Rafael Fajardo
Professor at SWEAT
Denver, Colorado, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRafael Fajardo is a professor and founding director of SWEAT who has spent over two decades designing socially conscious videogames and shaping experimental electronic media education at the University of Denver. Promoted to full professor in 2024, he leads the Emergent Digital Practices program and co-investigates an NSF-funded project applying humane game development as holistic pedagogy in high schools. His work blends critical theory, visual design (MFA RISD), and hands-on game design to produce exhibited games and curricular models for games-for-change and reflective play. A long-time board advisor for iDMAa and contributor to Games for Change, he pairs scholarly research with practical projects that aim to improve the human condition through playable experiences. Notably, his career bridges art-school rigor and applied pedagogy, making him as comfortable critiquing emerging technologies as he is shipping interactive works.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
BFA, Studio Art with a concentration in Design, BFA, Studio Art with a concentration in Design at The University of Texas at AustinMFA, Graphic Design, MFA, Graphic Design at Rhode Island School of DesignSt. Anthony's High School Seminary
English, Spanish
Github Skills (13)
javascript-game-engine10
p5play10
twine10
box2d10
graphic9
p5js9
nonlinear9
javascript8
pygame8
game-engine7
game-development7
js6
python6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
rafaelfajardo/PySpaceInvaders
Mar 2023 - Dec 2025
Coyotl - Invasores - Space invaders clone in python/pygame
Contributions:3 releases, 9 PRs, 60 pushes in 2 years 9 months
rafaelfajardo/border-games-rewrite
Dec 2019 - Sep 2022
Crosser (2000) and La Migra (2001) rewritten in P5.JS and P5.Play.JS
Contributions:2 releases, 616 commits, 365 PRs in 2 years 9 months
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