Portfolio - Niclas Ericsson

Audio Looping

React Native

Expo

LJUD is an app about audio looping and manipulation made with React Native. It's basically me playing with the audio library in Expo, trying to create something fun.

Check it out on Expo

Game

PC

2D

Unity

C#

?

I'm (slowly) working on another new untitled game. What can it be?

Coming soon!

Habit Tracker

React Native

Redux

Expo

Jox is a simple and minimalistic habit tracker. Set up weekly goals for each habit and get stars as you pass your goals. The app is made with React Native and Expo, using a Redux state flow. Available now for iOS (and soon on Android).

App Store

Communication

React Native

Socket

Expo

The StudyAlong App is a communication app that students and teachers can use to communicate easy on the StudyAlong platform. Users can chat, look at their schedule, check their attendance and more. It is a native app made with React Native (using a Redux state flow) and Expo. A socket server is resonsible for real-time events like chat messages and notifications. I've designed and developed the app mostly on my own by utilizing a UCD workflow.

App Store
Google Play

Art/Music Schools

Learning

React

PHP

StudyAlong is an administrative system developed for art and music schools in Sweden. The system consits of four parts: course catalog, admin tools, teaching platform for students and teaching materials. I've done lots of things on the site, including:

Redesigned the look of the site by creating wireframes and prototypes
Developed new features, such as new admin tools and better ways for communication
Fixed better handling of data and better data flows on the server
More

Visit StudyAlong

Music

Learning

React

PHP

Learn to play, wherever you want, whenever you want. With PlayAlong, you can learn to play new instruments such as guitar, bass, drums, piano or even harmonica through video lessons made by various different artists and musicians. The progression system lets you see how many lessons you've completed in a course. The service is subscription-based. I've done lots of front- and backend stuff on the site, including:

Added a progression system and simple gamification
Improvements and new features for the video player
Reworked the payment flow for the user
Lots of server fixes
More

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Game

iOS

Android

Unity

Peppy Pals Sammy Helps Out is a fun, interactive storybook app for kids about collaboration, emotions and friendship. It illustrates the importance of encouraging others, being kind and helping a friend in need. I did most of the game programming in Unity, including writing scripts, staging animations and more. I also conducted usability test sessions with both children and adults.

App Store
Google Play
Amazon
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Visualization

Particle System

Unity

OpenGL

C#

Norrsken is a particle-based interactive visualization. It's developed in Unity and intended to run on big touchable 4K screens. The user can touch the screen to create gravity points and make the particles move in different patterns.

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Game

Android

Unity

C#

Augmented reality

BRARWL is an augmented reality mobile multiplayer game about fighting and surviving. By looking on the game board through the camera on the mobile phone, the player can control the character with an on-screen gamepad. There are five different characters to choose from, each with different skills and abilities. The player can also interact with the game environment with physical cards that add digital objects to the game.

I was responsible for some gameplay programming and other features in the game world. I also did some 3D modeling and made animations, including one of the playable characters and props like barrels and bridges.

Watch the trailer

Website

HTML/JS

Bootstrap

Kulturskolan.se is a simple information website for Swedish art schools. Made in collaboration with Kulturskolerådet.

Visit Kulturskolan.se
Visit Kulturskolerådet

Game

PC

Unity

C#

Tabletop interaction

PixelSense 2.0

Bloodcells and Friends is a cooperative operation game that is played on a tabletop computer with touch and fiducials. The goal of the game is to keep the patient alive for as long as possible by stopping the bleedings that pop up randomly with fiducials. The players can also use touch to erase the patient’s skin and remove organs.

I coded and implemented the mech cutting mechanics, and I also created the character model and all the additional assets.

Get the game code

Visualization

HTML/JS

D3.js

Exhibit at Transportation Museum

Tidebanan visualizes the history of the growth of the Stockholm metro system and the population changes in the city during this period. It started out as a student project and it is since September 2015 a permanent exhibit at the Transportation Museum in Stockholm. It also won in the People's Choice category at the C-Awards 2015. Read more about Tidebanan below.

Tidebanan at Spårvägsmuséet
Tidebanan at C-Awards 2015

Drum Simulation

Polyrhythms

Novint Falcon

C++

Drumtastic is an application where the user interacts with two Novint Falcon haptic devices to play virtual drums. When hitting a drum with one of the virtual cursors, haptic feedback is generated and a drum sound is played. There are two modes: Learning Mode and Free Play Mode. In the first mode, the user can choose a desired polyrhythm to learn, and the haptic devices will follow that pattern. In Free Play Mode, the user can drum freely without guidance.

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Android

HTML/JS

Wearable touchscreen

This is the Memonile, a necklace used for taking notes whenever and wherever. Made as the final project for the theme "wearable technology" in 2014 by me, John Turesson, Dan Cariño, Anxiao Chen and Erik Dahlström. The project also got attended to the interaction design conference SIDeR in March 2015, where it was presented. Read more below.

The Memonile Paper
SIDeR 2015 Website

Kinect

Shape Recognition

HTML/JS

Kinectable lets you draw, move and resize different shapes on a regular table surface. By using a Microsoft Kinect camera, we track the user's hand location and gestures. This lets you turn any flat surface into a touch screen.

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HTML/JS

Facebook Integration

Vis'it is a mobile app where you can share your visits to the world. It's a bit like virtual postcards, where you take a picture and upload it to your feed.

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Game

Python

Puzzle

AI

Tic Tac Toe (Tre-i-rad) is one of the first projects I made as a student. It is a three-in-a-row-game created in Python, with different skins and statistics. The goal is to win over the AI.

Download the assets
Requires Python 3.3 or later.

Niclas Ericsson

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