Meet Our Team

A.J. Jepson didn’t choose the path of games and art - it chose her, probably sometime around age five when a pixel sprite whispered ancient secrets into her ear. Since then, she’s been on a lifelong quest to merge creativity and code into worlds that behave just a little too well to be normal. Armed with a degree from the International Academy of Design & Technology and an uncanny ability to debug reality itself, AJ has created portraits, games, and assorted digital wonders that seem to materialize from pure imagination.

As the studio’s CTO/CEO, she guides the team with equal parts visionary brilliance and chaotic artistic energy. Rumor has it she can refactor a codebase with one hand while sketching a character concept with the other, all while delivering a motivational speech about how “Art isn’t a job. It’s a way of life.” Some say she runs the studio. Others say the studio orbits her like a small, well‑organized moon.

Either way, AJ is the creative gravitational force that keeps everything aligned - beautifully, weirdly, and unmistakably her way.

Valerie’s background in game design and music performance is the least interesting part of her origin story; ancient prophecies claim she was once a celestial wanderer who fell to Earth after winning (or possibly losing) an arm‑wrestling match with an entire constellation. In the studio, she crafts sound effects so powerful they’ve caused nearby plants to grow faster, guides the QA team with the calm authority of someone who has personally negotiated with volcanoes, and reviews student applications with the same intuition she uses to detect when a raccoon is plotting something.

She scales rock walls like gravity is merely a polite suggestion, expands her Pokémon roster with luck that statisticians have declared “cosmically suspicious,” and charms every animal she encounters—sometimes to the point where they form a small parade behind her. Valerie brings that same legendary chaos, star‑touched curiosity, and mildly concerning magical energy to everything she does at TwinRayj, and honestly, we’re all just hoping she never remembers the full extent of her powers.

Jade Grunow is the studio’s Operations Director, a title she wields with the same energy as someone holding a magical staff that controls deadlines. She has an uncanny ability to sense workflow disasters before they even think about happening, often appearing in doorways just as someone mutters “uh‑oh.”

Her spreadsheets behave better for her than for anyone else, her schedules align themselves out of fear or admiration (no one’s sure which), and she can calm a full‑blown production meltdown with a single raised eyebrow. If the studio were a bustling fantasy tavern, Jade would be the quietly powerful sorceress keeping the whole place from catching fire - gracefully, efficiently, and with a level of organizational wizardry that defies known laws of nature.

CaryAnn Weydert is the studio’s Marketing Director, a role she approaches with the enthusiasm of someone who has just discovered a brand‑new button labeled “Do Not Press” and immediately pressed it for science. She has a supernatural talent for turning the most ordinary ideas into campaigns that somehow explode across the internet like confetti cannons set off by gremlins.

Colleagues swear she can predict audience reactions before the audience even exists, and that she once crafted an entire marketing strategy on a napkin that outperformed three months of planning. If the studio were a traveling circus, CaryAnn would be the ringmaster who convinces the crowd to cheer, gasp, and buy merch they didn’t know they needed - all with a wink, a flourish, and a suspiciously well‑timed sparkle.