Ben Thomas

Discord Bot

Discord Bot I created for Discord Server with friends that tracks game rankings, posts free games, pulls game information, and other fun commands. See README for full list of bot features! Built with discordjs, hosted on Raspberry Pi 4, utilizes a variety of game APIs.

GitHub

Nectar of the Gods

Nectar of the Gods is a an unquenchable multiplayer real-time strategy game where bugs clash over the sweet nectar of sugary beverages. From Beetle Brigade to Spidey Party, you will artfully master strengths and shortcomings to topple boba shops and coffee bars. The game was built with the Unity game engine. I programmed the online functionality using the open source Facepunch C# Steamworks Wrapper. I created the art/animations in Krita open source painting program.

Steam Store Page

Bread Log

Bread Log is my Sourdough Blog. A wheaty harvest of recipe reactions, learnings, reviews and crumb comparisons. Built with Jekyll. Theme Minima. Hosted on GitHub Pages.

Blog | Github

Game Dev Blog

Blog where I share progress and learnings on game development journey.

Blog | Github

GTFS Lab

GTFS LAB is a data exploration project centered around GTFS (General Transit Feed Specification) data. Public transit is a huge passion of mine and I created GTFS Lab to explore the space. The backend is built with Node.js, Expressjs and MongoDB and hosted on Heroku. The frontend is single-page website built with Reactjs, Bootstrap, and Webpack.

Website | Frontend Github | Backend Github

Space Canoe

Space Canoe is a 2D arcade style game written in Java using the LibGDX framework. The player uses the left and right arrows (left and right screen touch on mobile) to paddle the canoe away from the perilous space debris. The goal is to survive as long as possible in order to obtain a high "debris dodged" score. Built with LibGDX tools: Box2D, TexturePacker, and FreeType. Art created with Adobe Photoshop.

Github | itch.io Download | Google Play

Twitch Chatbot

Twitch Disposition is a Twitch IRC Chatbot that performs sentimental analysis in a given Twitch channel. The bot connects to twitch chat through Twitch's Chat API and applies VADER (Valence Aware Dictionary and sEntiment Reasoner), part of the Python "Natural Language Toolkit". The application is presented through "PyQtGraph", a pure-Python graphics library. PyQtGraph leverages the GUI toolkit PyQt5 and the scientific computing package NumPy.

Github

Photography Portfolio

A collection of my favorite photos. I mainly do nature photography. Photography is a hobby that takes you to extraordinary places. It has helped me connect with nature and better appreciate the beauty in a moment.

Flickr

The Queue Podcast

Created weekly gaming podcast with two friends. Managed recording schedule, episode planning documents, audio editing, website, art assets, livestream, and RSS/VOD upload.

Youtube

CCD

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a procedurally generated adventure game where you play as an Oakland bee scouring a flower field. You must maintain honey reserves, navigate randomized encounters, and most importantly produce Queen Bees. Programmed with HTML, JS, CSS. Tools used include Knockout, JQuery, Bootstrap, OpenWeatherMap API, GIMP, and Gulp.

Github | Game

Presskit

A Presskit I created for my games. If you are unfamiliar with a presskit it is a pre-packaged set of promotional materials distributed to the media for promotional use. I built my presskit using presskit.html which is built off of presskit().

Github | Presskit

Unity 2020 2D Starter Kit

I built this "Unity 2020 2D Starter Kit" for Unity developers / jammers to clone and leverage in order to hit the ground running on a 2D game. It contains a simple main menu with several quality of life features:

• New Unity Input System configured for mouse + keyboard + gamepad input and remappable controls
• Player Settings capable of saving preferences for fullscreen/windowed, music volume, effects volume, keyboard mappings, gamepad mappings, and language
• Audio Manager for playing music and sounds
• Localization Manager for seamless switching between languages

Github

Giant Bomb Chrome Extension

This Google Chrome Extension for Giant Bomb and video game fans allows you to right click a highlighted game title in the Google Chrome browser and search that selection in the Giant Bomb Game Wiki. If the highlighted selection matches a game in the wiki database a new window will open on the wiki page for that game. Programmed with JavaScript/JSON. Tools used include JQuery (AJAX), Giant Bomb API, and Chrome Developer API.

Github | Chrome Store

Udacity Front End Web Dev Nanodegree

Neighborhood Map: Google Map API Project - Github

Javascript Created Online Resume: JavaScript Project - Github

Classic Arcade Game: Intelligent Object Design Project - Github

Website Optimization: Optimization Project - Github

JavaScript Tester: RSS Feed Reader: Code Testing Project - Github

Press Space to Wave

"Press SPACE to Wave" was created during the 2017 Global Game Jam at Google Launchpad in San Francisco. The theme for the game jam was "waves". The team was excited about the prospect of waves as a form of communication between humans and thought that a game about propagating human waves would be a fun project. The game that resulted is a 2D top down local multiplayer game written in Java using the LibGDX framework.

Github | itch.io Download | Google Play