About Me

Alanna Turner is a game designer at EA Sports working on the Modes team for College Football. She is responsible for features including player and coach progression, recruit generation, and other new systems. Along with maintaining the quality of those designs, she works to create opportunities to prototype features.

Prior to EA Alanna was a game designer at the Army Game Studio in Huntsville Alabama. She earned her Master's degree in Entertainment Technology from Carnegie Mellon University. In her spare time she explores how technology like natural language understanding, augmented reality, and virtual reality can enhance the experience of board games, miniature wargames, live action and tabletop role playing games, strategy games, and escape rooms. Her current work is on 3 dimensional strategy games using mobile AR, as demonstrated by his Space Pirates and Galactic Commander projects.

Click here to download her resume.

 
 

Projects

 
Projects
Instinct
Instinct

Instinct is a tactical combat deck building hybrid board game where two players play as battling insect queens. Collect food, spawn new bugs, and evolve your bugs in this intense display of creature maneuvering!

Space Pirates
Space Pirates

Space Pirates is a room scale multiplayer mobile AR strategy game modeled after tabletop miniature games.

Galactic Commander
Galactic Commander

Galactic Commander is a single player mobile AR tactical space combat game built on the lessons learned from Space Pirates

Sticky Climber
Sticky Climber

Sticky Climber is a android game where players shoot and cut their webs to climb an ever narrower chasm.

My Remote!
My Remote!

My Remote! is a three player board game where players fight over control of the TV before mom gets home. It is the result of a board game jam and won favorite game!

 

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