Matthew Hagaman

Web Design/Development Portfolio

A game. Net Zero Neighborhood Game appears along the right side of the page. On the left is a large image of a home and a woman standing in front of it. Text reads: My name is Erika. Welcome to your new home!

Net Zero Neighborhood Game (2025)

The game lets players take charge of a neighborhood energy project! Goals include meeting the neighbors, reducing the cul-de-sac's energy use, and helping the neighbors add renewable power in the form of solar panels or a wind turbine.

 

The mobile version appears as an inset over the desktop version of the Plants v. Profits game web site. The top of the page is a large logo of money exploding from a pile of produce in front of a blue sky. The bottom of the page is brown earth with a short description of the game and buttons to Print Planning & Profit Sheets, Access Instructions or the Facilitator's Guide, and Randomize Events for Advanced Gameplay.

Plants v. Profits Game Resources (2024)

The board game Plants v. Profits (Grow, Profit, Win!) can be downloaded and printed, or advanced players can access a randomized event generator to supplement the game.

 

The mobile version of the Entertainment Emporium calculator appears as an inset over the desktop version of the web site's main menu.

Entertainment Emporium Game Calculator (2022)

Players of the physical board game Entertainment Emporium (Buying Energy, Building an Empire) will appreciate this calculator designed to check or do game math from a mobile device. The game completed play testing and was distributed regionally in July-December 2022.

 


Teacher training appears on the right side of a fully-functional game, with teacher questions appearing by game challenge, complete with colorful icons and staff responses to teacher questions.

Just-In-Time Teacher Training for the Virtual Grid Construction Game (2021)

As educators play the Virtual Grid Construction Game (which lets players build a city, see the role of smart meters, and automate switching/load balancing), this asynchronous teacher training enables teachers to ask and find answers to questions they have about content, functionality, and pedagogy. FAQ-style questions and answers are presented at the point in the game where they were asked, but educators can also search the database of questions and answers or ask new questions, which can then be added to the experience for other educators.

 

Controls appear for a smart home, with living room controls expaned. Options include living room light color, television channel control, live video from the television and a rainbow-colored button to begin the living room light show. Whole home, kitchen, and garage controls are collapsed but expandable. The right side features an animated status of each room.

Virtual Smart Home (2020)

The Smart Grid for Schools program at Illinois State University ships physical smart home interactives to K-12 schools around the state. This tablet-based experience was published to the web with a new virtual home interface in support of e-Learning during the spring of 2020.

 

The mobile version appears inset over the desktop version of the Tech Chains Web site. Buttons appear at the top: select a tech or about this project. The main portion of the page includes a tagline (innovations of tomorrow link to technologies of yesteryear) and a list of technologies to select, beginning with battery, bottle cap, clock, and DC electric motor.

Tech Chains (2019)

Many present-day innovations are new combinations of older technologies. This educational resource is designed to help students understand chains of technology and the role simpler machines have in more complex ones.

 

The Pekin Academy of Fine Arts web site has elegant top and bottom banners with white on black while a grayscale sketch of a teddy bear, city, and aliens provides contrast in the center. In the foreground are brightly colored icons on grey boxes: about us, calendar, donate, register, contact, and location.

Pekin Academy of Fine Arts (2017)

The Pekin Academy of Fine Arts offered art classes and artist exhibitions to the greater Peoria community. This site, launched at the start of 2017, was simple and user-friendly with a hint of elegance. The web application I built to manage class registration and communication with stakeholders was accessible through the Registration and Calendar pages.

 


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