Adam Sulzdorf-Liszkiewicz is a designer, educator, and writer. He is President of the award-winning game design and virtual reality studio RUST LTD., where he serves as Narrative Director for the best-selling virtual reality game Hot Dogs, Horseshoes, and Hand Grenades (a.k.a. H3VR). He is also the author of AFEELD, the first full-length collection of digital literature ever published under peer-review by an academic press (CDDC at Virginia Tech, 2017).

Adam has designed and consulted for clients such as Dave and Buster’s, Emblematic Group, the Independent Television Service, Nokia, Strategic Actions for a Just Economy, Toyota, the United States Department of Justice, and numerous research labs and universities. His work has appeared in Diagram, Hobart, InVisible Culture, Kotaku, Leonardo Electronic Almanac, Seneca Review, and Word For/Word, and has been exhibited at the Library of Congress, the Center for Art and Media (ZKM), the "Aesthetics of Gameplay" exhibition at ACM Siggraph, the Game Developers Conference (GDC), the Curtis R. Priam Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC), the Modern Language Convention, the Games+Learning+Society Conference, the Electronic Literature Organization Conference, the Boston Festival of Indie Games, the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, the CalArts Library, the UCLA Game Art Festival, and GameFest, where his game THE HOLD received the People’s Choice Award (“Best in Show”). His work has also received an &NOW Award for Innovative Writing, an Award for Socially Responsive Communication/Design/Art at Memefest, and the Grand Prize in the Unity3D DirectX11 Competition. Most recently, H3VR has been selected to the highest category (i.e. Platinum) of Steam's annual "Best of Virtual Reality Awards" five years in a row, and in 2020 Adam and his colleagues at RUST LTD. received the "Best Developer Award" in the UploadVR Awards.

Since 2008, Adam has held academic positions alongside his creative practice, most recently at Michigan State University, Occidental College, USC, and UCLA. He received his PhD from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California, his MFA from the Department of Media Study at SUNY Buffalo, and his BA from Allegheny College. He lives in Lansing, MI.

Curriculum Vitae (last updated Nov. 2023)