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Elliot Busch

Projects

Here are a few projects I've worked on lately. You can also find a couple others on my GitHub here. There are a few other projects on there that I'm unfortunately not able to open-source but you can tell by my commit history that I'm pretty active.

False Impetus

This is the six-year video game project I've mentioned on some of the other pages here. It's created using GameMaker and the inbuilt GML language, but I also use Python for some other parts of it.

I'm spearheading a small team of five other freelancers from all around the world. Together we speak at least five languages and occasionally deal with some language barriers, but we've always been able to find ways to communicate.

The game is projected to be finished in around four years and released on Steam. Below are some screenshots of it in its current state.

False Impetus is created entirely without the use of generative AI.

A grassy environment with a forest background.

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Paycom LMS Gamification Project

I built this project during my summer internship at Paycom. I was placed in a group of eight interns and we worked on a project involving adding gamification elements such as leaderboards and daily challenges to their otherwise-dry learning module system. Our tech stack was React for our frontend, ASP.NET C# for our backend, and MySQL for our database.

We were able to successfully complete a production version of our full-stack project by the end of the summer and we volunteered to be the first group to present.

Of 160 interns, I was the very first person to speak. Nerve-wracking as it may have been at the time, it might've been a blessing in retrospect since the organizers were still arriving and conveniently weren't able to grill us for details at the end. I guess sometimes it pays to go first.

Daily Notes App

This is one I wrote for fun in college that I wanted to include here because I'm still pretty proud of it. It was an app for my phone that was written in Dart/Flutter and allowed you to take a note every day.

I was just starting out learning Japanese at the time so I also included a feature that let me take a separate Japanese note each day too. I even included a daily message and rotating themes.

I'd love to open-source it one day but I'd have to finish a couple of other things about it first.