WM Games

Mackenzie Donahaue

About Our Company
Will and Mackenzie, the founders of WM Games, both have a passion for working with and teaching children. WM Games first, and only game, is Trash Dash. Trash Dash was created by Will and Mackenzie during a four week studio they attended at the NUVU program in Cambridge Massachusetts. The main goal of the studio was to create tablet games for ages 11-15 in Kenya and India. Both founders of WM Games enjoy programming and animating, making the studio a perfect fit for both of them. They both ultimately wanted to create an environmental game that would be fun and teach students how to properly dispose garbage. It took them two weeks to conceive and develop the idea of Trash Dash before they started prototyping. After a long four weeks, WM Games was created and their first game was a success.
Our Philosophy 

 Will and Mackenzie are close in age with the students they created Trash Dash for. They felt it was easy for them to judge if 11-15 year olds would enjoy their game. Programming wise they both did not have much experience, but enjoyed it alot. They had never had training with programming before but picked it up quite easily. Will and Mackenzie have had much experience with photoshop and created the graphics with ease.

Key Players

 

Will Truslow, Game designer, Programmer

Will Truslow is a Junior at Beaver Country Day School. His interests include filmmaking,

Mackenzie Donahue, UI designer, visual designer

Mackenzie Donahue is a tenth grader attending Beaver Country Day School. Her interests are photography, community service, and traveling. Mackenzie is a part of a community service group called ASC. She spends most of her time worker with homeless kids from ages three to twenty. When Mackenzie teaches the kids something new she feels very accomplished. Her experience teaching kids had definitely helped prepare her for creating educational games. Being interested in photography and photoshop was perfect for visual design. Mackenzie strived when it came to creating graphics. Traveling is another one of Mackenzies passions. “I really hope someday I can play the games I have created with children around the world” said Mackenzie.