Isaac Goodin

Vulpine is a charming action exploration game where you play as one of 9 different animals, armed to the teeth. Explore a beautiful world and team up with your friends to take down fearsome monsters!

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Terrain engine in Unity, designed for use in Vulpine, that is capable of generating and meshing 30 sq. km. of game world with GPU instanced assets. Procedurally generates a unique world map, composed of ecological biomes, that control how the terrain topology is generated and what assets are added to the environment.

Biomes can be created without programming knowledge and are designed as a collection of game assets with rulesets for placement in the world.

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Assessment Data Aggregator for Game Environments (ADAGE) is an open-source data collection and analysis framework to transform telemetry data into evidence of learning. Used in over 20+ learning games and scientific research studies looking evidence of learning in video games.

The ADAGE suite is composed of the data standard, client integrations, and ADAGE server.

Data Specification: The data standard provides base structures for how ADAGE integrated games log gameplay data. This gives a common structure to the data that allows generic analysis tools and cross game comparison of data.

ADAGE Server: Ruby on rails application that provides support for logging, retrieving and analyzing data from ADAGE clients.

ADAGE Clients: Collection of ADAGE client implementations in various development environments. Most notably C# for Unity and JS for web.

ADAGE was developed at the Game + Learning + Society Center at the University of Wiscsonsin - Madison with a partnership with The Learning Games Network and the Wisconsin Institutes of Discovery

Editor for adding event callbacks to character animations with timeline scrubbing and key-framing of events. Allows animators to quickly create and adjust animation events from defined event types. This saves incredible amounts of time not having to deal with the typical issues you see with Unity events where method names are typed in as string and events cannot translate to new animations if the model has changes in bone structure.

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Part level editor part game maker. It's a WIP standalone app/game to creates levels, manage art, and export a procedural game with a data driven art pipeline.

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Nested Finite State Machine (FSM) AI Editor for designing complex and reusable AI logic without any programming knowledge. Used as a custom tool for "Vulpine" to create intricate combat logic with dynamic responses to player actions.

The system seamlessly interfaces with the custom Locomotion and Animation Event systems in Vulpine to create state AI actions that can drive any generic NPC in the game. Action Nodes are customizable through inheritance and automatically placed in the editor's action list.

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An immersive game installation at the New York Hall of Science where children use physical blocks to design virtual circuits. Includes an companion mobile app that uses realtime ADAGE gameplay data to identify teachable moments and prompts exhibitors to guide the players.

I optimized the performance of the Oztoc game, provided development support, and implemented the data collection. I also led development of the companion mobile app and worked with learning scientists to determine what metrics and criteria comprise teachable moments

Form more info on Oztoc

Econauts is a real time strategy game that immerses players in a rich environment, making difficult-to-observe ecological phenomena visible in a living landscape that players explore and examine to explain the relationships between choices that humans make and their ecological consequences.

On Econauts I collaborated with educators and academics to implement the official C# Unity library for our "ADAGE" data collection suite while also using the game's development as a testbed to research and develop the ADAGE framework.

This allowed us to make many improvements to the "ADAGE" data collection suite such as:

Virulent is a real-time strategy iPad game that was created to teach systems biology. It builds on learning sciences research on microworld simulations, but embraces game aesthetics by enabling players to interact with viruses, cells, and the immune system.

My work on Virulent was upgrading the legacy version of the game from Unity 4 to Unity 2014 in preparation for a scientific study. Then, advising a team of learning scientists, determined the relevant telemetry metrics to capture and implemented our ADAGE data collection into the game. Also, provided support and consultation throughout the length of the study to guarantee quality of data met scientific standards.