My name is Hazel McKendrick, and I’m a Computer Games Technology student at the University of Abertay in Dundee, Scotland.
As you can probably tell from my chosen field of study, my key interests are software development and video games. This includes developing games in 3d and 2d for various platforms such as the Playstation 2, Gameboy Advance and PC, both alone and as part of a team. In particular, I enjoy studying and gaining experience with object-oriented programming approaches and design patterns, agile programming and methodologies, as well as less abstract technical topics such as 3d graphics, mathematics and lower level programming. Generally, I just like solving interesting problems, and within the domain of computer science and games there are a an awful lot of problems I find interesting.
If you’d like to see more about the sort of programming work I do, you can check out my portfolio of games and demos.
I also maintain a journal about programming, my projects, and games in general. Whilst some of the older posts were aimed too much towards social media and attracting readers and as such are of little value, I now try to use the space to reflect on the work I’m doing, share the experience I’m gaining and seek advice from other programmers. Writing helps me to improve when I make mistakes or reflect on a project I’ve completed, improving my programming and work in general. I also hope that it will provide some insight into what my university course is like, for anyone interested.
If you want to get in touch, feel free to email me or get in touch online or simple leave me a comment here.
You’re a neat person, Hazel.
Lol.
–ahandicap
Ehm… thanks. You’re pretty cool yourself
Well, I try
Hahaha.
man hazel I wish i could do the things you do.
Why can’t you? Most of the stuff I do isn’t expensive to get started if you have access to a computer.
cheers for the comment
ur sites looking awesome btw 
added it to my linkies
Thanks
Linking to you as well
You have very interesting projects (such as Mew) which I hope to try out in the next few weeks when work isn’t so demanding. Awesome design for your 20th birthday cake.
Thanks Gavin, I certainly find them interesting
If you try anything out, please let me know what you think. I’ve already handed in most of them as coursework but I’d love to work on refining them further.
Hi Hazel, saw you subsricbed to my youtube and just wanted to say that your doing a great job! My regards to Henry and the gang (if your still at uni that is
).
I work at Travellers Tales now, best known for the lego games, you should apply sometime. Theres always some openings kicking around.
All the best.
Hey,
Thanks, your stuff on youtube is awesome. Taking part in Dare this summer, and then I’ve got another year at Abertay to go.
I’m a fan of your work.
Hi Hazel. Hope you guys have had a chance to have a rest since Protoplay, you guys did really well. Hope you guys get that .exe working so I can play it again
Good luck with your final year!
Trying to relax – but there’s always more to work on.
Kieran found the problem with our installer, so we should have a working copy of the game online shortly.
Good luck