Before you guys review this project poorly for the usage of AI, I would wanna make it clear that i still learnt a really good amount of development. At the end of the day software development is about shaping the user experience and design a product that solved the problem and is worth using. I used AI to aid me with the tedious work that would have otherwise been impossible within my timeframe of less than 2 weeks.
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Cutting to the chase this dance game was made for a local competition in my country. The theme for the competition was about how culture can be preserved using technology. The full project also includes a physical arcade style device with a dancing servo robot with 6 joints (excluding knees).
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The goal of the project is to act as an entry point for students in Singapore to learn more about cultural dances in Singapore. I chose to approach the preservation of culture via learning cultural dances as it bypasses any linguistic barriers to make it more widely accessible to better serve as an entry point for younger kids to have at least a faint idea on how other cultures are like.
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With about 28 hours spent on coding this and countless more on the hardware, ideation, documentation, admin and much more, I managed to clench first place in the competition. I also feel that the current state of the app is satisfactory as a prototype.
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Even though quite buggy and somewhat unstable, I would potentially update the project near the end of the year, until then i would be moving onto other projects! I hope yall find this attempt at preserving culture with technology meaningful, fun or at least interesting, thanks for reading!

Finally added in some bosses

now the players are encouraged to always be moving and avoiding shots fired by the boss. The boss is more passive in the sense that it does not actively seek the player out but puts on pressure in the background. The player now has to dodge the bosses attacks, destroy immediate threats like the red and purple enemies and then focus on reducing the bosses health. The boss gives a huge amount of money so that the players are truly incentivised to destroy it.

playing further, i realise i can improve further by adding:

• durability to the weapons so that the player has to be in a cycle of buying more weapons with increasing prices
• there can be more movement options and movement mechanics that can affect the gameplay like how Ultrakill feels
• There can be more points of interest to encourage travelling longer distances. Maybe some loot boxes, destroyed freighters or like lore exposition like in No Man’s Sky

Link: https://vensah.dev/NASA-API-website/

I wanted to do my own spin on the NASA API projects by making it scroll infinitely like Instagram or a social media app in general. You can scroll through and check out some images, hover over it for the date and click on it for even more info.

The rationale, is to make it fun and engaging to look through these pictures, and one good way is to have an infinitely scrolling page with randomly loaded images which is a great way to check out the pictures NASA has without having to think of a specific date and input it.

Currently the main part is that its an MVP that has all the functionality woking well already. The images load 3 at a time by fetching the image and storing it into an img object to preload and then display 3 at a time, based on how far the user scrolls. This means they can scroll forever (until i reach the rate limit per hour lol) and see random new images from NASA.

In a future devlog i plan to add in features like a like button, a share button, a button to get a high res download, support for youtube video embeds and change the UI to feel more Social Media-ish

LIVE AT: https://y-lead-2026.vercel.app/

I made a website for one of my school’s events called Y.LEAD which is a 4 day leadership camp for my juniors. As part of the organising committee, I took the opportunity to create a nice website for both participants and facilitators to access information like the days schedule, certain activity materials, photos taken during the event, event teasers/storyline videos etc…

When designing the website, I aimed it to be user centric by follow conventional navigation and UX. Additionally, I came up with a palette and then started creating the different pages of the website trying to make everything feel fresh and aesthetically pleasing. Some elements following this philosophy:

• animated timeline graphic instead of a google sheet, todo list or calendar component
• depth effect with animations in the landing page
• ability to search cheers for participants during the event
• animated hero for theme page
• embeds instead of plain links to the external resources
• glowing effect behind images

some challenges I faced was ensuring the website was responsive on practically any screen size. I specially made a vertical poster for the landing page just for mobile and different layouts for mobile and larger screens.

Additionally, another challenge was slow loading speeds for images, that would ruin the landing page especially when I first started out, luckily the fix was quite straightforward. I converted all the images to avif format and set it to a lower quality on low res screen as there wont be a big visible difference, reserving a max res of 2k for larger screens like 1440p.

All in all, I would say this is one of the projects in which i had the most fun building, I got to learn even more about responsive web design, UX, performance optimisation and even got to experience how it’s like to program a website with tight deadlines and an actual production target.

Even though theres only 14 hours logged on stardance, I have spent around 40-50 hours painstakingly coding most of this website by myself, AI was mostly sparingly only for debugging and refactoring some parts of the code or generating boilerplate.

With that I have finally finished this project start to end!

Bug fixes, extra features and even more content and redirects for participants to use.

can be downloaded at https://github.com/vensah-dev/pew-pew/releases/tag/v1.1.0

I am working on a game called Pew Pew. The concept is a wave based arcade style 3D space shooter. Some of the controls are inspired by No Man’s Sky. The game aims to fill the void of 3D space games that aren’t arcade style combat oriented with quick rounds and meta progression. Eventually, i aim to be able to have a campaign mode for the game!

Currently the game has:

• better starship handling taking inspiration from No Man’s Sky
• unique enemy AI behaviour for three different unique enemies with different styles
• wave based game loop
• death screen
• purchase store in space station for 2 other guns and health repair kits/boosters or shield boosters/repairs

currently the shooting and can feel hard or buggy, i would be adding in an auto aim assist for long range targets on the machine gun so that early game can be more enjoyable and easier to play before the target seeking weapons are available

i started this game a few months ago but had some struggles with motivation and so am now updating it again to reignite my passion for it and eventually release a full version.

I made a website for one of my school’s events called Y.LEAD. The website serves as a common platform for participants and facilitators to access information like timeline, the different events, participant documents (soon to be added), overview, credit for people involved