Ryan
Software and
Game Developer
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NatHack 2025 - Cranking 90 Hour Work Shifts in the Hackathon of All Time
NatHack 2025 at the University of Alberta is an annual hackathon focused on hardware-oriented projects in Neuroscience, Medicine, Education, and the environment. This year, I got to compete over 4 full days of prototyping, developing, and pitching Focus Tree, by our team of 5, AttentionSpan.Ai. This...
Nov 16, 2025
Journey to the East(ern Canada) - Halifax
Across all the cities I've visited and the wonders that I saw, I had substantially underestimated Halifax. Being the last city on my trip, I had done all the planning but focused most of my attention on Ontario and Quebec. Coming from the small towns in New Brunswick and Prince Edward Island, gettin...
Jun 28, 2025
Journey to the East(ern Canada) - Prince Edward Island
While my stay in Moncton was as bare-bones as it gets, my next four nights would take me to the charming little island of Prince Edward Island, PEI for short. Most people tend to overlook this province (alongside the northern provinces and perhaps Newfoundland). Yet, this small community is where I ...
Jun 24, 2025
NatHack 2025
2025
NatHack 2025 at the University of Alberta is an annual hackathon focused on hardware-oriented projects in Neuroscience, Medicine, Education, and the Environment. This year, I got to compete over 4 full days of prototyping, developing, and pitching Focus Garden, by our team of 5, AttentionSpan.Ai. Th...
Doubt's Horizon
2025
In my third year of university, I attempted the introduction class to game design and development (Cmput 250). In addition to learning about technical and game fundamentals, the final project was a short yet complete video game produced by a team of six. Currently hosted on itch.io, our final game, ...