Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz


Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz is an American designer and educator who teaches at Occidental College. He has designed virtual reality games and serious games.

History

Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz received a MFA from SUNY Buffalo and a PhD from the USC Interactive Media & Games Division. He has taught game design and theory at the University of California, Los Angeles. As a student he developed theory around popular games, specifically FarmVille, as a cultural phenomenon.

Theory on Virtual Reality

Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz has been credited with connecting Absurdism with Virtual Reality as an extension of ongoing philosophy on how humans imagine themselves when in VR environments. He has cited the absurdist Fluxus art movement as a point of entry for this theory. In these same conversations he has described the importance of so-called Relational Aesthetics in VR, where human-to-human relationships outside of the VR headset are important to setting up any experience within.
Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz designed the VR game Hot Dogs, Horseshoes & Hand Grenades, which was released in 2017.