Trilights: An Interdisciplinary Video Game by Odditea Studios
AJ Talley
BIO: AJ is an English major with minors in Creative Writing, Editing & Publishing, and Art & Design. She was born and raised in Alaska, which instilled a contradictory love of the outdoors in a relatively introverted, indoorsy person. She enjoys drawing, painting, writing, and sharpening knives. She spent her time at Whitworth learning how to come out of her shell creatively: opening up to professional artists’ critiques, getting published in Script three years in a row, and hosting writing events and encouraging the “killing of darlings” as the president of the Storytellers Club (2025-2026). In the future, AJ hopes to publish novels and comics that suit the tastes of her childhood self.
MAJOR: English
Minors: Creative Writing, Editing & Publishing, Art & Design
Celeste Depew
BIO: Celeste Depew is from Lynden, Washington, but spent most of her childhood in Wyoming and Central Washington. She is a writing consultant at Whitworth’s Composition Commons and on the editing team for Whitworth’s literary journal, Rock & Sling. She is involved in many clubs across campus (and spends a lot of time making posters for these clubs, which she quite enjoys). Currently, she is the Vice President of Storytellers Club and the Vice President of Whitworth’s Swing and Ballroom Dance Club. Both these club positions are an opportunity to serve the arts across campus, which she finds fulfilling. She also plays bassoon in Whitworth’s Wind Symphony. This summer, she will be interning at Family Promise in Spokane. In the future, she plans to write or edit professionally.
MAJORS: Psychology, English
Minors: Creative Writing, Theology
Elijah Chapman
BIO: Elijah Chapman is a Human Computer Interaction major with minors in Creative Writing and Technology & Communication. He is from Portland, Oregon, but spent the first ten (or so) years of his life in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Eli was the President of Storytellers Club for the 2024-25 school year, and currently serves as the Secretary for Storytellers Club, Treasurer (aka P-Money) for Cool Whip, and has been the Whitworth Radio General Manager for the past two years. He earned the Outstanding Honors Student Award from Whitworth Honors in 2024. After graduation, Eli plans to focus on applying for jobs in earnest, continuing work on this project, and playing through his video game backlog.
MAJOR: Computer Human Interaction
Minors: Creative Writing, Technology & Communication
Nate Moody
BIO: Coming to Whitworth from Medical Lake, Washington, Nate has spent his time at Whitworth distinguishing himself as a musician, writer, and curious to a fault. He plays double bass with the Whitworth Jazz Orchestra, Symphony Orchestra, and numerous jazz combos, with an energetic style of musicianship and composition that has garnered appeal from musician and non-musician alike. This has resulted in an Outstanding Soloist award from the 2024 Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, and selection as the Whitworth University Concerto Competition’s composition winner with his symphonic poem Elegy for a Sparrow.
MAJOR: Music Composition
Minor: Creative Writing
Project Overview: Trilights is an interactive video game that focuses on character and storytelling, aiming to present a new synthesis between the literary and the ludomechanical (game-playing). As an interdisciplinary project, Trilights allows a further exploration of the possibilities of creative writing, acoustic arts, artistic expression, and well-designed programming.
The team, Odditea Studios, was inspired by passionately-made indie games, breaking the mold of stagnation present with modern AAA games. With burgeoning spaces available for indie games, Odditea is creating a game to help preserve and grow these spaces, by interacting with online communities during its development with development logs and continual communication. Odditea is not finished with their work on Trilights, and will be continuing their work after graduation to help make the game and community around it as strong as possible.
