Other Work
Over the course of learning about UI/UX Design, I got to know how to use and develop other forms of media as well!
Game Design
On top of my Major in Interactive Media, I also took a Minor in Game Design. I always loved playing games as well as eventually making my own small games ever since high school! Using the Engine Construct 3, I made several small games, having fun with all the different types of genres and learning the whole way.
UX Design in Game Design
My second semester senior project that was apart of my last year at Bradley University was a Game Design project where I was tasked as one of the few UX Designers. I was apart of the team to help with the latter half of the game development process for a game titled "In Harmony" (which is available now on itch.io!).
This semester showed me more how to work with a large team and how to properly implement my UX experience into an actual video game. We had a team of around 30 or so members all with different roles to help complete this game before semester's end. This was a very different but fun semester to be apart of not only when it came to UX Design but also being around other hard working people all trying to reach the same goal!
OTHER WORK
Marketing Assistant/Designer
During college I was also a part time Marketing Assistant for Martin Creative and Uplevel Tourism! I designed several customer profiles, made countless documents containing competitor research and interviews answers with clients trying to fin their ideal user.
Construct 3 Games
I have two public games on Construct 3's site that anyone is able to play, under my account named Jakes Makes. With one of my games reaching over 219,000 players that have played! I always try to find time to develop more games and hopefully get them completed enough to be able to publish more.
Graphic Design
Working as a Marketing Designer I also had a hand in creating client headers from various logos, as well as creating templates and images for audio interview and podcasts, an anything in between.
With the time I have put into learning Adobe products, FIgma, and Sketch, designing has became apart of how I think about anything!
Sound Design
Helping along side everything else was taking a sound design course, not only because I was interested, but also because it would help bring sound out and improve my games being developed so much more! Working and messing with sound was very entertaining and was definitely an interesting experience.