Project Leads
Nathan Holbert, Ph.D., PI, Assistant Professor of Communication, Media, and Learning Technologies Design at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Daisy Rutstein, Ph.D., PI, is an educational researcher in the SRI assessment group.
Betsy DiSalvo, Ph.D., co-PI, Associate Professor in the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology.
Matthew Berland, Ph.D., co-PI, Associate Professor of Design, Informal, and Creative Education in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction at UW–Madison.
Jeremy Roschelle, Ph.D., co-PI, is the Executive Director at Digital Promise.
Other staff and students working on this project include:
Teachers College, Columbia University
Marleen Villeroy, Stephanie Yang, Sawaros Thanapornsangsuth
Georgia Institute of Technology
Rui Zhou, Akansha Gupta, Junjie (JJ) Xu
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Anthony Pellicone, Vishesh Kumar
SRI International
Satabdi Basu, Reina Fuji, Yuning Xu (now at Kidaptive), Meara Algama
Filament Games
Will Jackson – Producer
Luke Jayapalan – Game Designer
Megan Tran – Lead Visual and Interaction Designer
Joe Horan – Visual and Interaction Designer
Dave Hoffman – Additional Visual Design
Brandon Korth – Additional Interaction Design
Rob Frank – Lead Game Engineer
Jared Levine – Game Engineer
Chris Johnson – Game Engineer
Logan Branjord – Additional Engineering
Lynden Fenske – 3-D Artist
Chenya Chang – 2-D Artist
Josh Bartels – Composer and Sound Engineer
Georgia Adkins – Quality Assurance
Brian Czech – Quality Assurance
Nell Farrell – Quality Assurance
Neale LaPlante Johnson – Quality Assurance
Dan Norton – Account Manager
Beats Empire is licensed as CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. That means anyone is free to share or adapt the game as long as you give proper attribution, don’t use the game for commercial purposes, and distribute your version of the game using the same license.