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!
games
- Minecraft
- Kentucky Route Zero
- Season
- Sable
- Jusant
music
- Sufjan Stevens
- Dirty Projectors
- San Fermin
- alt-J
- Coldplay
books
- The Fifth Season
- The Paper Menagerie
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Ficciones
- Invisible Cities
movies
- Arrival
- Princess Mononoke
- Summit of the Gods
- Pan's Labyrinth
- Kiki's Delivery Service
tv shows
- Scavengers Reign
- Chernobyl
- The Expanse
- Over the Garden Wall
- Severance
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