Nick Duckwiler
Nick is a self-taught programmer, educator, and artist. He is a senior curriculum developer at Codecademy, where he's written courses on test-driven development, Mongoose, Express, JavaScript, C#, Amazon Alexa skills, SQL, and programming as a career. He's also worked as a technical consultant at EY. He draws, plays music, and designs interactive and gaming experiences - check out some of his pieces here.
Stretch Dreams
An endless series of sphincters. Like drawing on a piece of paper, this is an attempt at modeling three-dimensional space with two-dimensional forms. Built with d3.js. Explore it here.
Scurve
A survival video game inspired by vampire mythology and naval medicine, written in Lua using the LÖVE framework. Download it here.
Filmed Messages
A technical analysis of cinematic techniques in the 2006 video game Dead Rising. Read it here.
friendTrend
A study in progress to represent the correlation between Twitter friends and followers for a given keyword. Built using d3.js.
tileClick
A Lua utility app to build, save, and load tile maps. Used in the development of the game Scurve. Get the source code here.
Reach
colored pencil on recycled brown paper, 2015
Teapot
pencil on paper, 2014
The Heat Ray, Explained
3D animation and rendering in Autodesk Maya, 2015
View the full video here
Self-Motivation
ink pen on paper, 2017
