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Keith S. Wilson

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Game Design

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Zee, a non-binary high school student with shoulder-length brown and red-highlighted hair stands on the second floor of a high school. Zee wears a yellow short sleeved school uniform and has brown skin. In the background are yellow lockers, and a giant yellow banner with a cartoon image of a bee on it. There is a text book that says Yeah, I know. I mean I guess I'm just used to it. Even when I'm not working, I always feel like I'm being watched in that store."

Step Up – PC Game

2025 / Resilient Games Studio
Simone, a Black teenage girl with curly dark hair done up in a bun is walking across a bridge. She is in a white and blue long-sleeve shirt, pink pants, and white tennis shoes. The scene is of a park with another bridge to the left, trees to the bottom right, and two streams that meet near Simone. A black man lies on a blanket relaxing. In the corner of the image is a notification that reads "Current Objective: Go to Grandma's house."

Caduceus Quest – PC Game

2025 / Resilient Games Studio
This is a full-color illustration of a hybrid animal created with the Once Upon a Tale animal cards. The animal is facing left, and has the head and front paws of a corgi, the body and legs of a barn owl, and the tail of a stegosaurus

Once Upon a Tale – Card Game

2019 / Designed for Lurie Children’s Hospital in Collaboration with The Field Museum
A photo mockup of the game app TaleBlazer. In the photo is an early model pink iPhone, with a second iPhone to its side, with the screen facing up. The screen has a screenshot showing. At the top of the screenshot is a bar with various phone icons, including the battery indicator, the time (5:58), and the Bluetooth icon. Below that is a title reading "TaleBlazer," with icons of two foot prints beside it. Below that is a small yellow diagonal banner that says "18.4 MB." Beside that is a color illustration that shows a blue sky with cartoon stars on it, a red and gray 50's-style cartoon rocket, and two fern leaves on either side of the rocket. Below the rocket is a beige banner that reads "Earth to Mars" in all caps, and below that, the text "A Journey Through the Plant Hall," also in all caps. Below this illustration is a black bar that repeats that title.

Earth to Mars – Phone App

2016 / Designed for Game Changer Chicago & The University of Chicago
This is a scan of a historical map of the sky. The color of the map is a deep blue, like those of a cyanotype. A five-pointed star is horizontally centered and near the top of the map, from which dotted concentric circles are drawn. Through those circles are radial dotted lines, dividing the sky into a semblance of a globe. Stars are drawn on the map, and illustrations of different constellations appear as well. Labels of each constellation appear in English, as well as a number of Roman numerals. All drawings and text appear in white.

Star Centos – New Media

2015 / Designed & Performed for Adler Planetarium
A digital image of the title screen for the game The Black Box. The left side of the image shows two sketchy black shapes that appear as if they might be the wall and ground of a box the viewer is standing inside of. The rest of the image has a white background, and contains a white biological cell that has been cut in half to show its organelles , which are a variety of different colors. Each organelle is numbered1-13. Over the cell illustration is sketchy writing that reads "The Black Box."

The Black Box – PC Game

2015 / Designed for Game Changer Chicago & the University of Chicago
This is a promotional photo of secret black lit lab for SEED. The photo shows a room cast in blue and lit with a black light. On the left side is a bulletin board filled with diagrams and documents, some lit up, and a pink glowing hand print at the very top. The walls of the room are white painted brick. At the center of the room is a a bonsai tree on a hexagonal platform with thin legs. The bonsai is enclosed in a reflective clear hexagonal container that perfectly fits the platform. Surrounding the bonsai are many monitors which glow green or white and face the bonsai. The platform is split slightly in the middle and glows very bright white. On the ground is a laptop, and leaved vines snape up the platform's legs. There are four people in the image, all of whom are wearing white lab coats. 1) A white man with short hair, a beard, and glasses. He is standing to the left, and facing away from the camera toward the bonsai. 2) A white man with short hair, a mustache and beard, and glasses. He is holding a glowing ball fand examining it. He is standing behind the bonsai. 3) A Black woman with long braided hair. She is to the right of the second man and facing inward toward the bonsai, and reaching into or behind the platform it sits on. 4) A brown-skinned man with short hair and short facial hair. He is on the far-right, leaning against the wall. He is looking past the camera to the left, and wearing goggles that sit on his forehead. Keith S. Wilson on right side.

S.E.E.D – Alternate Reality Game

2014 / Designed for Game Changer Chicago & the University of Chicago

Keith S. Wilson

Poet, Editor, Game Designer

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