Niko Sanchez

Niko is a transfer student and graduate (c/o 2021) from the University of California: Santa Cruz with a degree in Computer Science: Game Design. He went to Evergreen Valley college where he worked his way to transfer to UCSC in 2019. While he was at school he was one of the leads for Elevator Pitch, a game created with the Game Design & Art Collaboration club at UCSC then later became a design officer for GDA. In his senior year he helped create a cooking game where you hunt your own ingredients, Seventino Midnight Cafe. Now, he’s the Programs Assistant at UCSC’s Games and Playable Media Masters Program. He also streams on Twitch playing a variety of games and sometimes game development!