Don't Run With Scissors is an infinite runner game that uses an alternative controller: a giant pair of scissors! The project was an IGF Alt.Ctrl Award Finalist and was exhibited at GDC Festival of Gaming 2026. I am developing the game with eight other students, three developers and five designers. The game is being developed using Unity for software development and Arduino for hardware (the controller). I used out of the box thinking to help construct an oversized controller that makes a more traditional game format feel unique. I led the development of two key gameplay features – the scoring system and the countdown timer– from the ideation phase through technical implementation and playtesting. Both features went through multiple iterations. We held bimonthly playtesting events to hear from our players and improve the game based on their feedback.

The VIP Program engages both undergraduate and graduate students in faculty-led multidisciplinary project teams. echoes is a credit-bearing student-led, student-run project at Rochester Institute of Technology exploring how developing and playing games can cultivate shared understanding and foster meaningful connections. As part of the web development team, I collaborated with other students using agile production methods to develop and maintain the echoes website, which promotes and hosts student-created games. I completed tasks which were organized and assigned via GitHub Taskboard. I contributed code to the site's pages using Svelte, Tailwind, and NodeJS.

The goal of this project was to create an interactive and informative experience at the Rochester Memorial Art Gallery's Centennial Sculpture Park. The Scultpure Park is a free to access public space where just about anyone can come to see fine art. I worked as part of a team with 3 other students to develop the project. After looking into the park more and visiting it for ourselves, we found that most of the information about the park's sculptures was hidden away on the MAG's website, and unlikely to be found by anyone walking around the park. So, we decided to make that information quickly and easily accessible via AR objects that when clicked or tapped open up a UI that shows information about the sculptures that can typically only be found on the website. The project's code uses location tracking to give users information about nearby sculptures, which can be accessed via red boxes that appear next to the appropriate sculpture. By doing this, we hoped to make the park more interactive and engaging by providing a unique way to learn more about these sculptures.

I made this game for RIT's Interactive Design and Problem Solving course. I built off of a game project I had developed in an earlier course, with more robust graphics and code functionality this time. I was able to implement more features that I had wanted to include originally but due to time constraints and my coding knowledge were outside the scope of the project. The game was made using Javascript and HTML as well as a JS library called PIXI.js which supports browser game development. In the game, the player controls a diver collecting plastic in the ocean. The objective is to collect as much plastic as you can within a minute. You can move the divers with your mouse. Moving the diver over a piece of trash automatically collects the trash and adds to your score based on the type of trash. You get more points for collecting plastic trash.