A Story is Not a Tree

My Piece: Like most white girls, I love smoothies. And like most people raised in modern Western culture, I have no idea where most of my food is sourced from. In this project, I sought to combine my passion for smoothies…

My final map: The “making the invisible visible” idea of my map is visualizing the inner world and let the feelings blend into the real world. The real world is presented through recording myself through camera. It is the catching…

This is the sketch of my map surface: My process of doing this conference project was quite different from my usual routine. I used to make plans and tried to think everything through before starting. However, this time I tried to reduce…

My final game is very similar to my first draft, but it did suffer some changes. The player is now coloured yellow, while the police is blue. He is trying to get to his red Ferrari without being noticed. He…

Catch Me If You Can is my final conference game, it is designed in a very simple way, giving a player simple controls and a clear goal. As seen on the first sketch the player is controlling the colored smaller…

In a previous draft of this map, the main focus of my project was to use a series of circles, with each layer of the circle representing a different fear. The closer to the center of the circle, the deeper…

Permission (formerly Ion Rush and Ion Deluge) is a game about…permission. With very few differences from its beta, Permission is still a game about waiting for the opportune moment. The most significant and recognizable change to occur in this version…

When I began with this installation project, I was very daunted by both the size, and the pressure to deliver such a poignant message. My installation hopes to “overwhelm by fact”. Once you enter you are faced with a monitor…

Perhaps the most difficult part of finalizing our conference game was trying to figure out how to port the game from the desktop to the tablet. Although we had come up with a fairly simply and attractive interface on our…

  (the new title card) For my conference project, I continued working on my second group game, “Light the Lamps” (which was a continuation of my first group game, “Relay.”) I renamed the game “Lamp Lighter,” and updated it quite…

The evil bats in Light the Lamps have three states: moving, attacking, and frozen. The bats start the game moving randomly around the screen – their “moving” state is their default state. They transition into their attack phase – which…

The second game, I decided that I would use as my conference game because I wanted to get the extra time to really get this game right. I talked about the beginning of this game earlier in one of my…

Updraft, formerly known as Rightfully Yours, is still a game of patience, cunning, and perseverance, only now it’s a lot more aesthetically sound and even more difficult. With the addition of five fans that alternate in two directions at entirely…

The goal of my particle game’s bad guy was to have him be harder to defeat as you started to defeat him. So in these photos I have my bad guy stages, as well as a couple different screens that…

Cloud Catcher is a interactive casual platform game. In order to make the sun rise player has to stop the clouds from bouncing (catch them). The player starts with 60 seconds on the timer and 18 lives. If the attempt to catch…

Spare Me is a conventional platformer with a bright palette and a whole lot of bowling balls. Make your way to the tiny star to advance to the next level, but proceed with caution. If you get smacked, it’s back…

This map aims to make visible countries which, for whatever reason, no longer exist. These countries might have been annexed, voluntarily become part of another country, or have been secessionist states that were quickly dissolved. Some, like Transylvania, still exist…

By the end of the fifteen days, the amount of time spent was flipped and I had spent more time in the backyard than I did in the pub (at around day 6 I got food poisoning from one of…

My planetary self portrait isn’t looking so barren anymore.  It’s now more of a goofy collage than anything else, but progress is progress.  One thing that could be tweaked, in addition to the rough edges on the photo clippings and…