Game Design, 3D Modeling, Art Direction, Environment Modeling/Design, Architectural Visualization, Level Design, Virtual Reality Dev, Digital Sculpting, Texturing, PBR Texturing, Shader creation, Optimization, Procedural asset creation, Maya, Blender, 3ds Max, Unreal Engine, Unity & Vray.
Temitope Olujobi is a Queer Nigerian-American Architect turned Game Designer making games in the creases of odd and completely cracked combinations. Temi began their indulgence into all things 3D when they combined their love of architectural design and roleplaying in the Second Life modification community; making freakishly delightful virtual dwellings for some very extravagant gamers. Since then, Temi has used their design practice to feed their insatiable curiosity about the connection between two seemingly very disparate parts. What happens when you combine human shit with a windmill? Restorative Justice with a holodeck? An anthropomorphic hand and mouth with the dreamy visual triptychs of Hieronymus Bosch? These are all questions Temi has attempted to answer with their digital art and video games in some unusual ways.
Temi’s first big game exploring the intersections of Architecture, Narrative and Restorative Justice called Edge of Healing was a Different Games Festival (Boston, Mass) and the Game Developers of Color Conference (New York City, NY) selection. Temi’s digital artworks have been exhibited in galleries and books including the New York City Storefront for Art and Architecture and The Architecture of Closed Worlds, Or What is the Power of Shit? (written by Lydia Kallipoliti). When Temi is not making or playing games, they are writing about games. Their research on engagement gaming for community planning called Unreal Urbanisms was selected to be presented at the Responsive Cities conference at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain). They received their B.Arch from Syracuse University and their MFA from the Game Center at NYU.
Most recently Temi performed their solo dev game/lecture, Hands That Steal from "Other" Mouths, that combines a hand, a mouth, empire and extraction at the Juneteenth Lecture Series in Austin, Texas. This year, they also just shipped a critically acclaimed indie game called Wanderstop, with some incredible folx at Ivy Road Games.
Temi currently works and plays between Austin, TX and Brooklyn, NY.
