Hi I'm Zaid!!!
I'm a Data Scientist and Game Developer, love playing games, making games, doing math (🤓), participating in events, and working on projects
I've made a lot of games, mostly during Game Jams in teams, here are some of my favorite ones
One of my first big solo projects, I had a blast recreating my childhood game in Unity.
I made 9 levels, also added my own moving platform mechanic
I learnt a lot, definitely need to re-remake it with better optimization and levels
This was made on my 2nd game jam with my team
After our first game jam we learnt that we had to scale down by 10x 💀
So we made a simple but cute game where you play as a walking tree that's trying to reach his love, but you have to hide from people by turning into a normal tree
Although it was simple it was very polished and people loved it :)
This is probably my 6th game jam, we were a team of just 3 competing against other teams that had 9 people!
Did I mention that we got a mug?
Definitely one of the biggest games I've worked on.
Here are some other big projects I've worked on
For a long time I've tried to make an efficient Sudoku solver in Python, I tried avoiding using a brute force backtracking algorithm for a long time worrying about the speed and performance.
After my C++ final exam, I immediately went home and made a backtracking algorithm in C++ in a few hours and it's fast
You just simply enter the board data on a txt file and the program will read it, solve the board and display the results
I'm planning on making it automated to read a board directly from Sudoku.com and solving it automatically on the website. Just need to get good at web dev and web scraping
Sudoku is also my least favorite game on Earth, I feel like a computer when trying to solve it which does not feel fun.
Back when I used to use a macbook, I noticed that it had a very neat feature where you can change the name of multiple files at once with some nice formatting options too
I wanted to do the same on Windows, so I made one using python. Definitely proud of this one.
Only issue was using tkinter, making GUIs is not fun...
Definitely the hardest project I've worked on, with 0 experience on HTML, CSS and JS, the amount of p and br are annoying
People always try to warn and scare me about JS, but they don't know my main weakness is HTML 💀
I'm currently learning HTML, I just finished the first module about headers, paragraphs and images (IMAGES COMING SOON)
