Joshua Whittom
Game Designer at Adroit Studios
Columbia, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoshua Whittom is a game designer and writer with a decade of experience crafting educational and interactive experiences, currently designing an educational video game with a cross-disciplinary team at Adroit Studios. With a BA in Game and Interactive Media Design and an MLIS underway, he blends creative design sensibilities with practical library science skills focused on preservation and access. He has hands-on experience translating curricular goals into documented features and assets for developers, artists, and educators, and has taught programming fundamentals to high school students in accelerated settings. Joshua’s background cataloguing music collections and working in library services gives him a unique appreciation for metadata, curation, and long-term preservation of digital and analog media. Based in Columbia, Missouri, he brings a rare combination of game design craft, pedagogical experience, and archival-minded thinking to projects that intersect play and preservation.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Game and Interactive Media Design, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Game and Interactive Media Design at Columbia College ChicagoUniversity of Missouri
Github Skills (15)
mongodb7
playing7
html6
css6
nodejs6
javascript6
vue6
react5
portal3
twitch2
obs2
countdown-timer2
python1
docker1
streaming1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
PurpleNinjaLink/Directed-Study-FA19
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 releases, 24 PRs, 64 pushes in 3 months
PurpleNinjaLink/TileBasedFirstPersonMovement
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Contributions:1 release, 3 commits, 1 push in 1 day
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