Jesse Himmelstein

Developer, game designer, researcher, teacher & entrepreneur

Welcome to my personal website.
You’ll find occasional blog posts, links to my projects, and talks that I found valuable.

  • Although it took quite a bit more effort, I’m glad to say that JC and I managed to update Dog Eat Duck with two major enhancements – animations and sound. Both make a big difference, and made me realize once…

  •  Time: on and off over 4 weeks Team: Me, Ben Wertheimer, Julia Himmelstein, Jean-Christophe Letraublon Link: funkyfunkygames.com/dead/about/ Another project for  Runaway Parade. This time the theme was “decoy”, and Ben and I decided to make a Django web app to…

  • Time: on and off over 6 weeks- probably about 15-25 hrs total Team: Me, Quentin Jouret, Philippe Birgy, Pwikmasta Link: heavenstone.net/three/ Well, time is definitely up for my contribution to Runaway Parade. On the theme of “Three’s a Crowd”, Quentin and I had…

  •  After a few months of really hard work, we finally submitted Sporks Up to the Apps for Healthy Kids competition. I’m happy to take a break on it, though it was a lot of fun. This is my first full…

  • http://www.facebook.com/pages/Two-Cave-Disco-Downstairs/296373032243?v=wall  30 fans and counting 😉 There’s still the myspace page too.

  • This was part of a final project for our marketing class, where we came up with an idea for a fancy toosty-roll, targeted to a high-end market.  

  • This is was by far the most ambitious project that Jeff and I actually accomplished. 70-page script, more than an hour of final footage, and tons of work. Check it out:

  • Freshman year, Jeff and I did this little project…

  • Check out the concert we did at Zach’s birthday party. We played 4 songs (well acutally 5, but the 5th was awful). Here are the videos: Anonymous Japanese Suicide Derek J Hale Intelligent Shoes Unfortunately, the video is a bit…