Anthony Ortega Production Coordinator (CAELT) Corporate Faculty (IMED)
Phone: 717-901-5100, ext. 5148
Email: AOrtega@HarrisburgU.edu
Biography
Anthony Ortega is a Production Coordinator for the Center for Advanced Entertainment & Learning Technologies. Within that capacity, he oversees client projects developed by student employees as part of the HU Design Cove and produces the IMPACT podcasts which can be found on Spotify. Anthony has also created, managed, and run various game development workshops, both solo and collaboratively, in various formats whether they were 2-hour sessions or multi-week full day summer camps, both on campus and at other institutions.
As corporate faculty for the Interactive Media (IMED) and Game Design (GAME) undergraduate programs, Anthony teaches courses in game prototyping and tabletop game development. Additionally, he is the Experiential Learning Coordinator for IMED.
Anthony was also part of a research grant, collaborating with local non-profit The Bodhana Group to explore the benefits of tabletop RPGs in treating social anxiety. This was the first study of its kind to examine TTRPGs using both qualitative and quantitative analyses.
Overall, Anthony enjoys guiding students in their academic and professional journeys, whether it’s through classroom projects or client projects, allowing them to learn through the iterative design and playtesting process. There is nothing better than seeing a design come to life over the course of several rounds of changes and seeing people enjoy it.
In his spare time, Anthony is a husband, a father, a game designer, and an artist. He has a game published in the book Roll for Learning: 51 Micro Tabletop Role-Playing Games to Use in the Classroom. Additionally, he’s had his artwork hung in Harrisburg University’s HU Micro Gallery on the 3rd floor of the Health Science Tower and has been commissioned to create artwork for personal collections and tattoos.
EDUCATION
MET – Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
BFA in Illustration – Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, PA
Education
Masters in Entertainment Technology (MET), Entertainment Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Adelaide, Australia & Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
BFA in Illustration, Pennsylvania College of Art & Design, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA.
