Mar 2020 - Present
Terry Nguyen
- @terrehbyte
- Game Programmer and Educator
- Seattle, WA, USA
- he/him
Resume
View allAug 2014 - Present
Game Programming Instructor, Academy of Interactive Entertainment
Feb 2022 - Present
Board Member, IGDA Seattle
Aug 2016 - May 2019
Lead Programmer, Vextar Dev Team
Portfolio
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New Blog: terrehbyte.com I started my first blogpost on Wordpress, detailing my experience with some new tools I picked up after reading Lifehacker. The tool in particular was Soluto, which was sup...
Teacher Appreciation Week AIE celebrated Teacher Appreciation Week by sharing my beaming smile at iFEST 2018
Principal Programmer @ ??? I joined a team working on an unannounced project as their Principal Programmer. The project was initially planned as an open-world action platformer for release on PC.
Game Programming Instructor @ AIE I became the full-time and lead instructor for the Game Programming department at AIE Seattle!
🎉 Events
Global Game Jam 2018 at Pacific Science Center In collaboration with Pacific Science Center (the venue and host) and Seattle Indies (local industry group), we organized a GGJ18 jam site in Seattle....
Vextar at SBDHH We brought Vextar to Seattle's Best Damn Happy Hour, an indoor beer garden featuring beer (ofc), tabletop games, and local partners in the Seattle Center area. We had a blast inviti...
Vextar at PAX West We set up a table with four computers connected on a LAN and invited people to playtest our game! Whether they had played Ricochet (its spiritual predecessor) or not, it was grea...
⚙️ Things I’ve worked on
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awesome-ue4 I started a list of resources and plugins for Unreal Engine 4 that provided valuable learning materials or provided substantial additions to the engine. This is modeled after other list...
Released a game demo of ??? The public release for this project was released with fixes based on feedback from testing provided by paid supporters and internal testers.
Defender of Seattle I contributed additional programming to Defender of Seattle, a VR action game created for Make-a-Wish AK/WA, a collaboration between AIE Seattle and Virtual Worlds Society. My w...
ADGP Handbook v1 Jon Collins and I worked as co-instructors. Over the course of the year, we worked week after week writing supplemental course content to support our students at AIE Seattle. The A...
💬 Speaking engagements
AIE Production Showcases - Seattle Campus To build a better sense of community (and preserve the quality of the work from our budding Game Artists), I began using YouTube Live to bring student prod...
Game Development Career Night: Level Up Your Resume Skills I spoke on a panel moderated by Bilgem Cakir on the matter of preparing and applying to different job positions in the gaming industry. Se...
✏️ Blogs and posts
Show-Off: PBT Notion v2 by biip I was asked to share some footage of some keycaps I bought, so a video was made to do exactly that! This is my first edited TikTok video that took some time (and lea...
awesome-devblogs I maintain a personal and public list of devblogs (specifically around game development) that I find to be high-quality and worth emulating as a student. This was originally devise...
Forked monkeyWzr/hugo-theme-cactus A personal fork of a port of the Cactus (originally a Hexo theme by probberechts) was created to style terrehbyte.com based on my needs. This added the following:...
Migrated terrehbyte.com from Jekyll to Hugo I was getting tired of setting up Ruby on Windows as well as the abysmally long rebuild times, so it was time to move on. Of all the new static-site gene...