Hello! I’m Dylan Mahler. I graduated from UC: Santa Cruz in June 2025 with degrees in Computer Science and Electronic Music.
I currently produce music and develop games as EchoLane. My debut title, BubbleBeast DigiDungeon, was nominated for Best Student Game at the 2026 Independent Games Festival (IGF)!
I have 8 years of experience making highly-polished audio, visual, and written content promoting projects for EchoLane and for clients! I specialize in social media for indie games, multimedia asset creation, and community management.
I'm a lover of birds, roguelikes, and clarinet. In college, I helped run UCSC’s game development club, GDA!
Leads a team of 5 to develop and promote an indie rhythm game, achieving 220+ 99% positive reviews on Steam and a finalist nomination for Best Student Game at the 2026 Independent Games Festival (IGF)
Maintains relationships with streamers and influencers, promoting the game and organizing exclusive events like interviews
Efficiently makes promotional assets, produces trailers, and writes copy, building a consistent, fun identity across platforms and campaigns
Grew a new fan Discord server to 150+ users via in-person/online outreach
Concepted, produced, and edited promo videos & trailers used pre-and-post-launch
Wrote custom Unity tools to capture footage in-engine
Led contract artists to edit and produce a 27-minute, audio-synced soundtrack video
Co-led a team of 2 to concept, storyboard, produce, and edit a highly-polished animated music video for the online music festival Vocagathering 2026
Ranked 29th of 430 festival submissions, achieving 50K views & 480K total impressions in 2 months on YouTube
Directed audio on a fan-game's reveal trailer, achieving 95K views & 11K likes on YouTube
Mixed in-game music & original compositions to match trailer's fun tone and dynamic pace
Recorded, edited, & mixed crowd voice acting
Produced a trailer for a 6-month, 38-developer student game w/ Game Design & Art Collaboration
Led scripting, storyboarding, and editing, overseeing creative vision start-to-end
Edited a 38-minute, intricate, audio-synced visualizer for a colorful electronic music album
Designed 50+ custom assets in 2 months using Adobe Photoshop & Illustrator
Posted a new video daily on YouTube for a month pre-launch to promote the album