Who we are
At
Trouble or Nothing Productions, we believe that everyone deserves the talents of a AAA creative video and multimedia production team.
We’ve spent 15 collective years crafting exciting and compelling marketing videos for a classic game publisher, and now we would like to share our talents with you: the solo dev, the indie game studio, the people who love to create and seek genuine connection with those on the other side of the screen.
No brain rot, no “AI”—just good, creative trouble.
We are dedicated to bringing your ideas to life with professional gameplay capture, film production, engaging videos, original content, and expert consulting.
When you choose Trouble or Nothing Productions, you will collaborate with creatives who have worked on video production, gameplay capture, editing, and motion graphics design to market games such as:
DOOM: The Dark Ages
The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion Remastered
Indiana Jones and The Great Circle
The Elder Scrolls: Castles
Starfield
Mighty DOOM
HI-FI RUSH
Ghostwire: Tokyo
Deathloop
DOOM: Eternal
Wolfenstein: Cyberpilot
Wolfenstein: Youngblood
Rage 2
Fallout 76
Prey: Mooncrash
The Elder Scrolls: Blades
The Elder Scrolls: Legends
Fallout 4: VR
The Evil Within: 2 (Psycho Break 2)
Wolfenstein 2: The New Colossus
Dishonored 2: Death of the Outsider
Quake Champions
Prey
DOOM 2016
Fallout 4
Fallout: Shelter
The Elder Scrolls: Online
Reach out to
info@troubleornothingproductions.com
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THE TEAM
Maria Elena Firippis
From the moment she saw Sonic the Hedgehog zip around those iconic loops, Maria Elena knew that she wanted to have a career in the Video Game Industry. She combined her love of Video Games, Animation, and Film Direction to become a Video Producer and Multimedia Specialist, and has worked on over 25+ AAA video game titles.
Hailing from the Washington DC area, Maria Elena has brought her fun, colorful and unapologetically joyful editing style to a variety of video projects for HI-FI Rush, Fallout 76, Tokyo: Ghostwire, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Deathloop, and many other titles she had the honor to work on during her time with Bethesda Softworks’ Marketing Department.
Utilizing her interdisciplinary skills from video production to game capture direction to motion graphics design, Maria Elena is able to create eye-catching and entertaining videos. She enjoys being a part of the whole production process from idea conceptualization to the final production.
Maria Elena graduated from George Mason University with two Bachelors degrees: a Bachelors of Art in Advertising and Public Relations and a Bachelors of Art in Art and Visual Technology
She earned a Masters of Arts from Georgetown University in Communication, Culture and Technology with a focus in Digital Media Marketing and Design.
Maria Elena also holds a graduate certificate in Digital Media Production from American University.
She cannot wait to work with you to create something magical and memorable with your projects!
Cherisse Datu
Raised on the island of Guam, Cherisse grew up with the impression that there were only 3 major professions: teacher, doctor, or office worker. Growing up, a Gameboy and its successive consoles were always in her backpack. When she went to study on the mainland, she discovered there are many more professions and fell in love with post-production.
After studying Film and Media Arts, she went on to work as an hourly news editor for Al Jazeera English before becoming the lead video editor for Al Jazeera English and later Al Jazeera America’s social media show,
The Stream.
In 2015, she joined American University’s JoLT (Journalism and Leadership Transformation) fellowship to study the intersection of journalism and game design. During her fellowship, she discovered yet another profession exists in game design.
She worked as a designer and marketing producer for the Filipino-American indie game,
The Girl Who Sees. In addition, she created the game
Factitious
in conjunction with the American University Game Lab. She also piloted a “news park” pop-up in front of the Newseum in Washington, DC where passersby could play a card game about water conservation.
News Park: Water Conservation was also showcased at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for Climate Game Jam in 2016.
She also edited the Fusion’s 5 episode series on
Girl Gamers. After her fellowship, she worked as an Interactive Media Producer for ESPN’s
The Undefeated
(now Andscape) where she worked on various video initiatives for HBCU and Blerd culture.
In 2018, Cherisse joined Bethesda Softworks as Video Producer where she worked on multiple titles. She also was video lead on all mobile games such as Fallout: Shelter,
The Elder Scrolls: Blades,
Mighty DOOM, and
The Elder Scrolls: Castles.
She worked on Fallout 76 during its launch and beyond - touching on multiple facets of production, from in-game screenshots, season trailers, to social media videos. Her most recent work was creating a 30-minute “Gone Fission” in-game fishing video for the Xbox pre-show showcase in 2025. During her time at Bethesda Softworks, Cherisse also created an in-house video project tracker with a JIRA developer that was later reproduced throughout the company.
Cherisse holds a Master’s Degree in Game Design and Bachelor of Arts in Film and Media from American University. She has spoken about journalism and game design at SxSW, GDC, and GEN Summit.
Cherisse really enjoys learning new software programs, solving a creative problem and seeing a project through to release. She’s eager to see what she can help you create.