Micah Puccio-Ball

Cow Game

This was a quick proof of concept for me. Created all assets myself without using a game engine. It is all created with Java. Backgrounds, character models, music, and sound effects were all made with basic tools. I like to think the proof of concept was inspired by the Dr. Lunatic Series created by Hamumu Games. The object of the game is to bring the cow into the blue area. During the game, you'll have to fight off enemies, unlock doors, possibly milk the cow, and think outside the box as the puzzles get harder to solve. GitHub Link

Advent of Code 2023

I was looking for ways to improve my coding skills. I had already automated my work as much as I needed and wanted some challenges. I discovered an annual challenge known as the Advent of Code. The challenge is held every year and serves as a competitive challenge. Every day at midnight, a new problem is released that needs to be solved. I was able to solve the first 9 days before I felt the challenges were taking too much time. As of writing this, Day One was solved by over 230,000 people. Day Nine was solved by 77,000. The challenges involved plenty of algorithms and dealt with plenty of string manipulation. Since the challenges were all command-line-based, I don't have any pictures to show. I can, however, share the GitHub link. GitHub Link

Profile Processing

My work for my data entry job, at times, became incredibly monotonous. Look at a profile, determine whether or not it was fraudulent or a duplicate, either confirm or delete it. I would look at IPs, addresses, emails, phone numbers, compare similar profiles. Using various public APIs, I automated all of the checks. I had to use Google's OAuth2 in order to access sheets that needed authorization. After performing the checks, I needed to reverse engineer the website my company uses for panel management. Now I'm able to make nearly direct changes. Without the assistance of the program, one profile would take about 5 minutes. With its assistance, the process now only takes 20-30 seconds per profile. I am unable to share the GitHub of this project, but I do have a single image to show the user interface.

Avalanche Discord Bot

Following Advent of Code 2023, I wanted to continue getting experience. I remembered how there used to be a Discord bot that allowed you to listen to music in a Discord call that was forced to stop its services. I believe more bots were made that could do the job, but I decided to make my own. On top of the ability to play music while in calls, I programmed a few basic social games such as "Psychologist." I added a couple more small features and plan to add to it in the future. GitHub Link

Flying Fluffy Discord Bot

After dabbling with Discord bot stuff, I fell into an opportunity to create a Discord server for a small YouTube channel. Along with the server, I created a bot to facilitate some moderation duties. It is a sports-based server. I created a bot to scrape scores, stats, and news. Users can instantly check for individual player stats, odds, and other information. Additionally, the bot creates game threads for each game and moderates the whole server. GitHub Link