Code Zephyr - NT based video game player and creator, scroll down and let the breezy Zephyr (gentle breeze) guide you through a journey.
The Big Day In - Presenter and VR Exhibition Stall- May 2024
Over 100 Year 9-12 school students from various schools attended the Big Day In. I presented and held an exhibition stall with VR headsets where students got to play my VR driving safety experience.
Presenting on my journey from high school to software developer
Facilitating in-person VR play with students
I presented at 1:45pm for Big Day In on the content below:
‘Journey Of A Local Software Developer’ - Zephyr Dobson is a Darwin born & raised tough Territorian with a passion for all things tech and gaming. Zephyr’s journey begins from studying a four-year degree of software engineering honours at Charles Darwin University finishing with a research paper on virtual reality then leading to working in various integration projects. In the six years since graduating Casuarina Senior College, Zephyr has worked on a major IT Health system being implemented across many hospitals in the NT, launched his own software company known as Code Zephyr, developed 6 small-scale videogames for local game jams where two of which are in virtual reality, run several in-person virtual reality gaming sessions with youth playing his very own designed videogames & is now responsible for delivering software integrations at CDU. Supporting all things geek in the NT has lead to him being appointed secretary for local NFP “Geek Culture Collective” before delivering TROPiCON 2023 event which was another incredible success for the geek community.
Power and Water’s Bite of Science at CDU Open Day - VR Bus Safety Experience - Aug 2023
School aged students experienced an upgraded version of the bus safety VR game I made for the TrafficJam game jam (see details below).
Road Safety Game Jam (TrafficJAM) - Jun 2022
With the goal to share the importance of bus safety and to improve my VR developing skills I made a 'Bus Safety Experience' for this game jam. This experience includes two scenarios: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uONw9MFW90&ab
Bus Walk Home experience - Players will leave the bus and attempt to walk in front of the bus on the way home and learn that it's dangerous to do so, after which the experience restarts, and they must then walk behind the bus to get home safely.
Protect Bus from Rocks experience - As a pedestrian on the bus you are experiencing what its like to have rocks thrown at the bus while inside, as windows shatter you must repair them by replacing them with new windows.
Clickity Cluck - Play as Cluck Norris and fight robots!
- Left click your way through this mini adventure game.
- Buy new animals from the farmhouse.
- Seize your farm land back!
February - 2023
Lane Defense Wars - May the best maze win!
- 1v1 a friend to build the best maze and win!
- Multiplayer 2 controllers!
September - 2022
NT VR Bus Safety Experience
Two bus experiences:
- Bus Safety Walk, - Bus Danger experience
March - 2022
Present Thrower - Deliver all the presents!
December - 2021
Gold Rush Tower Defence - Build a maze of towers to defend your fortress from opposing rollers
2021
Youtube Videos
Clickity Cluck - Game Jam entry and received 'Best Overall Game'!
Walk home safely and defend your bus!
Reflection on game design projects from 2021
VR Thesis GamePlay Loop
Web Projects
https://github.com/ZephyrGitCode?tab=repositories - All sites are purely developed for learning purposes.
Fuel Log - Simple Fuel Tracking Application. Uses localstorage to store and update the fuel log when new entries are added.
2019
AR Uni - Web application based on the concept of launching augmented reality walking journeys around the university campus, with an arrow pointing you in the direction of a selected building.
2020
CDU Food Ordering - PHP web application for ordering food from CDU campus vendors, hosted by HEROKU and integrated with JAWSDB
2021
CDU Waste Aware - CDU based waste awareness web app for student use. Bin locations and types are modifiable by administrators in a JawsDB. Also HEROKU hosted.
2021
Gallery
2021 - CDU IT Code Fair
Sharing my VR Road Safety Thesis project with Code Fair participants
2020 - CDU IT Code Fair
Speaking with colleage developer on his project
Academic Excellence award
2019 - CDU IT Code Fair
Speaking on my Intersystems internship experience
Sharing on Intersystems internship experience
Academic Excellence award
Logos
Credit: Nodoph
Credit: Nodoph
Credit: Nodoph