The work listed here includes only personal projects and not anything I've done as an intern or done while employed by the man. There will be a dedicated page for each of these projects in the future with additional information, history, and an explanation of technologies used.
2011 – PRESENT
Elan
Design and implementation of website website for friend and rising future-beat producer Elan, who was signed by master German techno duo Modeselektor in early 2011. Modeselektor runs their own, independent label called Monkeytown. 100% original Wordpress 3.x theme with full widget support, Adobe Flash jukebox, and design of static pages throughout the site that require detail beyond what a template can handle. AJAX browsing via jquery prevents music interruption between pages. SEO optimization.
Developed with Linux, Apache, MySql, and PHP
Coming Soon
Developing
UCLA Design Media Arts
Coordinated project development and implemented a simple iPhone application that helps visitors explore the UCLA DMA Fall Show 2011 “One, Two, One Two”. Art talent was provided by Anna Reutinger, Jon Gacnik, and my good friend Jesse Chorng, who is on exhibit at the event with his Syntheshredder Skate Bowl. Free.
Completed September 2011
2009 – 2010
Epic Pet Wars
My good friend Amit and I's first and only product under our first start-up, Miraphonic. One of the first generation MMORPG's available on the iPhone/iPod Touch and the first game to span 3 platforms simultaneously (iOS, Facebook, & web) while also offering cross-platform, continuous play to gamers. Boasting over 2 million unique players, 100K+ daily active users (at peak), 80+ adoptable pets, 500+ items, and accessible, turn-based RPG gameplay. Engineering and production by myself and Amit Matani. Character & item design by Michelle Kim. After 4 months of Epic Pet Wars being live, Miraphonic was acquired by ngmoco in August 2009. Free-to-Play.
Game Retired in 2010
All Platforms Live April 2009
2004 – 2008
Makeshift Online
My first serious solo project. A perpetually half-baked "myspace alternative" social network that helped me learn to code PHP at an intermediate level and acquire basic Linux server admin skills from high school through college. Version 1.0 was completed my junior year in high school and I continued to refine the social network into v2.0 in my spare time as a freshman at UC Berkeley. Traffic (relatively) exploded to 40K+ unique members and the single dedicated server ended up failing under the load. I didn't know how to scale to multiple machines, my code was terrible, my SQL queries were horrendous, and I had no money to boot. The experience landed me a sweet internship at Hot or Not during the summer of 2006 and employment for the next 3 years. The social network is still online (7 years!) and used by a select handful of loyalists. Free.
Developed with Linux, Apache, MySql, and PHP
Live Since 2004