Kate Bagenzo

a dithered red and black photograph of kate bagenzo a dithered red and black close up photograph of kate's eye a dithered red and black photograph of kate's fingers resting on a keyboard

a mysterious being making games, tools, and art

hi, i'm kate/katie/katey. you can call me whichever! i'm also known online as bagenzo.

i make interactive things for the web. over the years i've worked with pretty much every tech and tool under the sun, from small hobbyist engines to professional dev pipelines.

i like to make narrative based games and strange things.

i'm proficient in the whole html/css/javascript sandwich, modern web frameworks, and enjoy UI design as well.

Site Design
  • [computing in 2024]

    a computer, stool, and plant sat on a floating cube

    a commission for container magazine. virtual collage gallery on being a user/hacker/engineer in 2024.

    i made both the gallery itself (with vue) as well as the artworks.

  • Middle Sea Software

    a dithered image of the iberian peninsula

    a place for my game collaborations with fotocopiadora.

    small SPA made with vue

  • ClaymoreGwen's Portfolio

    an electrical transformer

    the page of a lovely visual artist. statically generated site with a custom JS image gallery and liquid shortcodes to create thumbnails.

  • Domino Gallery

    a series of dominos with game images on them

    a website for domino club, the game collective. made in hugo. coding contributions by me, sean and candle, featuring collaboration and input from the entire collective

    i was responsible for putting together the design of the site.

  • Mariken Drawinge

    a curled up mouse

    mariken didn't have any css for her website, so i scurried along and made something quickly. like a mouse.

  • Bagenzo's House

    a photorealistic red brick house with a red front door, yellow tile roof, and two windows with green curtains

    my personal website. intentionally designed as a web 1.0 throwback. it's a lot sillier than this site; mostly focused on personal hobbies.

    press: polygon

Webapps and Software
  • strawberry starter

    pixel art of a strawberry

    an 11ty blog template designed with beginners in mind; no HTML experience necessary.

    features include one-command direct upload to neocities, using their API.

  • lilly & vivi's dressup game

    a cat sipping orange juice

    a programming commission for GATOSHOP.

    a cute dress up game with two characters to choose from

  • Myst Camera

    the red book from myst, displaying a page of static

    have you ever wanted to be stuck in one of the trap books from myst(1993)? now, you can

    js webcam app that lets you record a short .webm inside a myst book

  • Katey's Picture Day

    a dithered black and white image of a hand doing a peace sign

    it's picture day! put on the fancy outfit your mom left out and go to school - so she can pay lifetouch $300 for a bunch of wallet sized photos of you. ah, the memories!

    a small js webcam app for taking dithered pictures

Selected Game Work
Writing
  • hareraiser ii

    a purple maze obscured by red fog

    exploring a possible alternate reality for hareraiser (1984), a controversial and nonsensical game with a treasure hunt behind it

    for undo jam

  • crime life crime wave

    a man holding a rocket launcher overlooking a house and an exploding car

    a small story about growing up making videogames, the old gamemaker game crimelife 2, and the mysterious things that haunt the childhood subconscious

    for forgotten games essay jam