Atakan Cankorur has diverse work experience in the gaming industry. In 2012, they worked as a Concept Artist at Pline Visual. From 2012 to 2014, they served as a Game Designer at Fenris Entertainment, where they gained valuable expertise in game design. In 2014, they joined Hologram LTD as a Game & Application Design Consultant, where they provided consultancy services for projects related to Turkish Airlines and other clients. In 2015, Atakan became a Lead Game Designer at VBcraft, contributing to game development until 2017. Simultaneously, they joined Capella Entertainment LLC as the Lead Game Designer from 2015 to 2018, where they conducted research for their thesis on creating order out of chaos theory in games. In 2015, they also served as a Consultant at Voscreen. Most recently, Atakan co-founded Arvis Games in 2019, where they successfully launched a card game called Board Royale through a Kickstarter campaign.
Atakan Cankorur obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) in Industrial Product Design from Kadir Has University, where they studied from 2007 to 2011. Following this, they pursued a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Game Design at Bahcesehir University from 2016 to 2019. In addition to their formal education, Atakan also achieved several certifications, including an edX Honor Code Certificate for Introduction to Game Design from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MITx) in January 2014, a BUG Game Lab certification from Bahçeşehir University Game Lab Network in June 2012, and a 3Ds Max Kursu certification from 3D Akademi in January 2009.
February, 2019 - present