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A collection of some of my favourite things that I have uploaded here!

Infographics

Probably my best creative works. There are posters that visualize data in ways to make them more understandable!

The 500 Largest Cities on a Grid
When I started getting into Graphic Design one of the first things I started doing was data-visualization. I found it fascinating to be able to visualize boring sets of numbers into something that’s more digestible and accessible. It’s especially fascinated me when it’s something well known but that most people
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My Grid 500 project. A dot grid where each dot represents a very populous city.

Earth’s Elevations Visualized
I’ll seriously be stretching out the limits of my hosting service with this one.
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A long illustration showing different points of altitude on the Earth to scale.

Frequency of Letters in IATA Airport Codes
Despite all of the things that I have uploaded, I haven’t actually made a data visualization this whole year by my own accord. I’ve had to make quite a few for school projects, but the last one I made completely on my own was right at the end of the
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An infographic showing how common letters are in airport codes.

Video Game Analyses

A more critical look on things from video games!

The Evolving Style of Source Games
I finally got around to purchasing the Left 4 Dead games by Valve recently! Although I haven’t had the chance to play them properly yet, I have spent some time messing around with the maps on GMod and going through their developer commentaries, and I’ve really liked them! I only
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Analyzing how the style of Valve's games evolved from 2004–2013.

Thinking About Left 4 Dead’s Main Menus
Recently I decided to get on with finishing 100%-ing Half-Life 2 (plus its episodes since they are bundled in now), and just today I was in a call with a close friend trying to do just that. Specifically I was getting the Get Some Grub achievement which is the
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Analyzing the design of the main menus of the Left 4 Dead games (plus some other Valve titles.

Silent Hill’s Diverse Save Points
There are loads of games that I am interested in but haven’t had the chance to play myself, whether it’s because they don’t have a style of gameplay I enjoy or because I do not have access to their hardware, and one of the biggest of these for me is
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Analyzing the look of each Silent Hill game's save points and how they add to their story.

Technology and Graphic Design

Analyzing and/or giving my thoughts on technological and graphic design things from all sorts of places!

My Nostalgia for Early 2010s Graphic Design
With the recent reveal of Apple’s new standardized “Liquid Glass” look for their operating systems, it has made me think on their previous eras of graphic design. Apple stated that this is their biggest design overhaul since iOS 7 in 2013, which is a straight-up fact, and that has led
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A small retrospective on the look of Graphic Design before 2013.

More Video Games

More general retrospectives and reviews of video games.

ULTRAKILL First Impressions
Today is July 1st, 2025, officially kicking off the second half of the calendar year! Since the start of the summer I’ve wanted to tackle some entries from my backlog. Now of course, due to the Steam Sale, it is probably one of the worst times to do so, since
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My first impressions of the game ULTRAKILL.

Remembering Dashy Square
In the long long ago there was this game called Geometry Dash. I played it, and I still do sometimes! It is one of the games I have played the most in my life, definitely the game I have played the most in my Steam library by a, frankly, uncomfortable
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A retrospective on an old Geometry Dash-inspired game that I played a lot.

XCOM: Enemy Within First Impressions
For the next game to clear from my backlog this summer, I decided to try a game in a genre that I’ve not been able to get fully into, but still interests me in some way: Turn-Based Strategy. I’ve always been curious about it but ultimately it didn’t fully click
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My first impressions of XCOM: Enemy Within.

Personal Stuff

Miscellaneous things. Generally these are a bit more personal, and so they fit better in their own category, even if they share things in common with others.

Santo Domingo Summer 2025 (Day 2/2)
I’m really starting to think copper is my colour.
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My experience in my most recent speedcubing competition.

Replaying VVVVVV
This is a small post! Just to document a little bit of something I’ve been doing these past few days that I wanna share. (Oh also, saying it now, it’s just pronounced “V”.) There’s this game called VVVVVV which I really love. I got it as a christmas gift from
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My progress in getting some more achievements on VVVVVV.

No, I Will Not Get Some Grub
But I guess I did it anyways.
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My struggles with a specific achievement from Half-Life 2: Episode Two.