VIRTUAL VOYAGER

An emerging game developer with a heart for creating fun interactive experiences.

LIFE

2003 - Present

ABOUT ME

Hey! I’m Jacob and welcome to my portfolio "Red Trigger"!

I recently finished my Bachelor of Screen Arts majoring in Game Development at Massey University and I’m readying to jump headfirst into the game industry within New Zealand.

From a young age I have been surrounded by technology and video games, some of my oldest memories are playing games like Samba de Amigo (with those weird maraca controllers) and Time Crysis on Dreamcast and consequently, games have become a massive part of my life. I’m fascinated by both technology new and old as well as the games industry and any new developments within the space.

My Dad had originally introduced me to programming with the absolute classic Scratch and once I got to high school, building websites (such as this one) and programming started to become second nature.

Going to Massey has allowed me to further develop these web skills but also allowed me to shift my focus to more program-based development. Starting with creating full little apps within Python and messing around with APIs such as the platform formerly known as Twitter’s API to create a bot that needed likes to stay alive.

Now my main programming focus is on game development, with my latest project “Bobbi Bones” being the largest project I’ve ever been a part of, holding an important role within the team as both the technical programmer and in charge of our version control. But that doesn’t mean I don’t find time to work on fun side projects like my Discord bot.

Thanks for checking out my portfolio and make sure to have a look at some of the projects I’ve worked on!

GET IN CONTACT

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