Projects

A classroom-tested learning arcade

Most of these games are played together as a learning arcade I built, so my students can choose practice instead of being assigned it. Each game started as a real classroom problem, became a playable loop, and got better because I tested it with my own students and watched what broke.

Launchpad Mission 001

A story-driven arcade mission to Planet Nubia.

Captain Evers carries the last unbroken message that can save Planet Nubia. Launchpad Mission 001 turns that journey into a fast, replayable arcade shooter with sector challenges, power-ups, transmissions, and ten distinct guardians.

Arcade game
Canvas
JavaScript
Playable demo

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Overview: A complete browser arcade game built as a self-contained playable experience. Players steer a courier ship through escalating formations, collect weapon upgrades, chase score multipliers, and uncover the mission through incoming transmissions.
The design challenge: Make a one-button shooter feel deep without making it difficult to enter. Automatic fire keeps the controls immediate, while enemy behaviors, boss patterns, rare power-ups, and risk-reward scoring create room for mastery.
Game loop: Steer -> clear formations -> chain kills -> collect upgrades -> defeat a guardian -> receive the next transmission.
Role: Game design, visual direction, narrative design, sound design, and front-end engineering.

Logic Puzzles

A reasoning game for computational thinking.

Students get a grid, a handful of clues, and one nagging question: what has to be true? They eliminate, test, and revise until the puzzle cracks — the same step-by-step thinking that coding demands.

React
TypeScript
Next.js
Classroom-tested

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Overview: A grid-based reasoning game where students read clues, rule out wrong answers, and revise until the puzzle is solved. It builds the step-by-step thinking coding depends on — conditionals, debugging, narrowing a search — before students ever touch syntax.
The learning problem: Plenty of students can answer a recall question. Far fewer can slow down, hold several conditions in mind at once, and reason step by step. Logic Puzzles gives them a place to practice exactly that.
Learning loop: Read clue -> make inference -> eliminate options -> test answer -> revise.
Role: Design, engineering, and classroom testing with elementary, middle, and high school students.

Word Compounds

A vocabulary game for pattern recognition.

The students who need word practice most are usually the ones most tired of worksheets. Word Compounds turns compound words and word parts into a fast loop they'll actually run again.

Vocabulary
Pattern recognition
React
Classroom-tested

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Overview: An interactive vocabulary game for recognizing compound words, word parts, and language patterns through fast, repeatable play. It makes vocabulary practice feel like a challenge instead of a worksheet.
The learning problem: Students who struggle with reading usually need more repetition — but repetition gets boring and disconnected from progress. Word Compounds turns it into a loop students come back to without dreading it, helping them see language as something they can take apart and rebuild.
Learning loop: See word parts -> recognize pattern -> make match -> receive feedback -> keep playing.
Role: Design, engineering, and classroom testing with elementary, middle, and high school students.

Save That Ship

A ship-sinking review game with rising stakes.

Wrong answers sink the ship, piece by piece. Review stops being something students endure and becomes a race to stay afloat — every answer carries weight, one question at a time.

Review game
Whole-class play
React
Classroom-tested

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Overview: A review game for practicing terms, concepts, idioms, and definitions, where wrong answers sink the ship piece by piece — so students are racing to keep it afloat. Built to run on a projector for whole-class review.
The learning problem: Review is necessary and usually passive. Nothing gives students a reason to care about any single answer. Save That Ship supplies the missing stakes — a wrong answer has a visible cost, which keeps the room locked in.
Learning loop: Answer question -> ship holds or sinks -> receive feedback -> try again.
Role: Design, engineering, and classroom testing with elementary, middle, and high school students.

Riddle Me This

A daily challenge for close reading and inference.

A riddle punishes the student who skims and rewards the one who slows down. Each daily puzzle is a small, low-stakes reason to reread and question the obvious answer.

Close reading
Inference
Daily challenge
Classroom-tested

Overview: A short-form reasoning game built around daily riddles and timed thinking challenges. Students read closely, work through the clues, and learn to doubt their first answer.
The learning problem: Many students rush through text and miss what matters. A riddle gives them a built-in reason to slow down, reread, and hunt for meaning hiding in plain sight — a habit that pays off in reading, writing, and any problem worth solving.
Learning loop: Read riddle -> notice clues -> test answer -> rethink assumptions -> explain reasoning.
Role: Design, engineering, and classroom testing with elementary, middle, and high school students.

Mastery Garden

A system that makes student progress visible.

Mastery Garden is the larger system the arcade games feed into: students complete skill-based quests, get feedback, and grow virtual crops as they improve. It's built to make progress something students can see.

Mastery system
Feedback loops
React
In development

Overview: Mastery Garden is the larger system the arcade games feed into: students complete skill-based quests, get feedback, and grow virtual crops as they improve. It's built to make progress something students can see.
The learning problem: Some students need a lot of repeated practice — and for them, it can feel like a sentence. Mastery Garden reframes it as growth: students see what they're working on, what they've finished, and what they're getting better at over time.
Learning loop: Plant skill -> complete quest -> receive feedback -> grow crop -> show mastery.
Role: Design, engineering, and classroom testing. Built with React, TypeScript, and Next.js.

Launchpad Learning

Project-based lessons and digital creativity.

Launchpad Learning is where I design project-based lessons, learning games, and digital creativity work for my students.

Coding
Game design
AI literacy
Project-based learning

Overview: Launchpad Learning is where I design project-based lessons, learning games, and digital creativity work for my students. It's how I test ideas directly in the classroom and turn what students need into tools that help them build, gain confidence, and think more clearly.
Focus areas: Coding, game design, animation, AI literacy, digital creativity, reading and reasoning, and project-based learning.
Core belief: Students learn best when they build with what they learn.
Learning loop: Learn. Build. Become.

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My goal is not to make school look like a game. It is to make practice feel like it is going somewhere.

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