Park Builder is a park simulator game developed for PBS Kids’ Nature Cat franchise, designed to introduce ecology and seasonal-change concepts to young players. I implemented world navigation, seasonal environment transitions, and A* pathfinding with object avoidance for NPC characters. Player garden layouts were serialized to JSON and persisted via browser cookies.
Kids Media
Date 2015
Company CloudKid
Role Game Programmer
Technologies JavaScript, PIXI.JS, HTML5
Web-based educational games for PBS Kids and Sesame Workshop, teaching STEM concepts, systems thinking, and creative play to ages 4-12.
Park Builder
Client PBS Kids
Measure Up
Client PBS Kids
Measure Up! is an educational web game developed for PBS Kids, designed to introduce measurement and comparison concepts to young players. I programmed a dozen standalone activities and established reusable templates for similarly structured activities, later adopted across other PBS projects.
Muppets Playdates
Client Sesame Workshop
Muppets Playdates is a series of mini-games developed for Sesame Workshop as part of Sesame Street’s “Street View” relaunch, designed to introduce creative play and character-driven storytelling to young players. I built interactive activities including drawing tools, cooking simulations, and character-driven play experiences.
