Posts Tagged ‘nick lewis’
In fall 2010, I worked as a producer and audio director on a video game project called Galactic Shadow Shooter at the Centre for Digital Media. The game is an HTML5 arcade-action title our seven-person team created for Microsoft Game Studios. I helped build and fill the game's official site, and was charged with aligning our biweekly deliverables with the client's vision via documenting an ongoing Vision Document and Project Charter. As an audio director, I was responsible for creating and implementing all the sound effects and soundtracks related to the project, using GarageBand '11, Adobe Soundbooth CS5 and Audacity. Unfortunately, the game is not available for public play. You can read a production diary I wrote at the game's official site. Also below is a trailer I created for the game using iMovie '11. Galactic Shadow Shooter - Trailer from Nick Lewis on Vimeo. And gameplay video, courtesy...
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Between my second and third semesters at the Centre For Digital Media (summer 2010) I interned for a freelance game designer in Vancouver, BC. I helped write and design a Game Design Document for the sequel to a popular hidden object game for a major video game publisher. This title is under NDA. The delivered GDD served as a living guide for designers, artists and programmers on the European development team as they began creating the game over the following three months. The GDD, also under NDA, was 15,000 words over 77 pages, and written and designed in four weeks.
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Published in The Calgary Herald, Saskatoon Star Phoenix and National Post on March 15, 2009. CALGARY — The 2009 Tim Horton’s Brier was the best-attended curling event in the history of Calgary, surpassing previous highs set at Briers in 1997 and then 2002. As 12,929 curling fans took in the action for Sunday’s national men’s championship final between Alberta’s Kevin Martin and Jeff Stoughton of Manitoba, the total number of attendees over the 10 days jumped to 246,126. That bettered the previous mark set in 2002 when 245,296 fans turned out, and is now the third-best attended Brier on record. “It was a good event, a good week all around,” said Ian Henderson, chairman of the Calgary host committee. “And it’s been good for the sport of curling in Calgary. After 2002, we saw an uptick in participation in junior curling and recreational curling in the city. And this time...
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Captain's log. Stardate 140206. I am. Not. Repeat, not.
Boldly. Going where. No man has gone before.
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From 2006 to 2009, I appeared on four seasons (96 episodes) of a pop culture TV show called Whatever Happened To? The show is still on air. I also appeared on four episodes of the show Biography. Below are some highlights of my professional TV career. Nick Lewis TV Reel from Nick Lewis on Vimeo.
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By Nick Lewis Published in The Ottawa Citizen on November 10, 2008 I hadn't seen my girlfriend in two months, not since she began a four-month backpacking trip through Central America. What better place to reunite, we thought, than on our own tropical island in the Caribbean? I flew into La Ceiba, Honduras, where I met my girlfriend, who travelled to La Cieba via Guatemala. From this sleepy city we took a one-hour ferry out to the island of Utila, known among backpackers for the cheapest scuba diving on the continent. There, we were picked up by an affable, laid-back gentleman with a lilting Creole accent who would take us to Sandy Cay island. "We've had this place in our family since the '30s," Barry Jackson said in his cheerful sing-song manner over the sputtering of the boat engine. "And we been renting it out since the '70s to people...
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Published in The Calgary Herald on July 22, 2009 When it opens in fall 2010, the University of Calgary's new Taylor Family Digital Library will be the most technologically advanced student library in Canada, marrying traditional resources such as printed books and periodicals with modern media, including digital video, e-books and touch-screen information kiosks. Touring the unfinished site on Tuesday, federal Industry Minister Tony Clement marvelled at it and all it could offer the next generation of university students. "Clearly, the University of Calgary is moving to the next level and is ready for the 21st century, not only for its students, but for the brain gain of our country," Clement said. Once complete, the library will be 265,000 square feet, will stand six storeys, boast 260 kilometres of data cable and, according to U of C head librarian Tom Hickerson, will see daily traffic from 12,000 students and non-students....
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Published in The Calgary Herald on June 30, 2009 CALGARY – We fit? Well, somewhat, but most of us live a fairly sedentary lifestyle. And so with the new trend of exergaming –the genre of fitness video games–kinesiologists in Calgary see an opportunity to get kids twitching more than just their thumbs. Canada’s first Exergaming Research Centre was unveiled Thursday in hopes of having an impact on youth fitness and even dealing with the growing incidence of child obesity in Canada. It is located at Calgary’s Foundations for the Future Academy southwest campus, in a collaboration between the University of Calgary and Mount Royal College. “Our hope is to try to connect exergaming to the acquisition of fundamental movement skills,” said lead researcher Dwayne Sheehan, a professor at MRC and a PhD student at the U of C. “Can we develop skills like balance? Laterality? Reaction time? Agility? If we...
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