Benefits of Social Media When Advertising Your Products

Franklin Academy – Feb 21, 2025

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• Spoke as a guest speaker to students on how social media can help them when starting a small business to advertise their products. Some of the things I talked about were going into detail on different strategies they can do to increase their target audience; as well as how to foster engagement with their audience, and the importance of market research and how being on multiple platforms is extremely beneficial. Also went over various free tools available to them to help them start off their small business. 

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Game Making Tools: More Than What You Think

Virginia Commonwealth University– Sept 14, 2022​​

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• Spoke as a guest speaker on how game-making tools can be used in ways more than what people tend to perceive as a typical game and how they can be used as an art expression, for immersive journalism, etc. Essentially, be used to tell the world whatever you would like; as it's interactive media, you can create using the tools people use to make video games. Also talked about how you can introduce game-making into the classroom for children K-12 and the free resources available for them. 

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Christina Orcutt Interview - Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey Colorblind Mode

Screenrant - Oct 2, 2021

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• Interviewed by Screenrant about Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey's many color blindness options and how they work and what went into making them.

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Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey Environment Designer Discusses Accessibility Options and More

The Pro Faned Otaku - Sept 23, 2021

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• Interviewed about the Colorblindness Accessibility in Puzzle Bobble 3D: Vacation Odyssey. Went over types of colorblindness, what we did in the game to help those with color impairment, and went over a little bit about what else is being done in the world to help those with accessibility issues.

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Breaking into VR with Survios: The Time is Now

Wonder Women in Tech - Aug 18, 2017

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• Spoke on a Panel at the Wonder Women in Tech Conference in Long Beach. We talked about what it was like breaking into R as women, what our experiences as women at Survios was like, what some of the different and unique challenges you have to design for because the tech is VR, plus, a few other things.