Mateo Carlson is a 22 year old Texas-born gaming and music enthusiast. He graduated in 2025 from the University of Texas at Dallas with a major in ‘Art, Technology, and Emerging Communications’ concentrating in video game audio.

Mateo started his game design journey in the summer of 2017, after attending a summer camp at the University of Texas at Austin, where he made his first game. He has played games all his life and is committed to creating meaningful and fun works of art.

He began producing his own music in 2020. Teaching himself the basics until taking university courses on the subject just one year later. He has since won an award for his work on the soundtrack of his game ‘Descent into Madness’.

Software Experience:

Audio

Pro Tools, Reaper, FL Studio, and Wwise

Game Engines

Unreal Engine 5 and Unity

Version Control

Perforce

Other

Microsoft Office