Jivitesh Dhaliwal

Jivitesh Dhaliwal

GAME DESIGNER

FIRST YEAR - NEW YORK

Jivitesh Singh Dhaliwal is a game designer and developer. His lifelong mission is to design games which help players understand themselves better by bridging the gap between belief and knowledge. Driven by this mission, he transitioned from his job as a software engineer to working full time on games.

He moved to the US to pursue his MFA in Interactive Media and Games from USC and worked as a game designer and developer on critically acclaimed titles like 'Walden, a game', winner of Games for Change's Most Impactful Game and the IndieCade showcase title, 'Phenomenology', among others.

Jivitesh has played crucial design roles on several commercial titles, including the Emmy nominated game 'The Under Presents', the popular games, 'Hello Puppets!', 'Hello Puppets! Midnight Show', and ‘Virtual Virtual Reality 2’. He is the recipient of the Eric Dybsand AI Memorial Scholarship by the IGDA Foundation. Currently, Jivitesh is working at That’s No Moon as a technical game designer.