Misc stuff

Canva is a creative platform where you can design anything. You can design anything at Canva com. Anything at all. The only limit is yourself. Welcome to Zonvocom…

I built many things here, from frontend to backend, pages and webapps, and more!

Worked on Google Maps, specifically Maps for Android Auto and Automotive. In short, Maps for cars.

Cars are… unique, as a computer hardware, requiring different user interaction paradigms. Rotary dials, dangerous touchscreens, and wonky screen sizes.

Convene is a collaborative platform. One of its main components is a real-time collaborative document reviewing tool where you can make annotations, comments, sticky notes, and drawings on documents with other users.

I worked on the Android app where we implemented real-time chat, touch gestures for multi-user drawing, and other features.

I created interactive, procedurally animated Internet ads in Flash for clients who wanted to advertise (i.e., annoy users) on the information superhighway™.

Indirectly contributed to the rise of ad-blockers.

I created interactive, animated Powerpoint presentations about biochemsitry for some learning institute whose name I’ve already forgotten.

I’ve spent countless hours of my childhood playing this game and tinkering with its modding features.

The game has a built-in mod framework with its own C-like scripting language called C4Script (It has pointers!). It was my first programming experience!

I started by making custom levels and scenarios. Then moved on to tweaking, adding behavior to existing objects, making too many bomb variants. The most fun I had was when I reached the point where I could design and implement my own magic spells and particle effects! I even tried to make AI enemy characters.

I believe that this game played a big part in shaping who I am today.

Well, as a kid, I’ve always played computer games. In my quest for new games, I found Notessimo through the Flash game portal Kongregate. It’s a simple easy-to-use music composition software, similar to the music maker part of the SNES game Mario Paint.

I then found out that the game had an official website notessimo.net which was just a phpBB forum back then. The forum community around the game were very encouraging and helpful which really helped me develop this music interest.

Before long, I was producing song after song and eventually got a song featured on the home page!

I eventually moved to a “real” DAW, but I will always remember fondly the Flash game Notessimo.