Gaming Websites & Applications

Dark Naga Adventures
^{Publisher Website}

^{I developed and designed the Dark Naga Adventures publisher website using a custom content management platform I built for them to integrate into their hosting plan. It’s a standard website and was part of a series of contracts that included multiple crowdfunding campaign designs, marketing ad advertising design, as well as content creation and cartography.}

AetherCon Online Gaming Convention
^{Convention Website & Platform}

^{The AetherCon Online Gaming Convention platform was an advanced multi-tiered project that integrated web design with dozens of custom web application including event management, scheduling, integrating multiple streaming video components, account management, and event ticket management. If you’d like to read more about it, there is a section here on the site dedicated to the archiving the project.}

AAW Games Mini-Dungeon Tome
^{Adventure Assistant Website}

^{The Adventure Assistant was a website I created for AAW Games upon the publication of their Mini-Dungeon Tome. The website was dedicated to helping game masters find the perfect adventure for their game session from the massive book. It included advanced search and filtering features as well as extensive details and previews of every adventure.}

AAW Games Mini-Dungeon Zine
^{Adventure Assistant Website}

^{The Mini-Dungeon Monthly Adventure Assistant was a sister website to the original Adventure Assistant for AAW Gamees‘ Mini-Dungeon Monthly Zine. I created it to be themed around the black-and-white print zine and had additional filtering and search features added that were relevant to the zine issues.}

AvatarArt Character Portraits
^{E-commerce Website & Customer Portal}

^{AvatarArt was an online service that created character artwork for customers. The website provided a full support system and portal that allowed the artist and customer to communicate throughout the creation process, escrow the payment, maintain several checks and balances, and enforce policies to assure all parties were satisfied throughout the commission. From 2007-2024 I was the service’s webmaster and web developer.}

Legendary Games Hypercorps 2099
^{Product Line Promotion Website}

^{This website was a fun “mock up” website I designed for Legendary Games which pretended to be the official website of “Jarrikol Industries” one of the fictional corporations found in the Hypercorps 2099 campaign setting. It was a fully functional website that merged actual news with an ongoing plot that unfolded during the crowdfunding campaign.}

Rogue Genius Games Veranthea Codex
^{Product Line Promotion Website}

^{This website I developed as a dynamically populated splat page pulling from RSS to compile announcements related to the Veranthea Codex product line from Rogue Genius Games. It began as a promotional spot before crowdfunding the project, then later as a method of “late pledging” before such features were offered by the various crowdfunding platforms.}

Interactive Adventures for Kids
^{“Choose Your Path” Website & Platform}

^{I originally developed this web platform as a concept for a series being created by Playground Adventures, though I ended up completing the development just for fun when the series was put on hold. It allowed admins to create text adventures for kids using a simple “choose your path” mechanic. The back-end of the website provide easy access to create branches and results.}

Paths to Adventure Blog
^{Google Blogger Website}

^{This website was the predecessor to the website you are currently viewing, but functioned much more like a straightforward blog than a standard website. I custom designed the template and manually coded custom CSS for the Google Blogger platform that it ran on between 2012-2024.}

Justin’s Dungeon Map Generator
^{Web Application}

^{This web app creates a random dungeon map in both flat and isometric view with one click. Entirely unique and generated on the fly. It has options to create Small Maps (4-6 rooms) for one-shots, Large Maps (7-12 Rooms), and X-Large maps (13-19 rooms). Fully customizable with a wide selections of themes and colors. Try it out here!}

Justin’s Tavern Sign Crafter
^{Web Application}

^{This web app allows users to generate graphical tavern signs for their games using a wide selection of themes and styles, colors and fonts. Allows the crafted signs to be printed directly to PDF or export from the app as a PNG file. Try it out here!}

Astra Fauna Random Name Generator
^{Web Application}

^{I developed this random name generator web app for Sarah Dahlinger’s Astra Fauna. It features include the ability to “remix” a generated name, generate a list of names by letter, and the ability to save names to an in-app workbench for reference. Try it out here!}

AAW Games Digital Key Distribution
^{Multiple Web Applications}

^{These secured web application allowed backers to login using their e-mail to view the keys for the digital content distributed by AAW Games from their various kickstarter campaigns. It allowed for a single point of reference for keys and digital assets from multiple unrelated platforms.}

Paths to Adventure: Big Books of Maps
^{Backer Portal & Content Distribution Web Application}

_{After I both my Big Book of Maps kickstarters funded, I designed secure backer portals so that backers could log in, check for updates, see the incremental progress of the project, and download available content whenever they wanted. I left both portals active for a few years before transitioning all backers to DriveThruRPG.com for future downloads.}

AAW Games Map Preview Index
^{Web Application}

^{When the collection of available VTT Map Packs from AAW Games increased beyond a few dozen, a need for a convenient way to browse through the maps in each pack became necessary. I designed this stand alone web application as the solution with a simple backend to be plugged directly into their website.}

AAW Games Dynamic Catalog
^{Web Application + Standalone Application}

^{This app was an interactive product catalog developed for AAW Games. It listed the entire product catalog, extensive details about each, which variations and platforms were available for each, as well as links to the multiple locations the title could be purchased online.}