For my primary game team project this year, I will be working once again with the talented folks on Team Irradiance as well as my absolute favorite collaborator, sound designer Justin Jacox. In the playful video below, you may view my producer, Aji Suprana, testing out the movement capabilities of the Emotiv neuro-headset in the team's custom game engine. This is significant in that Aji and the rest of the programming team have worked diligently to integrate the headset's functionality into a game engine that they built from scratch. This is an incredible technological feat and has never been done before by a team at DigiPen Institute of Technology. The headset detects movement and can be pr
Today, as part of my duties and genuine interest as a TA for ENG110, I sat in on Sonia Michaels' lecture about identity. However, calling Sonia's class a "lecture" isn't exactly correct. She works tirelessly to find new ways to engage her students, ranging from positing open-ended, thought-provoking questions to the group to researching and sharing recent TED talks and relevant articles. I have very much enjoyed working as a teaching assistant for her so far; from the very beginning, she made me feel welcome and communicated trust in my abilities to her students, which I greatly appreciate and note as a distinct mark of a skilled and thoughtful mentor. The main focus of her class today was t
I'm starting to believe the theory that the energy you put out into the world comes back to you. Ever since I started my Day Creations, I have felt such joy, wonder, and satisfaction with my days. Suddenly, I care about what I'm doing and perform my tasks on purpose. Suddenly, so many good things are coming my way that I almost need to add a Day Creation checkbox to remind myself to just catch my breath. When this week began, I hadn't signed on to work with any teams at DigiPen. A few folks had asked to meet with me to consult about their intended narrative, but I hadn't been asked to do anything concrete. I generally felt fine about that situation; I have a demanding internship, a narrative
I clumsily named this musing after the 17th episode of Cowboy Bebop because alliteration. But it has been an incredible first week back at DigiPen so far. I'll likely receive internship credit for my Microsoft job, I'm over the moon to be working as a TA for Jeremy Holcomb (GAT212), Sonia Michaels (ENG110 & ENG230), and Ben Ellinger (GAT120), and there are no words for my excitement about my narrative design-centric independent study with the talented Ellen Beeman. I wasn't sure about returning to DigiPen, but I could not possibly be happier with everything that is afoot. So many people around me are full of energy and ideas that are already serving as personal inspiration and motivation. So
