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  • Game Design Exercises: Brother

    Game Design Exercises: Brother

    Band of Blackadder Goes Forth Category 1st Person, Romance, Adventure Platform Android cellphone & iPhone (using Talk Like That, a home-brew conversation engine) Concept Romance between two American WW1 soldiers, teased out over an entire game, during the tense period waiting for the next big push. Outline of Play Experience As the player interacts with other characters, and participates [...]

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  • Game Design Exercises: Center for Nuclear Mistakes

    Game Design Exercises: Center for Nuclear Mistakes

    Science Doesn’t Always Turn Out How You Think It Will Category Casual Game, Tower Defense Platform Android cellphone & iPhone Concept Discover the nuclear bomb through  cutesy-fied chemical reactions that cause the existing chemical slurry (the properties of a level) to change. Levels take you through the history of the nuclear bombs’ development, to the final testing [...]

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  • To Seek Adventure: An Intro

    To Seek Adventure: An Intro

    The real post on To Seek Adventure (2SA) is upcoming soon, but in the meantime, some ridiculous fiction about the two signature characters (Soteria and Valentine), written for the rules booklet. No one ever asks how we met; just how we’ve kept from killing each other this long. I’m always getting underfoot when he’s [...]

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  • MAST: The Wireframes

    MAST: The Wireframes

    Context To complete my thesis, I needed to provide a very complete walkthrough of the software package I was proposing (in lieu of developing it). This entailed making what felt like hundreds of screenshots, each detailing something interesting or illustrative about the tool. However interminable the process, however, it gave me a lot of practical [...]

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  • Conferencing: Presenting 5 Boroughs as an Educational Tool

    Conferencing: Presenting 5 Boroughs as an Educational Tool

    Context During the second semester I ran the 5 Boroughs project, I began to look for ways to increase its publicity and academic ‘weight’; primarily to increase our chances of picking up grant funding. And so, under my own initiative, I submitted abstracts to a number of small conferences, and was accepted as a presenter [...]

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