Ong Yit Sin's Portfolio

She just returned from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Boston where she spent 9 weeks developing a game for the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab.

Her career interests include concluding her experience in Quality Assurance and pursuing a career in Game Design-specifically, involving the creative writing aspects of games.

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MooPoot

CONTRAST WINNER: Most Entertaining Game

Role: Designer/QA

Contrast is a 24hour Game Design Competition.

The game had to address 2 themes: 'the environment', and 'big and small.'

Moopoot addresses those themes by showing the underlying Ozone Layer issue through casual game play. The Ozone cannot be regenerated, this is reflected in the game as there is no winning condition due to infinite play. The theme of big and small is shown in the Cows and City, as well as the underlying implication that the Ozone problem is only growing bigger over time as the Ozone gets smaller.

Moopoot was developed using GameMaker, Gimp, Paint.net, 24 hours and lots of Redbull.

I worked in a team of 5: 2 programmers, 2 artists and myself. 80% of us were from the Picopoke development team.

I was also in charge of audio for this project.

-Writing the Game Design Document.
-Paper Prototyping.
-Creating/Finding Audio Assets.
-Technical Testing and Freeplay to balance game play.
-Collating data from informal external testing.
-Organization of final assets and build.

Game Design Document: http://www.jessedeke.com/portfolio/2008moopoot/gdd.html
MooPoot Final Build: http://www.jessedeke.com/portfolio/2008moopoot/MooPoot.exe

Picopoke

Role: QA Lead

This game was developed to address the research question of developing a game which can be played simultaneously in two different locations and time zones through the use of Mobile Phones and the Facebook Platform.

We were given 8 weeks to complete this project in a team of 7. The game was developed using SCRUM Methodology.

Picopoke's beta release is live on Facebook:
http://apps.new.facebook.com/picopoke

-Used Fogbugz for Feature Tracking, Bug Tracking and Regression Testing.
-Created Test Plans as QA Lead.
-Created and used Checklists for Technical and Release Testing.
-Tested game play, game design and game balance through Free Play.
-Managed and organized focus groups for game play, UI and technical testing.
-Created and tested Release builds.

Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab: http://gambit.mit.edu/credits/developers.php
Picopoke: http://apps.new.facebook.com/picopoke

National University of Singapore: Game Design (August 2007-November 2007)

Breath Taking

Role: Content and Assets

I worked in a group of 4 for this project. Over the course of around 6 weeks, we were tasked with designing, prototyping, playtesting, creating and finally presenting a computer game.

The game was made with Gamemaker. The focus of study was to introduce the design process of creating games rather than develop technical skills.

The graphics for the game are all 2D and made in Adobe Photoshop 7.0.

Responsibilities as Content and Assets:

-Created asset and UI graphics for gameplay.
-Sourced for non-copyrighted sound effects and background music for the game.
-Designed visual aspects of the game: made sure the metaphor of the game fit with the game design.
-Created the promotional poster and actual CD product of the game.

Chain of Command

Role: Producer/QA

We were given around 6 weeks to complete this project in groups of 4. This project was a Board Game design.

Responsibilities as Producer/QA:

-Organized and scheduled meetings.
-Ensured game design was within project requirements.
-Submitted Game Design Documents and other related documentation before deadlines.
-Organized and analyzed external play tests.

(March 2008-Present)

The inspiration came mostly from my feelings about leaving that community...

(January 2001-2002)

These 2 pages are parts of a story I have been writing since secondary school.

This particular story is more fantasy-medieval themed.

I didn't write them in order. There are a couple more parts in hardcopy in a book somewhere (which I can't seem to find at the moment =X) but these are the ones I managed to find in my harddrive.

I don't think I'll ever finish this story as, to be honest, I raid in World of Warcraft and it's been my main hobby for a long time now. Also, this was written in a time when I was more naive and willing to believe in happily ever afters...

They were written in my Pre-LOTR days when I particularly liked that genre during to several Tamora Pierce series.

Role: Co-Founder

One of the founders of the website. Currently, serving as an adviser to active staff members rather than holding an active position.

www.I-Petz.com

Responsibilities:

-Developed the initial concept of website.
-Implemented initial, and revised, site designs and content.
-Organizes and coordinates duties of other staff members.

My own personal website, primarily for personal use. Initial concept was to provide graphic tools for web-users.

www.JesseDeke.com