About me

I'm a Senior at Ohio State University studying Computer Science.
I enjoy programming, reading, computer games, and webcomics.

My website is a list and description of some of my programming projects.
You can also find most of my coding projects on my Github

You can reach me at:
Email: matthew.d.zirbel@gmail.com
Phone: (614) 636-1743

My Projects

One Night Cardless

I made an Android app, called One Night Cardless, to play One Night Werewolf without the cards. It does the night phase of One Night Werewolf faster, simpler, and without needing to close your eyes. You can install the Android app here.

Text Based Zendo

Text based Zendo is based around the base game Zendo, adapted to be played with only text. Text-Zendo is a game about reverse-engineering a rule by checking strings and whether they match the rule. The game is hosted on Discord, with the Python bot I made, and uses a context free grammar to parse rules which are approximately human-readable, then automatically checks guesses against these rules. You can join the Discord here

Room Lights

My roommate Max and I found the lighting in our dorm room to be somewhat disappointing. We also liked the idea of using LED strips to light our room. So we made a system of LED strips to light our room. We use the LEDs for our everyday lighting and they're brighter and more cheerful than the room's yellowish light.

Lock System

We decided to automate the door as well as our lighting, so we set up a Raspberry Pi and servo on the door to control that too. The idea was to be able to unlock the door without needing a key while also not leaving it unlocked when we were away.

YouTube Pauser

I made a Chrome/Firefox extension to pause YouTube from any tab. It toggles playing in the leftmost YouTube tab when you click on it, and skips when you double click. The icon shows the current time over the total time.

You can add it to Chrome or Firefox.

Old Projects

Some of my first JS and HTML projects were made in High School.

Traffic is a simple JavaScript game of fast dodging. Use the arrow keys to dodge and use the powerups.

Knockout Pool is a multiplayer JavaScript game a bit like pool. The goal is to be the last person with balls.

Space Time is a JavaScript game I barely started, so it's quite unfinished.