Tim L. ~ Co-Founder, Dev Director

Tim Lehnen currently attends Reed College as a junior, double-majoring in English and Philosophy. Tim spends an immense amount of time on writing and has background in poetry. Tim is a co-founder of Project Aqua, leads the team, and takes control of the story and gameplay.

John S. ~ Co-Founder

John Skinner was the one who started it all. He shared his dream of creating Project Aqua with his friends, where it took off. Though he is not with us to work on the project any longer, he will always be remembered. Project Aqua will be dedicated to John Skinner.

Ernest L. ~ Art Director

Ernest is a freshman at Art Institute of CA - San Francisco. Until then, he had explored the world of art on his own, from web design to creating new worlds in the third dimension. Ernest directs the group of artists at Aethr, making sure work gets done and milestones are reached.

Danny K. ~ Character Designer

A sophomore at Academy of Art in San Francisco, Danny has had years of practice and experience when it comes to character design. Danny is in charge of creating the concepts for all of our main characters, as well as NPC's and the culture of Aqua.

Javier T. ~ Tech Artist

Javier is currently a student at an art school in Argentina. He has wonderous abilities when it comes to designing futuristic technology in an artistic sense. Javier helps bring the cyberhuman world alive, from drawing entire cities to designing cyberhuman soldiers.

Lee S. ~ Character Modeler

Lee is currently setting up his own animation studio and does freelance work. He has quite an impressive background in 3D art, being the lead artist for Project Orange. With us, Lee is in charge of bringing characters off paper and into 3D space.

Alex P. ~ Aqua Artist

Alex attends High Tech High as a senior. His artistic abilities rage from logo designs to photomanipulation to drawing nature and symbols. With art plastered all over the walls of his room, Alex is creating the world of Aqua, from landscape to culture to the entire planet itself.

Christina E. ~ Aqua Artist

Christina is a student at Ringling School of Art and Design. She is a master at traditional art and organic design. Christina is yet another Aqua artist, working with Alex to create an entirely new world from plantation to creature design.


Robert M. ~ Software Director

Robert attends Cal Poly, where he learns the magic of electrical engineering. He is a self-taught programmer who continues to amplify his own coding abilities. Robert oversees the work of other programmers in the creation of the game engine for Project Aqua.

Eliot L. ~ Scripter, Archivist

Eliot attends Chapman University with an eye on film production. He is our resident XML wizard and subversion guru. For Project Aqua, Eliot archives all of our work, scripts the game into reality, gives advice and opinions for just about everything, and does too much.


Jonathan K. ~ Programmer

Jonathan is aiming for a mechanical engineering degree at UC Davis. He has a rather large amount of coding experience under his belt, from java to php to coding robot functionality. He aids Robert in the software development, and provides the game with high level AI.