I'm Davin Pavlas, a human factors psychologist and researcher who works on games, play, and learning. If that sounds cool to you, check out my dissertation. Today, I work at Riot Games doing exactly that kind of stuff!
You can find me in all sorts of places online:
I made some Industrial / EBM music drawing on movies where things go wrong in space. (May 2024)
In 2020, I participated in Weekly Beats, making a song a week. Some of those tracks became an album I finished in early 2021. (February 2021)
Preservation was made as part of Dreadzine vol. 2. It's a small game about the end of the world and what comes after that. (October 2017)
Gunpla Strike is a tabletop game you play using model figures such as Gunpla or Frame Arms! This is a very niche concept. Here's the rules and print & play cards! (December 2016)
Crystal Key is a little fortune telling game where you use crystals to summon a helpful, advice-giving demon. Lindsay and I made it as part of the Self-Care Jam! (December 2016)
TS140x uses the Twitter API to turn a tweet into a bullet hell boss. Blow up some bad tweets, because there are many of them. There's also a mac version. (November 2016)
Black Dog, Black Blanket is a game where you try to get Goose, the cute but bad dog, to go to sleep! Can you do it? I bet you can. (April 2015)
Tea Leaves is a Twine game about being young and getting to know the future. It has a bunch of different outcomes based on your choices throughout. It was my first Twine game, and it was a lot of fun to make! (January 2015)
Walking Simulator 2015 (NYC Edition) was made for the RuinJam along with Lindsay Pavlas. It uses Google Street View to pull down continuous images from a walk down 5th Ave. You walk and think thoughts. It has an end, but don't go too fast. (September 2014)
Beat Dodger was an attempt to learn the Unity 2D Toolkit system. It uses the aubio library to read in beat timing data of a song and populate a little bullet-hell style level. It is very difficult and best player with a controller. (January 2014)