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While you look at this, I am probably ferverishly
writing code, rigging a model in 3dsmax, or tuning thephototransistor circuit for the mixed reality game I amdeveloping for the capstone project for my MastersDegree in Game Programming from DePaul University
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it plays something like this...
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to know more about where the gameplay ideascome from, and how it is supposed to play out
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At this point the hardware and software
functionality of the mesh networkbased laser units have been fullyprototyped and the housings designed.
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the digital game systems are coming together, with a functional spatialgenerator, core qbert mechanic, and a developing editing pipeline
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before the 2010/2011 school year began, Iworked on an independent game with industryprofessionals, faculty and students from DePaul
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I worked in many roles, including gameplay design and concept art, ...
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... but focused the majority of my eort programming coresystems such as camera control and ship ight mechanics
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before DePaul, my work investigated interactivity,play and games in projects completed with mypartners in a design collaborative known as sand_box
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a precursor, cross reality game, was conceived between a race to contain swarmsof intelligent balloons inside an operable house and a climbing video game setinside an hour glass lled with household objects
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sand_box coalescedaround an earlyinstallation project atan abandonded home inrural New Hampshire
To put the tired buildingback into play, weperformed a series ofcutting, hinging andrestructuring operationsto allow its walls topivot, turning itinside-out
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we then coated the existing paintedsurfaces with phosphorescent paintto charge outside-in the sun, for
nightime illumination indoors
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years later,the salvagedwalls becameinput devicesin a galleryinstallation in
Brooklyn
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one wallcontrolleda customlightingsystem
the othercontrolledthe playbackof videoprojection
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if the walls aligned, eectively cutting the space in half, the system atlined andminutes later automatically debrillated, surging to life after swapping functionalitywhile in limbo; this kept the space and its occupants in a constant state of play
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for a collection of video based oralhistories, sand_box designed and builtan interactive environment intended toexpress the stratifcation of time and history.100 sheets of cnc milled plywood, customelectronics + software, provide museumgoers access to the curated media
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on each end, a navigable display panelprovides access to the collective queue
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it kept going, and going
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prior to forming sand_box, I was anassociate at MESH architectures in New York
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at MESH, I managed high-end residential...
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+ up-scale commercial architecture projects, and ...
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this professional work enabled and supported the
past 8 years of teaching design and digital mediain the highly rated College of Architecture at theIllinois Institute of Technology
courses which include:
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the $120k house project
an advanced design studiofocused on the developmentof strategies for implementing
aordable yet progressivehousing solutions for atransformed market
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collab studio
a collaborative design studiousing serious gaming andSecond Life for the simulation
of architectural projects with apseudo design-build approach
advanced self directed
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advanced self directedstudio projects
including the prototyping ofhand held urban mapping and
tness gaming systems
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networked technologies
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interactive ash based presentatio
networked technologies
a history theory survey innew technologies changingour world and training in the
creation of new media usingactionscript and ash
digital media
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digital media
introductory and advancedcourses in the use of 3dmodeling, rendering and
animation, 2d raster andvector graphics, and generalvisual acuity in all media
service beyond coursework
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service beyond coursework
and of course I couldntescape the responsiblity ofdesigning websites for the
colleges marketing initiatives
At present I am teaching core
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At present I am teaching coredesign studios for 3rd yearundergraduates, introductoryand advanced digital mediacourses and advising Masters
and PhD thesis projects
see syllabi and other examples
here
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