Questyinz was an online learning game developed in conjunction with the Allegheny County Library Association and the Idea Foundry, with funding from The Benedum and Grable Foundations. The game engaged K-5 students in reading and exploring various subjects at all of the local libraries (including Carnegie) and most local elementary schools. I was responsible for programming and maintaining the game itself, a multi-platform front-end program for educators to create game content and a MySQL database back-end to manage student and educational game data. The core technologies I deployed in the project were PHP, Javascript, HTML, CSS, Responsive Bootstrap, Flash/Actionscript, iOS(iPad), MySQL and Apache Web Server. Apart from my technical responsibilities I was also integral in the core concepts and designs of the game, and was directly responsible for turning the library associations ideas into working code, meeting with them regularly to ensure quality and precision.The game was expanded to many Pittsburgh schools in 2013, with an app version published for iPads.
