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hi, i'm drew

I’m a designer and developer who loves making playful interactive experiences. If that career doesn’t work out, I’d love to learn how to design playgrounds. I graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a BA in New Media Design and a minor in Game Design. I worked at Moody’s Analytics as a UI/UX design intern and at Feral Cat Den as a creative intern on the game Nirvana Noir. I am also the visual lead on the award-winning indie game, Pelican Post, and have worked at various other places doing freelance web design, game design, and graphic design work. In my free time, I enjoy rock climbing, reading, going to the gym, playing and making games, and drawing.

my favorites

I play, watch, read, and listen to a lot of things. Here are some of my favorites!

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games

  • Minecraft
  • Kentucky Route Zero
  • Season
  • Sable
  • Jusant
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music

  • Sufjan Stevens
  • Dirty Projectors
  • San Fermin
  • alt-J
  • Coldplay
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books

  • The Fifth Season
  • The Paper Menagerie
  • Stories of Your Life and Others
  • Ficciones
  • Invisible Cities
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movies

  • Arrival
  • Princess Mononoke
  • Summit of the Gods
  • Pan's Labyrinth
  • Kiki's Delivery Service
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tv shows

  • Scavengers Reign
  • Chernobyl
  • The Expanse
  • Over the Garden Wall
  • Severance
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podcasts

  • Friends at the Table
  • 99% Invisible
  • Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games
  • The Silt Verses
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed

about the site

I built this site from scratch using HTML, CSS, JS, and PHP. The interactive planets and satellites were made using p5.js. Try messing around and see what secrets you can find!


© 2024 by Drew Genel

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