Community Projects

How I've gotten involved in the community

Shanty Jam Level 3

Organizer and Adviser

In conjunction with a number of students and professors, I organized a public 48-hour game jam at UAH on August 31, 2018. During the jam, I helped students with issues they ran into over the course of the weekend.

Honors Game Jam 2017

Organizer and Adviser

I organized a 48-hour game jam at UAH with four other Honors students on November 10, 2017. In preparation, we taught three crash courses in art, sound, and programming (see below). During the jam, I helped students with issues they ran into over the course of the weekend. I also ran the itch.io page that collected the games.

Honors Mentor

UAH Honors College

I walked with a small handful of freshmen through their first year of college, helping them succeed in classes, guiding them in interacting with peers, and directing them to the resources they needed when they needed help.
This is a huge passion of mine. I love how personal mentoring truly is. It's an experience like no other, and I feel I made a real difference in each mentee's life. I was a mentor from Summer 2016 through Spring 2019.
Pictured is my whole mentee family - I have great great grandmentees!

HGJ17 Crash Course - Intro to GameMaker: Studio

Top-Down Coin Collector Presentation

To prepare zero-experience students for the Honors Game Jam 2017, I presented a follow-along crash course on making a small game in GameMaker: Studio on October 22, 2017. I spent one hour teaching fundamentals for a simple top-down game, then I held a thirty-minute optional session afterward on expanding the game. Download the game here!

Nashville Game Developers Presentation

Top-Down Shooter Walkthrough

I walked through programming a top-down zombie shooter game in GameMaker:Studio in an hour-long presentation to Nashville Game Developers on August 25, 2014 to demonstrate its power and speed.