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Samah Damanhoori
Founder - CEO
An emotional shaper of immersive worlds where play becomes a path back to self-understanding. Through games and storytelling, she challenges inherited narratives and conventional fairytales, creating spaces that honor authenticity, complexity, and growth. She empowers individuals to redefine their narratives, celebrating authenticity and strengths beyond societal stereotypes in a world often bound by conventional fairytales.
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Luna McKee
Concept & Visual Development Artist
A California-based concept artist passionate about building immersive, story-driven worlds. Having moved more than twenty times, she brings a strong sensitivity to environment, change, and emotional atmosphere into her work. Luna draws from skills in environment and prop design, 3D modeling and texturing, animation, and visual development. Luna is a rare mix of capability and patience—she knows that meaningful worlds don’t rush themselves, and her work honors that truth.
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Jacob Vennemeyer
Technical 3D Artist
A graduate of the Savannah College of Art and Design with a wide-ranging skill set spanning art asset development, visual effects, game design, and programming implementation. With deep familiarity in Unreal Engine and experience contributing to shipped PC games, they help translate vision into playable systems. Jake is a rare blend of technical curiosity and softness—they enthusiasm, care, and ability to turn art into play elevate our worlds into spaces of exploration, challenge, and joy.
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Pei-Ling Chen
Multidisciplinary artist
A multidisciplinary artist at Blendbound specializing in 3D modeling and visual design for game development. She contributes to in-game assets, branding visuals, and animated storyboards, while also supporting production management and pipeline organization across teams. Pei-Ling is a thoughtful builder—curious, clear-spoken, and generous with her perspective. Her sense of humor and steady leadership make even the most ambitious timelines feel collaborative and achievable.
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Logan Barnhill
a Nashville-based music producer, singer-songwriter, and composer working across pop, R&B, electronic, soul, ambient, EDM, and hip-hop. His background spans production, songwriting, vocal and live performance, and artist development. Logan’s work is defined by emotive vocals, genre-bending production, and purposeful storytelling—creating music that invites listeners to slow down, pay attention, and fully experience the story being told.
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Henry Anderson
Game Historian
A recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a major in History and a passion for weaving historical insight into video games. Raised in San Francisco, he supports Blendbound as a History Intern, researching narrative foundations and connecting real-world history to imagined worlds while helping bring characters to life. Henry’s curiosity about the origins of stories—and the depth of research he brings to every detail—makes his approach to storytelling both thoughtful and contagious.
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