Little Shop of Horrors

Going through my stuff, I rediscovered this game that I made as a group project in graduate school. The game was based off of the musical Little Shop of Horrors and we used a quirky 2D, top-down, Legend of Zelda point of view for all of the levels.

In the game, the player interacts as Seymore, the nerdy flower boy who discovers a blood guzzling alien flower that he uses to impress his one true love, Audrey. The player must follow the "Horrors" storyline while keeping both Seymore and his plant's blood/health meters high enough to stay alive. This results in some morally questionable behavior on Seymore's part as the plant requires progressively larger amounts of blood to survive.

The game featured several levels which were easily navigable by walking the Skid Row street level as shown above. These levels are generally places where Seymore can gather sources of blood for his plant. The levels pictured below are (from Right to Left) the Mad Dentist's office, the Animal Testing Lab, and the Old Cat Lady's House.


Seymore is able to collect an inventory of flowers, tools and food sources for his plant from the different levels of the game. The picture to the left of Seymore at a blood bank shows the player collecting a blood bag from the blood bank level. The blood bag is automatically placed in the player's inventory. This inventory is conveniently labeled "Stuff". The blood can then be taken by Seymore back to his flower shop where he can feed his plant. Once back at the shop, Seymore can go back to his bedroom where the player can save his progress and inventory.

There is also humorous dialog between Seymore and the game's characters which guides the player through the game. These characters may inadvertently suggest that Seymore could steal a cat, kidnap a lab monkey or even kill Audrey's crazy boyfriend dentist to feed his plant. But if these same characters catch Seymore in the act, they will send him straight back to his bedroom in the flower shop with a reduction in health.

The game was an absolute blast to help make and it is hilarious to play. The game play is very quick and Seymore can move really fast around game levels, making sure things never get dull. In addition to the bizarre plot and weird characters, the player gets to hear the insanely catchy tunes from the musical throughout each level of the game.

Web Sites in Production

New Mexico Office of Border Health Homepage and Flyout Menus

This is a website I am creating for the New Mexico Office of Border Health(OBH). The OBH has no website currently in existence and the larger New Mexico Dept. of Health(DOH) is looking to revise it's current web site.

New Mexico Dept. of Health Drop Down Menu

The page I created has a banner at the top which is meant to refer to the main DOH organization. The user can navigate back to the DOH homepage from anywhere on the site by pressing the button/logo at the upper left. The user can also navigate to a DOH-specific link using the drop down menus as shown above.

Menu for the OBH contains a homepage logo/button and flyaway menus

When the user is browsing an office or bureau within the larger DOH entity such as the Office of Border Health, that office's logo and links will appear within the left column of the site. The office logo will also act as a button to the office's homepage and the left column may contain a flyaway menu as shown above.


The Promotora page above is a subdivision of the OBH which is a subdivision of the Public Health Division which is one of several divisions of the DOH. I organized the website so that the user can navigate the entire DOH through hierarchy of divisions. This is done by the blue "stackers" found in the left gray column. The current division being viewed is noted by the top blue stacker found beneath the division logo/button. This stacker is labeled as active by a white arrow pointing outward. Higher divisions can be navigated to by clicking on the stackers located below the current division's menu. These stackers are not active and are labeled with a downwards white arrow. By using these stackers, the user can navigate the entire heirarchy of the New Mexico Dept of Health.

The site was made to be expandable to any monitor size and was written using simple html, CSS, and some Javascript.

The site's content and information needs to be fully provided by the DOH before it can be posted to the web.

Batman Shots

Here's some test shots from a 3D animation I made. You can see some of my previous work on it here and here. Hopefully, I'll be able to post the finished animation soon.

Got Shots? Immunization Flier

This is a flier that I created for several locations around New Mexico.