V Quidore

A hodgepodge collage...

Games, games, games!

In 2023, I worked as the staff assistant intern for the Wilson Center Science and Technology Innovation Program's Serious Games Initiative, which strives to communicate critical science and technology issues through game design. I conducted academic research and translated that work into engaging narrative elements and game mechanics. I was fortunate to be part of the teams that made the following games:

Title image of The Plastic Pipeline game featuring its cartoon animal characters,
including Sydney the environmental activist dog.
The image highlights the Plastic Pipeline's the 2024 Games For Change Best Environmental Impact Award,
as well as its selection as one of the 2024 Defense Simulation Education & Training games.
The image includes a game description, which reads:
follow the trail of the life cycle of single-use plastics,
and uncover policies that can unplug pollution leaking into our oceans.

Title image of Launching Into Orbit: A Spotlight On Satellites interactive featuring a drawing of earth from outer space
surrounded by orbiting satellites. The interactive description reads, 66 years after the first satellite,
Sputnik One, was successfully launched into orbit by the Soviet Union,
the impact of satellites is more integrated into our lives than ever before.
Here we will take you on five layers of orbit we use for satellites and other space bodies to answer the core questions:
what do we put into space and why do we put it where it is?

Title image of AI's Anatomy game featuring the character Hal,
a friendly, gray cartoon robot that helps players sort patients and learn about racial bias and AI.

Image of the introductory walkthrough for the Navigating Neural Networks interactive,
which teaches users how to adjust the interactive neural network visualization in question.
The adjustable neural network visualization is comprised of data samples,
which are photos of blueberry muffins and dogs, as well as three layers of nodes, an input layer,
a hidden layer, and an output layer, connected by bluish lines that represent weights.

Conversation Vibrations

My partner and I created Conversation Vibrations with for our term project in COSC 29.06/129: Digital Tangible User Interfaces. It started with the question, how can we blur the boundaries between our voices and visual art? For this project, I coded the generative digital art in Processing, and I used Autodesk to rapidly prototype custom parts for the Arduino motors, which powered the kinetic art board.

Encoded WDCR

Encoded WDCR is a digital art installation coded in HTML, CSS, and JavaScript that examines the meaning of space and emotions in the preservation of a broadcast organization's memory.