About Me

Hi! My name is Harrison Gardner. I'm 23 years old and have recently graduated from WGU with a bachelor's degree in software development. I have been interested in programming ever since I was little. I wanted to be able to make games, like the ones I was playing at the time, and learning to program was the best way to get started. I have since found that not only do I enjoy making games, but I just enjoy programming in general. Every project I work on brings new opportunities to learn and overcome interesting challenges. I hope one day to be making interesting software that can inspire others to also learn how to program.

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NPC Quest

NPC Quest is a small game made over the course of 48 hours for the GMTK Game Jam 2023. I placed in the top 16% of all 6,818 submissions. While not the greatest game ever made, this game jam was a chance for me to apply the knowledge I had been gaining from all of my previous projects. I am incredibly happy with the amount of work I was able to complete in just 48 hours and the overall quality of the game. The scope of the game was a bit too large for a comfortable development experience, but I believe small projects will still help me better plan future projects, both big and small.

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GO! GO! Hamster Chef!

"GO! GO! Hamster Chef!" is a game created for the "Spring N64 Style Graphics Jam #2" game jam on itch.io that, at the time of writing this, has 23.7K downloads. The game was created in collaboration with 6 other talented developer. The original version was made over the course of about a month and a half and took first place in the game jam. This has been one of my favorite projects I have worked on. The excitement that collaboration brought during development was incredible. Everyday meant seeing the incredible things others were working on, as well as getting to show other what I was creating. I loved being able to talk with others about issues I was running into or helping out others with the issues they were encountering. Working together to solve various issues helped me grow rapidly as a developer and I enjoyed every minute of it. This project has sparked further collaboration with some of the members of the team on current and future projects as well as a potential company built around the success of this project.

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The Sorrow of Silk

The Sorrow of Silk is an atmospheric, 3D platformer game, created in two weeks for Buddy Up Jam: Winter 2023 (theme: "Soft") and ranked 3rd. This project was the first time I had collaborated with complete strangers. It was an exciting experience learning how the ebb and flow of a brand new team worked and how to get acclimated to that. Not only did this project help me to further solidfy my knowledge of Unity and C#, but it also introduced me to new tools to help me plan out my projects, such as Notion. This project showed me how much I enjoy collaboration and has made me seek that out more and more.

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This Site

My portfolio website has been a good opportunity to refresh my knowledge on working with HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP. I find it very enjoyable to work on the full range of a website, from the looks to creating the database behind it.

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Warming Woods

Warming woods is a game made in Unity for a 72 hour game jam. It placed 11th out of 115 entries. For this game jam I kept the scope smaller and focused on building out a much more polished project. Having ample time for ensuring everything worked well made both the experience and final project better.

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