Thank you for visitting this page. I am a game programming instructor at the Technology Center of DuPage in Addison, IL. Below you will find some of the many projects I have completed or have in development. I can be reached via email at evanw@tcdupage.org.

My Games and Educational Technology Projects

• Porting Lance Micklus' 1978 "Treasure Hunt" from TRS-80 BASIC to C
• Hunt the Wumpus cartridge for TRS-80 Color Computer

    (The very cool stickers that shipped with the cartridge)

• Attended Kansasfest, 2018. Here was my HackFest entry
• Altair Clone and TRS-80 games for Retr0Challenge 2018

    (My display at CoCoFest 2018...also, why is my wallet on the table?)

• My notes for ZX-Spectrum tool chain, presented at VCF-MW 2017
• An example of terrain generation using the midpoint displacement method in GameMaker
• Presented at Kansas Fest, 2017 and I received a brief mention in this Tech Republic article
• Presentation of CoCo Cartridge Development at VCF-MW 11
• OSI-300 Replica Project
Building and programming a small 6502 powered SBC.
• Hunting the Wumpus on the ZX81
Creating an assembly language game for the ZX81 and putting it on tape!
• Virtual Roman Forum, 203 AD
  

  A program for the PC which allows students to explore the Roman Forum circa 203 AD, and learn about its buildings by interacting with characters in it. (right: the title screen)

• I was honored to hear my name dropped on episode 113 of the EdGamer Podcast.
  Was this for anything having to do with educational gaming? Alas, no.
  
• Collapse of Rome 235-476 AD
  

  A PC based game I have written in which the player controls the Roman Empire during its crisis of the third century and beyond. Intended for use as a classroom station during a unit on the Roman Empire.

• Triangle Trader
  

  A web based program which allows students to explore transatlantic trade during the colonial period by sailing a ship between ports, buying and selling various commodities at each stop. Now also available as an iPhone/iPad app from iTunes. (right: students playing Triangle Trader on a Promethean Board)

• Star Campaign
  A game I wrote for the Palm Pilot several years ago and recently ported to iPhone. The Palm Pilot version is still available from download.com in the Palm section.
• TACT (Text Adventure Creation Tool)
  TACT is an easy to use, web-based tool teachers and students can use to create works of historical interactive-fiction.
• Civil War Board Game
  

  An extemporaneous board game I created to help students learn about the advantages and disadvantages faced by the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War. (Left: A student and I testing out various rules)

• Home arcade machine project
• Shays' Rebellion Activity
  

  An activity in which students gathered information Shays' Rebellion of 1786-1787. The information was added to an interactive webpage, which enabled students to ask Daniel Shays questions about himself.

• Jeopardy!
  

  A Jeopardy style video game I created for use in the classroom. While there are many implementations of this type of game, mine features randomized sounds effects from the Simpsons TV show.

• Vector Tanks
  A 3D tank game similar to Battlezone which I wrote in C++ and demonstrated on career day at Lindop Middle School.
• Peripheral Empires
  A shareware space-strategy game I wrote for the Macintosh way back in 1997. This game was reviewed by Inside Mac Games Magazine on its website, and was distributed by the Software of the Month Club