The Sunsgrove Studios Team
Alex Kain
Founder & Game Director
Alex entered the game development industry in 2007 as a game designer and writer for titles like the BAFTA-nominated Ninjatown (DS) and Game of the Year winning Space Miner: Space Ore Bust (iOS). Since then, Alex has shipped over 30 released titles like Guild Wars 2, Dust: An Elysian Tail, Tooth and Tail (an IGDA award nominee for Best Narrative), and Salt & Sanctuary. Alex is also the co-creator and writer of Beyond the Western Deep, the decade+ long running comic he produces with artist Rachel Bennett.
Rachel Bennett
Art Director
Co-creator and main series artist for Beyond the Western Deep, Rachel has spent the last 12 years building out the unique visual language of the world of the Western Deep, producing over 350 pages of comic art, two hardcover collections, and dozens of pieces of associated marketing and merchandise art. Additionally, she has served as the series’ Art Director, helping to ensure consistency across numerous guest projects and side ventures.
Mike Smith
Technical Director
With over 20 years of engineering experience in AAA game development, Mike’s career has taken him from EA’s iconic Tiger Woods series, to Counter Strike: Global Offensive at Hidden Path Entertainment, to his current role at Amazon Game Studios as a rendering engineer on New World. Mike is also an accomplished independent developer, having founded his own studio, Elecorn LLC, and released several games and animation-related tools.
Lucas Fehring is a Grammy-winning engineer, CSUN Media Composition graduate, and a former student of Elizabeth Sellers. He is the lead engineer at MB Gordy’s recording studio in Tarzana, CA, and has engineered hundreds of sessions for movies, games, and TV projects.
Lucas Fehring
Audio Director
Nolan Markey
Composer
Nolan Markey started out in the music industry as an intern for composer Bear McCreary, and soon after began working as an orchestrator on Star Wars: Rebels. He has gone on to write music for and orchestrate several Star Wars shows (including Bad Batch and Ahsoka), The Legend of Vox Machina, League of Legends, and of course Beyond the Western Deep.
Knights of the Light Table is an Austin, Texas-based animation studio with a focus on delivering quality work that makes an impact.
Helmed by Patrick Stannard, known for his work on the hit Netflix Castlevania series, Knights has gone from strength to strength since its conception in 2017. From just a few skilled creators, the company has grown to a collection of artists from all over the world.
Knights of the Light Table
Character Animation