Jackson VanVuren

Projects

Wiz Royale Game

Spring 2019

Github

Unity Battle Royale Game

• • Small-scale Battle Royale game developed in Unity using Unity Networking
• • Awarded Best Multiplayer Game
• • Worked in an Agile, 2 week sprint environment in a 3 perosn group, releasing a PoC, Alpha, Beta, and Final version.
• • Learned C#, Unity, game development strategies and techniques, and practiced working in sprints.

Mixel

Fall 2018

Github

Web-based Picture/Music Player

• • Import a picture to be played as music, or draw on a canvas.
• • Developed using React and Redux, hosted on Google's Firebase.
• • Worked in a group environment using Software Engineering techniques, including QA and testing.
• • Learned QA techniques, efficient testing, and Redux.

Twtbot Detector

Winter 2019

Github

Bot Detector and Rater for Twitter Accounts

• • Simply type in a username and receive a rating 1-10 on how likely the account is to be a bot.
• • Developed using python-twitter, Twitter's API, and TensorFlow.
• • Uses python-twitter and Twitter API to train a neural network using TensorFlow.
• • Learned how to use neural networks and how Twitter's rate limiting makes training a neural network difficult.

Address Book

Fall 2018

Github

Web-based Address Book

• • Used Google Firebase database and functions to create a basic address book
• • Address book using React as the front-end and Google Firebase as the back-end.
• • Developed in a group environment with Software Engineering techniques.
• • Learned React, QA techniques, and using Firebase (noSQL) as a back-end.

330Chat

Winter 2018

Github

C++ Chat Application

• • Basic chat app using QT for C++ and hosting on a TCP server
• • Has custom emotes and sending and sharing files
• • Learned networking and file sharing