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Hackathon 2025
This year, my game development student organization teamed up with several of the school’s others to collaborate on the Hackathon- a 24-hour “cyber” event. I say “cyber” because there was two sections- a capture the flag section and a software jam section. I coined the term software jam- it essentially just means a game jam,…
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Sky Die
MAGD488. The culmination of the Media Arts and Game Development program at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater. This team projects class throws its students in a realistic game studio scenario- the entire class is tasked on working together to create a game. I’ve heard tales about this class since my Freshman year, and I couldn’t wait…
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Volume Control
Volume Control was made as part of the Crossplay game jam, a collaborative effort between the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and Bradley University. Honestly, I was a bit all over the place for this game jam. With a semester-long project for the student organization and Theory of Algorithms homework to worry about, I didn’t think that…
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Zobjects
Did you know that Balatro wasn’t made in a game engine? It was made with the LÖVE framework, which uses the Lua programming language. I’ve never used Lua before, but it reminds me a lot of Python (no semicolons). I thought I’d give the whole framework thing a try, and set aside Unity for a…
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Creating a Custom WordPress Block
The standard WordPress blocks are great- all the essentials for one’s website needs. In case there isn’t something that they want, they can just install one of thousands of available plugins. I want to make my own plugin. I’ve been playing a lot of Balatro lately, and I feel that it would be cool to…
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Secret Santa Jam 2024
It’s that time of year again! I’m sure you’re familiar with Secret Santa, but just in case, it’s an activity that takes place around the holiday season in which participants are assigned someone to get a gift for. Participants don’t know who is their gifter, and it’s always a fun surprise to see what your…
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How to Send Over Data When You Can’t Send Over Data
Although the Twitch Dungeon Game needs no introduction, allow me to remind you of one of its core features: level creation. Viewers of the player’s livestream are able to create levels within Twitch using a Twitch extension (no external resources required!). Upon a viewer completing a level’s creation, the viewer will send over their level…
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Siren
This summer was a summer of music for me. I went to various concerts, music festivals, etc. all to get the most enjoyment possible out of my last school summer vacation. During that time, however, I kept trying to find nearby events that correlated with my music tastes. A lot of websites were okay, but…
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Car Car Saves Christmas
I am president of my university’s game development student organization. This past weekend, we hosted a 48-hour game jam with the theme of “Against All Odds.” To be completely honest, I had a game idea before going into the game jam: Car Car Saves Christmas. One of the very first video games series that I…
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M+DEV 2024
What a blast! Running a booth was as fun as ever, but before we get into M+DEV, let’s talk about the problem with S’no Problem. In my previous blog post, I exclaimed about how excited I was for adding bug fixes, Halloween-themed levels, etc. etc. However, when my good pal and roommate Ian Cooper play…