My Name is Mason Conner and I have recently graduated from ASTATE Jonesboro with a B.A in Computer Science and I am now looking for a great career. Programming, software engineering, and game design are my primary focus and I am very passionate about my work.
Current and Completed Projects
Project Name: Smart Meshes
Status: Partially Completed
Languages: C++, C#
Team Size: Solo Development
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Asset Creation: Blender, Photoshop
Details:
This project was for my final in the Artificial Intelligence course at Astate. Although I met all expectations for the final I plan to do much more with this project. By Applying AI techniques with rendering algorithms I am able to reduce graphic rendering complexity and draw calls ultimately reducing GPU performance requirements. It is still in somewhat of an early stage but I believe it may be a great option for procedurally generated assets.
My presentation paper for Smart Meshes: drive.google.com/file/d/1o8WjI_PatdubBdkS3-DHFsabgNvhvPjI/view?usp=sharing
Project Name: Untitled Beer Pong App
Status: In Progress
Languages: C++, C#
Team Size: Solo Development
Engine: Unreal Engine 4
Asset Creation: Blender, Photoshop
Details:
My most recent project I am working on. I wanted to challenge myself to develop a cross-platform multiplayer application. I chose a beer pong game in light of recent events due to COVID 19 with intent to bring the fun of the sport to everyone stuck at home. It utilizes the touch screen and swipe controls to aim and shoot on mobile with future updates bringing in multiplayer support, UI, and tilt controls. Hopefully the project will grow enough to also add support for VR and possible AR integration.
Project Name: The Twitter Project
Status: Completed
Languages: Python, MySQL
Team Size: 3
Position: Backend
Details:
For a keystone course I was partnered with 2 other classmates to finish a partially started project that was capable of collecting Tweets from Twitter based on a time frame, keyword, and/or hashtag and then perform analysis on the data to be presented to the user. My position was backend and I handled the Python scripting to pull the Tweets from the database after a search. I also provided all of the code for searching and sorting the Tweet data to be sent to the UI.
Some of my example source code: docs.google.com/document/d/1XHKUxAirKhyLrHDfBluZMPbahAk3DhW3yfoZI9kChZE/edit?usp=sharing
Project Name: ShapePop
Status: Partially Completed
Languages: C#
Team Size: Solo Development
Engine: Unity
Asset Creation: GIMP
Current Platform: Android
Details:
A few years into my degree I decided to look into Engines and game developement. As a side project to expand my knowledge and skills I created an Android Game called ShapePop. Although I have yet to fully complete it I did make a beta release APK before putting hold to the project. The idea is simple. Keep the ball on the screen without it falling through the bottom of the floor. It will bounce around and the user can swipe to shoot the ball in any direction to pop bubbles. Each swipe increases the balls movement speed and each bubble generates a score while reducing the speed.
Project Name: Health and Nutrition Database
Status: Completed
Languages: postgreSQL
Team Size: Solo Development
Details:
This project was for my final in the Database Astate course. I chose to create a simple database for nutritional values for ingredients, store user data, and recipes. I met all the requirements for the final but I would like to revisit this in the future and possibly use for backend for a smartphone based application.
Final PDF for course with source code examples: drive.google.com/file/d/1qW_c65AUXFgTTkqS3PDnM1GcTq3UXE0t/view?usp=sharing
Notable Mentions:
I have also collaborated on a full stack development project with 3 other members, have many python, c++, and c# source code examples for varying functions, classes, ect, and have work through codecademy courses. I have also developed a simple graphics rendering porgram and UI using bitmaps.