From a young age, Daniel knew that he wanted to be part of the
creative industry. He made that dream a reality after getting an MFA
from
USC's Interactive Media Division.
Daniel Co-Founded
Crater House
with
Bill Graner
and other alumni of USC's Interactive Media Division. There they
created exciting, uniquely creative apps and intellectual properties
for international brands-including Shaq Sky Slam for Shaquille
O'Neal, and original design and development for The Israel
Antiquities Authority, Tyson Chicken, Kraken Rum, and the California
Indian Museum and Cultural Center.
Daniel currently lives in Tokyo and works for
Indeed
as a Design Technologist. At Indeed he makes high fidelity
interactive prototypes that are used for research. He Also does lots
of production work in between.
Daniel does Interactive Design, UI/UX, and front-end development. He
makes sure products look and feel amazing. He likes making weird and
wacky games with an offbeat sense of humor in his spare time.
R2 Story : A Star Wars VR Fangame. This is a fan project and will not
be distributed. This is just me playing around with Unity3D and an
Oculus DK 2 kit. Lucasfilm and Disney Own the rights to the Star Wars
brand. This is a work in progress.
If you've ever released a game, you've found yourself in a position
where you have to send it off to the gaming press. Maybe you don't
know anyone, maybe you have a couple of contacts - either way, you're
nervous and trying to contact as many people as you can to get the
word out about your game. Cold Email is about that. Except your
computer is also kind of messed up and about to explode.
In Cold Email, you need to fire off emails as fast as you can before
your computer explodes from malware. The send button has a nasty
tendency to wander in the Game Jam title, though, so it may be
difficult to get out all of those necessary emails before your PC
bursts into flames. Do try, though, as your game, and your livelihood,
depends on it.
Project Lead | Game Designer | Programmer | Artist
Type Set is a game about moving a conversation along, literally. The
player physically manipulates the words on screen through touch
gestures. Just like a normal conversation depending on which words you
emphasize it can change the tone and direction of the conversation.
Emphasis is placed on certain words by making them bigger /smaller or
rotating them. In this case, the protagonist is having a phone
conversation with Sarah, his girlfriend's best friend, about why his
relationship with his significant other is ending. So the conversation
changes depending on the way players solve the puzzles ( i.e.
emphasizing certain words to change the tone of the conversation in an
angry or nice way).
For iPad only. Made with Unity 3D. MFA Thesis project.
Spectre is a recombinant narrative platformer, a game that tells the
story of an individual's life. The landscape before you is not a
physical world, but 73 years' worth of Joseph's memory: moments of joy
and fear, light and darkness. As you navigate through his specific
recollections, similarly themed events will glow brightly. If you
succeed in these moments of play and follow a glowing path, you will
find a theme uniting his experience, and uncover a little more of his
fading memory. If not, your nightly story will end in confusion.
Become an archeologist, and use your device to explore Israel’s past!
Dig up the 2,000-year-old Lod Mosaic, and piece together the Dead Sea
Scrolls. A collaboration between Crater House, Maya Cohan Productions,
and the Israel Antiquities Authority!
Interaction Designer | UI/UX | Front - End Programmer
A new extreme sport for your mobile device brought to you by One Spear
Entertainment, Crater House, and the man himself, Shaq!
Get ready for the most over the top extreme sport ever created.
Skydive with a basketball in hand, plunge through the stratosphere at
terminal velocity, grabbing coins and diving through hoops along the
way. Divebomb toward the basketball court below, lock in on your
target, and slam dunk that ball!
World renowned daredevil Robbie Maddison can’t resist a stunt like
this. And he’s sky slamming Maddo style, jumping his bike from the
plane!
Made for iOS / Android. Made with Unity 3D.
Dynamice
Game Designer | Front - End Programmer
Play single or two player, but two player is more fun!
Players take turns running the maze and can see the footprints left by
previous turns. The question to ask: is the other player running
towards the cheese, or leading you into a trap?
Made at the global game jam in 48 hours and won the award for Most
Polished Game at the 2012 San Francisco GGJ site.
Front-End Programmer | Game Designer | Graphic Designer
We wanted to express the beauty and power of nature with simple and
intuitive mechanics, so we put bolts of electric fire at your
fingertips. Of course, nature can also take the form of undead animals
driven to shamble out of the forest by their terrifying hunger.
For iOS. Made with Unity3d.
Rusty Blade: Famicase
Graphic Design
I designed a fake Famicom game for the Famicase Exhibition. It was
displayed at the Meteor Gallery in Tokyo in May 2017.
I was reponsible for graphic design for Journey to the End of the
Night Holloween 2017 in Tokyo. I had to design for web and print.
Including movie posters, and stickers.
Build and play games with your friends! Make a 3D platformer in 10
minutes, or spend hours jamming on the next indie hit. Game Builder is
designed for all skill levels, from players ready to build their first
game to designers looking for a faster way to realize their ideas.
I was responsible for general design and UI/UX for the game. It is
available on Steam Early Access for free.
A job interview VR simulator. Select from multiple job types and
simulate a mock interview in VR. After a quick job skills assement,
users will be interviewed for a job by a vitual job interviewer. The
user speaks to the virtual interviwer and all of their answers are
recorded. There will be an assesment at the end of the interview based
on data that Indeed has collected based on job interviews for that
specific type of job. The user can download the recordings to listsen
to them while not in the VR space. This project was created for a 48
hour internal hackathon at Indeed in 2019.
I was responsible for all design and code for the game. A video of a
playthrough is available.
