Spring 2022 Studio Members

Heather Cole is the Founder and Director of MonRiver Games.

Catherine Cober is the project lead for Meowgantown as well as a character designer, freelance artist and creative writer.

Emma Copley is from from Fairmont, West Virginia. She is a senior at WVU majoring in interactive design with a minor in business cybersecurity. Emma’s role within MonRiverGames is asset creation.

Jake Ripperger is a Journalism major with a minor in Interactive Design for Media. Jake specializes in graphic design and layout and hopes to join a marketing team one day.

Drew is an Interactive Design for Media major with a main focus in graphic design, specifically for sports. He interned for many semesters as a Graphic Designer and Photographer with WVU Football. He is now working remotely full time for the University of Florida Gators Football team as a Graphic Designer and Photographer, and plans to move down to Florida after graduation.

Lauren Cook is a senior Intermedia student with minors in Painting and Interactive Design for Media. She serves as a character artist for MonRiverGames.

Kenzie is a web designer for MonRiver Games. She also works as a designer and writer for Meowgantown.

Madison is the project lead for A Mug of Mon County. She also works as an asset creator for MonRiverGames.

Josh Burdette is an advertising and PR major with a minor in IDM. His specialties include Adobe Photoshop, HTML, CSS and C# programming. He is currently serving as a developer for MonRiverGames.

Mary Madeline Gould is an advertising and public relations major with an emphasis in advertising and a minor in interactive design for media. She is currently working as a copywriting intern for Gabe's marketing team and serves as asset lead for A Mug of Mon County.

Sam Gorski is a journalism major with minors in marketing and interactive design for multimedia. His specialties are photography and writing, but he is also passionate about filmmaking and hopes to one day work on film sets.

Ryan is a senior majoring in Multidisciplinary Media Studies. He enjoys watching movies and TV shows in his free time. After graduation, Ryan hopes to find a job within the film industry and finish writing his first screenplay.

Shauntil is an interactive design for media student and worked on the development team for most of this session.

Tara is a Strategic Communication with an emphasis in Advertising major with a Strategic Social media and Interactive Media Design minor. Tara is from Virginia and is a senior. She hopes to become a social media manager for a company after graduation.

Tristan Haley is an Advertising and Public Relations major with a minor in interactive design. He is currently working as a communications specialist intern for University Relations and a Public Relations Director for the Martin Hall Agency.