My name is Shane Craven. I am currently a Software Engineer in Microsoft working on Office Extensibility. This is a legacy portfolio, please click the button below to visit my modern one.
As part of our course we completed a web development module using Microsoft's .NET framework. Compcon is an idea for a website that provides a platform for companies to directly engage with customers through a live chat service or traditional internet forums.
Portal 2 is one of my favorite video games. It blends clever story telling and humor with unique gaming mechanics. My episodic steam workshop collection "Rescue The Companion Cube" has a cumulative total unique user download count of 5300+
Orion is my FYP (Final Year Project) and is currently in development. The concept will use the Kinect sensor to allow device control using natural user interfaces.
"Only with light can we uncover the darkness" - Light for Dark is a game I currently have in development. It follows the story of a child who inherits an old lamp from his grandfather which reveals to him what really lurks in the dark.
"Complete life's challenges one achievement at a time" - As part of our course we had a module on Android Application Development. Myself and a group of two others came up with lifechievements. The concept is simple, bring the world of achievements into real life rewarding people for completing real world objectives allowing the competitive world of achievements we see in video games expand to reality.
The first OOD project to be completed as part of our course was a Student Record System. This application could be used on the Command Line and also allow the user to interact with it through a GUI. The system allowed for the creation of multiple types of users, courses, modules, grades etc
Here you can find very simple programs that I created while learning the Java programming language. It was my first programming language to learn and it resulted with me falling in love with software development. We all have to start somewhere.
Visit my Wiki for detailed information on projects I'm working on or have worked on as well as items of interest. The homepage contains a site directory so you can easily find the topic of interest.