Recent Projects
Hey there! Welcome to the site! My name is Jacob Schwitzer and I'm a Native American Game Designer with a B.S. Computer Science and a minor in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin - Stout.
I currently work for Nebraska Public Media as a software developer focused on XR applications. My current project with them is Menominee Homecoming, a narrative-based 3D adventure game that's currently in development. You can look at my previous work for them: Expedition Nebraska, a 2023 Webby Award Official Honoree that's been released for WebGL, Mobile devices, and VR.
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In the past, I've worked with Penn State and the College of Menominee Nation on the Visualizing Forest Futures Project. My role was to help film and edit 360-degree videos, conduct phenology and biodiversity research in the Menominee Reservation Forest, and create a Virtual Reality app in Unity that helps teach the research to non-experts.
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I've also worked on many video games during my college years, one of which being my senior capstone project Shepherd's Sky, a 3D game made where you play as a shepherd who goes looking for his lost sheep. The gameplay consists of floating by a balloon over a canyon to fish your sheep up into the air. My role in this project was as a gameplay programmer, focusing on the fishing, throwing, and targeting mechanics and how they interact with the world. I also worked on the unified controller input scheme. You can download Shepherd's Sky here.
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Shepherd's Sky website: http://ba2.games/
The team behind Shepherd's Sky