i've been making games since 5th grade. currently, i'm a freshman at university of utah studying software engineering with an emphasis in game design (tl;dr game development but i focus on programming more). in some of my free time, i am also self-teaching myself user interface & user experience design (UI/UX).

why ui? well, i've sure got a monologue for that!

good ui always go unnoticed because it removes the fact that the player has to think about what they're interacting with. therefore, they can focus on what's important: the gameplay, the environment, the story, and all the art that the rest of the development team poured their hearts and souls into. however, bad ui always gets noticed immediately since it blocks the player from seamlessly interacting with the experience.

in many ways, you can think of it like an "important background character". nobody cares about that guy. but secretly under the hood, they're the ones keeping the world from being destroyed. and if that important background character in question can no longer perform that duty, then that's when people notice... oh wow, the world's being torn apart!

obviously, that's quite the stretch, but it's still accurate in a lot of ways. quite frankly, you can build a game all you want. however, ui is still the thing that actually allows the player to interact with whatever you made. without it... well, you're kinda cooked lol

so... what is my dream? well, i want to be that "important background character" to game studios out there. i want to help design and code in UI that players don't complain about. i want to help you achieve that "important background character" thing i've rambled on earlier. because ultimately, your players should be more concerned with whatever the rest of your team made, and not some clunky, illogically-placed buttons on the screen.

contact:

discord is the best way to reach me for informal purposes!
note: DO NOT send a friend request. just message me! i will ignore all friend requests from people i dont know.

you can also email me for more formal reasons

employers/recruiters: are you interested in my skills? please reach out via email!