Christina "Phazero" Curlee facts for kids
Christina "Phazero" Curlee is a talented video game designer and artist. She works at Insomniac Games, a famous company that makes popular video games. Christina helped create games like Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart, Spider-Man 2, and Wolverine. She also wrote a special paper for her Master's degree about how game levels can make players feel different emotions.
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Christina's Early Life and Education
Christina studied art at the University of Texas at Austin, finishing in 2016. Later, she earned her Master's degree in Game Design from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019. Her creative work has been shown at many video game festivals and art exhibits. These include IndieCade, Gray Area Festival, SAAM, and EYEO. Christina's solo projects often explore important topics like healing and personal growth.
Christina's Career in Gaming
In 2016, Christina was chosen as an ambassador for the International Game Developers Association Foundation's Women in Games program. This program helps support women in the video game industry.
Notable Game Projects
In 2018, Christina's game Artifacts II – Jacaranda was featured at IndieCade. This game explores how people deal with difficult experiences from their childhood and learn to grow from them. She also created another game called Game Design... The Game (?).
The year 2019 was a very important one for Christina's career. After getting her Master's degree in June, she joined Insomniac Games in September. She started as a mission designer for Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. Later, she worked on Spider-Man 2 and Wolverine.
Key Missions Designed by Christina
Some of her most well-known work includes designing missions for the spiderbot, Glitch, in Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart. She also designed missions for the Ardolis area in the same game. For Spider-Man 2, Christina was a key mission designer for the Coney Island section.
Teaching and Academia
In the fall of 2019, Christina also began teaching at UCLA. She became an adjunct professor in the Department of Design and Architecture. As of 2025, Christina continues her design work at Insomniac Games. She also holds an assistant professorship at UCLA, sharing her knowledge with new game designers.
