While working as a freelance developer at Süperfad’s Seattle office, I helped create the web application ‘Find Your Match’ for Toyota. Built in Actionscript 3, this applications allows customers to narrow down their search for the right Toyota by selecting the features most important to them. You can find the live version [HERE].

While working at Fly Communications, I coded two games for Scholastic’s ‘Fire Safety Zone’. These games, presented in classrooms, help teach young children about fire safety and fire precaution. Both Fairy Tale Trivia and Sound Swap were coded in Actionscript 3.

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Signal is my thesis project at Parsons The New School for Design during my Masters in Fine Arts in Design and Technology. Signal is a two-dimensional non-combat adventure game that focuses on the importance of communication. Staged in space, you play as an astronaut armed only with the ability to send out a radio signal. This signal will give the player the ability to navigate, manipulate, and interact with the environment in meaningful ways. As the player moves through levels, they must use their signaling ability to save other lost space travelers and solve puzzles in the hopes rectifying past wrongs and finding their way back home.

Team Signal:
Joe Laquinte
Alejandro Ghersi
Ricky Bryant
Ben Norskov
Luis Domingo

A fun little project where I worked with interaction artist Haeyoung Kim, noise artist Bryant Davis, and animator Luis Domingo to hack a Super Mario Bros. rom to make our own take on this legendary game. What came out was Nippon Ninja Bros., a game where you run through the level dodging kunais and shurikens. I contributed programming and art assets. We even got to write the game onto an original NES cartridge, so now you can play Nippon Ninja Bros. on the NES. Awesome!

During the project I worked with game educator Colleen Macklin as a pixel artist, creating art for the games. You can read more about Activate! [here], see Activate! in action [here], and visit the site [here].

Side B is a collection of works from several independent cartoonist speaking on how music can touch and effect out lives. Small press publisher Poseur Ink who produced the book included my story titled ‘Mommy Likes Michael Bolton’. Side B can be found at many independent and mainstream comics book stores. You can read my contribution to the anthology below.

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I’m Dreaming? is a digital dynamic narrative system (Flash and Flixel) that enables and promotes players to explore their current surroundings while performing various tasks in a modern office building and in a fantastical castle. I’m Dreaming? was a collaboraive work between myself and fellow MFA candidate Eric Chung. Eric did the game design and I did the art. The project was inspired by its creators own experiences in the corporate world and the dreams that they had while photocopying documents, fetching coffee, and twiddling their thumbs.

Fall asleep or try to stay awake, players will discover the truth and reasoning behind our intentions to dream and how those dreams are heavily influenced by norms and stereotypes in society by exploring the dynamic system. This game was submitted to the 2010 Indiecade competition.
[Contribution: initial design, art]

[Play Game]

[Defunct Development Blog]

Below are some of the materials that were presented in the workshop…

Intro to Flex

Slides on Object Oriented Programming