Game DeSign Portfolio

nastia.garachtchenko@gmail.com

THE QUADCADE PROJECT

I was a Project Manager, the Lead 3D Artist, and an Asset Behavior Developer on an 8-month collaboration between the University of Maryland Medical Center Shock Trauma Department and the MICA Game Lab.

I worked alongside Marco Cortes for this project.

Baltimore Sun - November 21, 2019 by Sameer Rao “How MICA and Shock Trauma are using virtual reality to help patients cope with spinal cord injuries”

Official Press Release Video

VR Sample Gameplay

MOROZKO

I was the Lead Developer on a small game made in Unity.

Art Assets by Andy Yuan, Level Design and Supplemental Scripting by Korben Dennis.

insert eventual itch.io here * A game by Andy Yuan, Korben Dennis, and Nastia Garachtchenko. Music by Kevin MacLeod.

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TURNING TIDES

Lead Game Designer and Lead Artist on the table top board game, Turning Tides.

Created for the MICA Game Lab.

Free to print and play on Board Game Geek.

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Scripting for Interactions

A small scene I put together in Unity using models I made in Maya 2018, and utilizing VRTK with SteamVR.

GitHub Link to a script that allows a player to play several notes on the Piano in VR. Made in Unity with VRTK.

GitHub Link to a script that uses multidimensional arrays to generate a random letter. Link to game on Itchio.

A unique interactive experience reflecting on the connection of memories to specific objects and feelings.

GitHub Link to a script that was written for Shoshana Schlauderaff’s piece ‘Recollect’ to work with input from reed switches.
This project belongs to Shoshana Schlauderaff.

Link to the curriculum I designed to teach middle schoolers how to code interaction in P5 JavaScript while at the Digital Harbor Foundation in Baltimore, MD.