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Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
Creating a Modern but Retro Immersive Sim in Skin Deep
1 hour 44 minutes Posted Aug 25, 2025 at 12:00 pm.
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Trent Kusters chats with Brendon ChungTynan Wales, and Suzanne Will about their immersive first-person shooter, Skin Deep. Together they discuss the inspiration for Skin Deep and how it evolved from it's original design; their desire to create an accessible entry point for the immersive sim genre; their ideas around level design and player guidance; what they left on the cutting room floor and how they decided what to remove; and how they successfully increased scope and team size during the development process. 

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Episode Host: Trent Kusters

Producers: Claudio Tapia and Josh Chu, The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

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