Alternative control game where players spin the wheels on an upside-down bicycle to control a spaceship. Accepted to MAGFest Indie Arcade 2023. A game about the joy of spinning a wheel really fast - and using your hand to stop it.
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Creative Work
Much of my creative work focuses on playful interactions. This often is done through alt control, but other variations including singing and audio, and a shared phone two-player experience. These 'twisty' designs are fun for me to play with and design around, often leading to new gameplay expereinces I may not have designed without that initial change in the input.
A majority of the projects I make I do so to ensure that I stay current on the technology I teach in class. Often, I am doing most everything for the project - programming, controller construction, and art asset production. This is only broken in instances when I am working on game jam teams, where my goal is to spend time with friends making a thing, moments and times I highly cherish.
Whistle While You Brew
A Virtual Reality Singing Game shown at Meaningful Play 2016. Plays with the joys of singing while you work, the effect of self-produced music for getting into a 'flow' state.
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Paths and Environments
An augmented reality simiulation shown at Games, Learning, and Society 2013. This game used a Kinect to gather user motion through a digital space, and then simulated the life and growth of an invisible garden affected by user presence. The garden could only be viewed through a 3 degrees of freedom tablet which displayed the current state of the world. A reflection on the worlds that our presence affects and how that prescence unintentionally affects those worlds. Please forgive me I was (am?) terrible at documenting my work, so pictures of it in action are unavailable.
Timelapse of the virtual world as gallery goers created and destroyed life by their presence.
Game Jams
A site of research, a way of spending time with friends. My game jam games include a story about middle age, a game played by tuning an in-game radio, one with harmonica as the input mechanism, a game where you play as a demon-possessed washing machine, and several others that simply keep me sharp at making media.
Many on itch.io Others on Global Game Jam