame-designgame-development
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