simeon poulin

I am back in the NYC from a whirlwind trip to China. Three weeks in Beijing, One week in Shanghai and two nights in Hangzhou. It was amazing, but it’s good to be home.

Here are two projects that I took part in while in China.

Here I am embarrassing myself to raise awareness for Bike safety in Beijing China.

So. The first year in the CDT department at Parsons is winding down. It has been an amazing year. I am pretty excited about undertaking the thesis process next year. In the meantime…

I’m going to China! The department is taking about 60 students to Beijing for three weeks to work with Tsinghua University on several exciting projects. I have been helping to plan out two different games to be played while we are there. One of which is a Dragon Hunt in the forbidden city. We will conduct a photo hunt of the various dragons that have an integral part of traditional Chinese architecture. I am really looking forward to this!

I will be posting more posts and pics about this as the trip continues.

Today I am helping out with a Project here at Parsons CDT called Wakatta! It is a two-day brainstorming session for members of the educational organizations in New York City. They utilize design methodologies to prototype new products that can be used to shift educational methods to less traditional methods. Read more here.

The project was initiated by Colleen Macklin and PetLab here at Parsons. It has been an exciting experience. I will post more soon!

I had a session last Friday to paper prototype some of the game mechanics of the game I am developing as my final project for my Interactive Major Studio.

The game is based on the real life experiences of a CIA agent working abroad in the 70’s and 80’s. The goal of the game is for two teams of three people to compete for pieces intelligence. These pieces are unlocked by deciphering a combination of online and on-site clues give the locations of the intelligence.

Here is a video of the prototyping process.

Working with fellow students at Parsons CDT department to develop my espionage game.

I am developing a Big Urban/Alternate Reality Game for a final project. The game is inspired by many conversations I have had with a retired CIA Agent who worked in the 70’s and 80’s in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. The game is based on the Trade Craft of Intelligence Agents working in that era.

We had our first player-test yesterday in Union Square. Here are some pics.

A piece of intelligence planted in the Park

A Player locating a piece of intelligence

Counter Intelligence

Parsons Fashion School is having a benefit.

I was able to work with some very talented students to help design and develop the site for the event. I helped Art Direct the project with Leanne Wagner. I also designed the background video.

The site is not live yet. But,
here is a link to the Development space.

Here are my initial comps.

Index Page

This is a kick ass bike shop that is fixin to get a new website.

Here is the initial design. It is in-progress.

All Right! We have the test page live. Here is a screenshot and link to the test. Once the clients get some content in there, we will move it over to the root folder. Stay tuned.

Nokia held a Game Jam at Parsons last weekend.

I teamed up with Grace Salem to develop an interactive game that runs on the Nokia N60. We came up with Alien Abduction. A Game that takes place on the streets of NYC. There are two teams, an Alien Team and a Human Team. They are competing for “victims”. Either trying to save them or abduct them accordingly. Here is a rough prototype in Flash and the PPT that lays out the details.

Alien Abduction Flash

Alien Abduction Presentation

Working with Bruce Drummond and Chuck Yust to design the first draft of the Wakatta! site. A new networking site we’re building for educational institutions. Due to go live on Wednesday(!)

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