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Games and projects

A selection of my research games, most of them playable in your browser, plus production work and other projects. I’m still adding more.

Everybody’s War #WW1 cover — a woman with a pickaxe and basket by a WWI trench at sunset
Honorable mention

Everybody’s War #WW1

A classroom game for social studies that puts the First World War in players’ hands rather than on a timeline.

Year
2024
Team
with Grant Ham and Robbie Sieczkowski
ApocalyptiCity cover: a visitor with a lantern on a forest path, looking through binoculars at a red city skyline

ApocalyptiCity

The game from my Istanbul Technical University thesis on gamifying the visitor experience of Istanbul’s Atatürk Urban Forest Park.

Year
2018–2022
Type
ITU MSc thesis

more games waddling in soon…

PRODUCTION · THE STU/DIO

Producing games at the stu/dio

Associate Producer and Quality Assurance Lead at the stu/dio, the University of Illinois student-led game development studio (Director: Dan Cermak), since summer 2025.

stu/dio projects

  • 2026
    Organizer, Global Game Jam site
    University of Illinois Game Studies & Design, with GSD stu/dio
  • 2026
    Co-organizer, AR Hackathon
    GSD stu/dio and Hack4Impact
  • 2025–2026
    Panels on student game production
    MDEV 2025 and 2026, Madison, WI

More projects

  • 2022–2024
    Cooperative Play at the Silk Roads
    Texas Tech MSc thesis game in Unreal Engine, built on a theoretical framework for cooperative play in historic preservation education.
  • 2022–2024
    SILK — Sustainable Information Lifecycle of Kervansaray
    Game and VR Advisor on a U.S. Mission Turkey–funded heritage project (PI: Varinlioğlu; partner: Nagakura, MIT).
  • 2023
    Co-production of Liminal Spaces
    Web-based gamified AR experience, Venice Architecture Biennale 2023, European Cultural Centre.
  • 2023
    Gamified ArchViz with AI
    Unreal Engine R&D at JHP Architecture, Dallas.
  • 2021–2022
    OyuNest
    Co-founder and CEO of a game-design startup at İTÜ ARI Teknokent (TÜBİTAK BIGG-funded).