About

Hello!

I'm Jordan Coolbeth.

I was first introduced to programming when I was nine years old. My elementary school hosted an "Hour of Code" event, and my parents decided it might be fun for me to try it out. I spent some time that night working on a school issued Chromebook to make a little Minecraft dude walk around and build a house. I was obsessed. Once I finished the basic tutorials, I started programming him to make more complex structures. It was a simple tool, so I didn't get far, but I couldn't wait to try more. 

Shortly afterwards, my parents found some simple programming tools for me to mess around with and installed them on my mom's laptop. They signed me up for basic class on Scratch, and later on for a kid's code jam hosted at a local college. I made some friends in my middle school who also enjoyed programming and we would make games together during study halls. 

Once I got to high school, I enrolled in my school's early college program. I took every computer science class and digital art class they had to offer. By the time senior year rolled around, I had run out of computer science classes to take, so I signed up for the game design class instead, as well as some advanced classes at my local community college. That game design class was my favorite class that year. My final project was a short platformer, complete with a boss battle and a short story about saving your kidnapped sibling. 

I initially planned to study Computer Science or Software Engineering in college, with the intention of designing games later on. That was until I realized I could just study Game Design instead.  I graduated high school with my Associate's Degree in Mathematics from my local community college and am now double majoring in Game Design and Game Programming, with a minor in Mathematics, at Champlain College.

At heart, I am still that little kid who loved watching her and her friend's crazy ideas come to life in study hall. My dream is to make and publish my own games, and I'm currently working on a variety of small class and personal projects. 

For now, though, I still have a lot to learn. I'm seeking summer internships, either online or in person around Syracuse, NY.