A gif of the robot game.

Developing An Arcade Game About Robots

During college I was initially focusing on an emphasis in web-based game development alongside programming. For that purpose, I created several games in JavaScript.

This game simulates the 2018 FIRST Robotics Competition game. The goal of this game is to pickup yellow cubes and place or throw them on the blue side of one of several seesaws. While there are more cubes on your side of the seesaws, you get +1 points per second. There is an opponent that will attempt to place cubes on their side of the goals. You have 60 seconds to score more points than your opponent.

It can be played in any modern browser here: https://pycee.github.io/Firebears-Power_Up

An image of a guitar-shaped game controller

Mapping Out a Guitar Controller

The Rock Band guitar-controller is a form of Human Interface Device (HID). Many USB game controllers follow an HID-compliant standard. This standard allows us to read digital and analog inputs easily from any program.

My past work with this guitar-shaped controller was back in 2014 when I drove a robot around using the buttons on this controller.