Paddle Home Before Dark

Paddle Home Before Dark is an immersive third-person kayaking adventure game that challenges players to navigate a winding river and make it home before nightfall. Designed to provide an authentic kayaking experience, players use intuitive, realistic controls to paddle and steer through a dynamic and ever-changing environment. As the sun begins to set, the river becomes a test of skill and strategy. Players must avoid natural obstacles like jagged rocks and narrow riverbanks, which can bump the kayak and slow their progress. The stakes rise as hungry sharks patrol certain sections of the water. Get too close, and you'll face dire consequences. Every playthrough offers a fresh experience, as the river's paths change, presenting new challenges and encouraging players to experiment with different strategies to discover the fastest and safest way home.

This game was created in Unity as part of a project for my Game Design course in summer 2024, where I worked with four teammates to bring this thrilling adventure game to life.

B1F Junk Shop

B1F Junk Shop is a personal project of mine inspired by the aesthetics of the old net (1990~2010). I feel like social media websites these days offer little to no customization, leaving every person's page feeling like the same bland website. The internet has been a large part of my life for as long as I can remember. My early memories are filled with sitting in the basement on my family's big CRT monitor computer loaded with Windows XP, playing CD-ROM and flash games until the early hours of the night then sneaking upstairs into my room. I wanted to recreate the feeling of those days with this website and have a place that I can experiment with styles and store my work and thoughts about life. I hand-coded this website in HTML over the course of 2023 and 2024.

NAMESAKE

When living in Japan, I was very intrigued by the different junk shops scattered about Akihabara and I absolutely love the things you can find in there. I love old technology, and there is an endless supply of new and interesting things you can find in these stores. One store that stuck out to me - and is the namesake of this website - is the Hard Off on the back street of Akiba, which features a room in the basement filled with junk in blue boxes, stereo and VCR machines lining the back walls, and guitars on the rightmost wall. Lining the walls are posters of the junk shop mascot with "JUNK CORNER", "BUY AND SELL", and "TREASURE HUNT!" written in Japanese in bubbly blue and yellow characters. Things in the blue bins ranged anywhere from old keyboards, wires and connectors, Wii remotes, portable DVD and CD players, camera hardware, monitors, stereos, kitchen utensils, entire computers, and even more. It's a real treasure hunt in there if you can dig through enough.

Japan Junk Journal

This is a "project" I started doing while I was traveling in Japan from December 2022 to March 2023. I was inspired by junk journaling and I wanted to keep as many memories as possible from my first trip to Japan. I thought this was a fun project and I would like to share my keepsakes with the world. This is not a comprehensive collection of every page from my travel diary, since there were some days where I did not collect anything flat I could paste into my journal.

The original journal is now immortalized in the page I created on my Neocities website and you can view it at the link below.

Pwnagotchi

A Pwnagotchi is like a Tamagotchi, but they eat wifi! To be more technical, they are a reinforcement-learning based AI program that "feeds" and learns from the wifi to crack WPA keys and handshakes. They can also deauthenticate devices from wifi networks and associate with those devices to get wifi networks handshakes. Over time, they get better on their own at hacking wifi networks! It is an open source project with a large community of people contributing and hacking together on Reddit and Discord.

My Pwnagotchi is built from a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, 16GB MicroSD Card, Waveshare V4 E-Ink Display HAT, PiSugar 1200 mAh Lithium Battery, and a custom 3D-printed case that glows in the dark.