A mascot designed for MAGICAL in Gaming, a community of marginalized genders in gaming club alumni. Visual inspirations include magical girl companions and the MAGICAL logo, and the name is a diminutive of "alakazam."

This version I have online is mostly meant to demonstrate my contributions to the frontend and is disconnected from the backend. I designed the game elements, designed and implemented the webpage with vanilla JavaScript, and drew the art assets.

Run it in your browser on this webpage. The frontend display branch can be seen here on GitHub.

My first foray into physical fabrication, in which I learned how to use Adobe Illustrator and wood glue! I'm particularly proud of the detachable hat.

With enough energy, Fizz Buzz can cast spells empowered by adjacent allies. After falling below an energy threshold, Fizz Buzz loses his ability to cast spells (and with it, the hat on his token.)

The gameplay was intended to simulate the positive feedback loop of getting more and more overwhelmed and stressed, but the gameplay didn't accurately reflect that. If I had more time and resources, I would experiment with different materials to make it physically difficult to lift the pieces – my character tokens were too stable and sturdy, and the tokens were far too light.

At least it makes for a cool art piece.

I like making stuff with my hands. Always drawing, currently printmaking (letterpress and risograph!), previously got really into molding air-dry clay Pokémon and making comics. Some of my original character comics can be read here.

I keep making new stuff, so it's hard to keep this section up to date...