The 4–20 Year Olds Update

This past week, I’ve worked on art assets for my pilot episode of The 4–20 Year Olds.

Worldwide Matchmaking: Revising my Senior Thesis Project

Creating a game based on the player role playing as a programmer tasked with creating a matchmaking algorithm for a fictional video game was scrapped since creating algorithms for the players to work with was too difficult and time…

Testing Nintendo Labo

I was beyond privileged to have Professor Warren Buckleitner invite me Tyler Philburn, and Luke Nelson to a Nintendo…

Progression Pictures: Week 2

Hello there, or, hello again, if you’re coming from my previous post. Welcome back, if that’s the case! I’ve…

An Exploration of UX / UI

I decided this week I’d begin learning Sketch and InVision to complete a more “designed” version of my current mobile application. I laid the groundwork for the design in my winter thesis presentation slides, creating a style guide of sorts (colors were chosen, kerning for text was…

Environmental Recreation, Optimization and Crashes [Week 2]

When I first pitched my project, it was focused on recreating not only a visual sense of place, but also a physical one — with the overarching goal being to engage as many senses as possible. What I want to do is breach the…

The week of technical difficulties… (Week 2)

Why are macs so….. different?

I have been on computers for as long as I can remember. No, scratch that. I have been on PC’s for as long as I can remember. Macs only entered my life about a year ago, when I…

Foiled Plans (Week 2)

This week did not go according to plan…

I noticed that the sprites I was using to represent the characters that the player would be controlling were too difficult to quickly spot amongst the various other tiles (they looked an awful lot like my locker sprites). So…

The Water Street Project Week 2: Web Design and Event Location

The main thing that I worked on this week was continuing the process of reserving a space on-campus to host my performance for my thesis project. I did, however, get to make some progress with framing my content for my…

Weekly Sprint 2

This past week, I set out to complete two things:

1. Create a week-by-week schedule for the other projects
2. Create an example video of what I would like the others to turn out to, based on my own project

The First Step

The first step on the second week, oh boy. So I had a hard time getting back into the swing of things after the break. I would love to blame something like sickness or a busy schedule however it’s my old habit of not organizing my time and not putting the right priorities first.