Venezuelan American video game designer and producer
Kellee Santiago
Santiago at the Game Developers Conference in 2010
Born
Caracas, Venezuela
Occupation(s)
Game designer, producer
Known for
Thatgamecompany
Notable work
Cloud, Flow, Flower, Journey
Spouse
Mike Stein
Website
kelleesantiago.com
Kellee Santiago is a Venezuelan American video game designer and producer. She is the co-founder and former president of thatgamecompany. Santiago was born in Caracas, Venezuela, and raised in Richmond, Virginia, where Santiago played video games from a young age and was encouraged by her software engineer father to experiment with computers. While attending New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, she became active in experimental theater, planning to pursue it after earning a master's degree in the Interactive Media Program of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. However, Santiago became involved in video game design and produced Cloud, a game developed by Jenova Chen and a student team. Its success sparked her and Chen to found thatgamecompany upon graduating, and she became the president.
Santiago produced the studio's first two games, Flow and Flower, moving more into her president role during the development of the third game, Journey. In addition to her work at thatgamecompany, Santiago is one of the backers of the Indie Fund. Indie Fund is a group that invests in the development of independent video games and is a TED fellow. She married the fellow University of Southern California graduate Mike Stein in 2010. After the release of Journey in 2012, Santiago left the company; since then, Santiago has served on several advisory boards and worked for Ouya and Google Play Games in several roles. In 2019, she joined Niantic as the head of developer relations.
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founded by University of Southern California students Jenova Chen and KelleeSantiago in 2006. The company was a developer for Sony Computer Entertainment...
and met fellow student KelleeSantiago. After a brief period at Maxis working on Spore, he founded Thatgamecompany with Santiago and became the company's...
2010, Ebert published an essay, dissecting a presentation made by KelleeSantiago of thatgamecompany at the 2009 Technology Entertainment Design Conference...
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but had financial backing of Sony as well as publishing support. KelleeSantiago of thatgamecompany believes that they are an independent studio because...
an exhibition at PAX East, Thorson entered an agreement with Ouya's KelleeSantiago to release exclusively on the microconsole. Critics saw this as being...
Division and later became an Ouya exclusive after being discovered by KelleeSantiago. Thralled is a side-scrolling platform and puzzle game where the player-character...
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whose score of 12-under-par, 276, was seven strokes ahead of her teammate Kellee Booth. 33 teams entered the event and completed the competition. Each team...
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