While you look at this, I am probably ferverishly

writing code, rigging a model in 3dsmax, or tuning the

phototransistor circuit for the mixed reality game I am
developing for the capstone project for my Master’s
Degree in Game Programming from DePaul University
what is it you ask?
 a physical game a digital game

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there is an urban scale physical game revolving
around the alignment of laser cannons

and a digital game within a procedurally

expanding obstacle course
 and when one is winning, the other is losing

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based laser units have been fully
prototyped and the housings designed.

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generator, core qbert mechanic, and a developing editing pipeline

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before the 2010/2011 school year began, I
worked on an independent game with industry
professionals, faculty and students from DePaul
I worked in many roles, including gameplay design and concept art, ...
 ... but focused the majority of my effort programming core
Watch systems such as camera control and ship flight mechanics
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before DePaul, my work investigated interactivity,
play and games in projects completed with my
partners in a design collaborative known as sand_box
a precursor, cross reality game, was conceived between a race to contain swarms
of “intelligent” balloons inside an operable house and a climbing video game set
inside an hour glass filled with household objects
sand_box coalesced
around an early
installation project at
an abandonded home in
rural New Hampshire

To put the tired building

back into play, we
performed a series of
cutting, hinging and
restructuring operations
to allow its walls to
pivot, turning it
inside-out
we then coated the existing painted
surfaces with phosphorescent paint
to charge outside-in the sun, for
nightime illumination indoors
years later,
the salvaged
walls became
input devices
in a gallery
installation in
Brooklyn
one wall
controlled
a custom
lighting
system

the other
controlled
the playback
of video
projection
if the walls aligned, effectively cutting the space in half, the system “flatlined” and
minutes later automatically “defibrillated”, surging to life after swapping functionality
while in limbo; this kept the space and it’s occupants in a constant state of play
for a collection of video based oral
histories, sand_box designed and built
an interactive environment intended to
express the stratifcation of time and history.
100 sheets of cnc milled plywood, custom
electronics + software, provide museum
goers access to the curated media
viewers explore a
topography of sliding
picture frames,
selecting the histories
they are interested in
viewing, much like a
collective juke box
on each end, a navigable display panel
provides access to the collective queue
 in a collaboration with filmakers in Denmark, we
explored the metaphor of infinite space in the
design of an airport for purgatory via green screen
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it kept going, and going
and to keep the lights on, we practiced more conventional architecture
for residential and commercial clients across the country
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prior to forming sand_box, I was an
associate at MESH architectures in New York
at MESH, I managed high-end residential...
+ up-scale commercial architecture projects, and ...
built signficant data driven web sites and new media
this professional work enabled and supported the
past 8 years of teaching design and digital media
in the highly rated College of Architecture at the
Illinois Institute of Technology

courses which include:

 the $120k house project

an advanced design studio

focused on the development
of strategies for implementing
affordable yet progressive
housing solutions for a
transformed market

perspectival section, Camille Yu

 collab studio

a collaborative design studio

using serious gaming and
Second Life for the simulation
of architectural projects with a
pseudo design-build approach

1/2 semeseter collaborative design implemented using Second Life, Collab Studio
 advanced self directed
studio projects

including the prototyping of

hand held urban mapping and
fitness gaming systems

component prototyping, interactive mockups, and diagrams for mobile technology based urban adventure game. Shavanna Pinder
 physical computing

spatial gaming with physcially

interactive technologies
where students, with no prior
experience, learn to program
microcontrollers for sensing,
control and interactivity

motion tracking based pong remixes

responsive canopy installation

 networked technologies

a history theory survey in

new technologies changing
our world and training in the
creation of new media using
actionscript and flash
interactive ash based presentation

procedurally dynamic self-organizing network implemented using Action Script

digital media

introductory and advanced

courses in the use of 3d
modeling, rendering and
animation, 2d raster and
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vector graphics, and general

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visual acuity in all media

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service beyond coursework

and of course I couldn’t

escape the responsiblity of
designing websites for the
college’s marketing initiatives
 At present I am teaching core
design studios for 3rd year
undergraduates, introductory
and advanced digital media
courses and advising Master’s
and PhD thesis projects
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see syllabi and other examples
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