Game Projects
Metal Frontier
Team Size: 5
PC, Meta Quest 2
Description
Metal Frontier is a wave-based roguelike VR shooter that takes place in the Wild West. Every wave the player can choose one of three randomly chosen modifiers
Contributions
Lead Programmer
Developed roguelike modifier system, employing object-oriented design and polymorphism for scalability and maintenance.
Engineered Enemy AI utilizing Unity's navmesh and a state machine for easily switching between diffrent behaviors
Implemented synchronization of enemy shoot animations with shoot functionality using Unity animation events.
Reduced technical debt by refactoring the weapon system to allow common shooting behaviors to be assigned. Also set up a multi level inheritance system to allow weapons to only inherit the behaviors they need. This made it easier and faster to create new weapons.
Used the Unity profiler tool to optimize the games performance, increasing the average FPS from 15 FPS to over 70 FPS on PC, and 60 FPS on the Quest 2 directly.
Tools Used: Unity, Jetbrains Rider, Jira, Git
Max Speed
Team Size: 6
Platforms: Windows and Mac OS
Description
Max Speed is an endless racing game where you earn points by performing tricks while in the air or by running over pedestrians. The goal of the game is to reach the current point goal before the timer runs out. Each time the timer reaches zero and the goal has been met, the goal will increase. Max Speed also has an online leaderboard so players can compete with one another from any version of the game.
Contributions
Lead Programmer
Lead most of the programming decisions for the game
Created infinite level generation system
Also created tools inside the Unity Inspector for the level generation, which allowed any team member to make changes to spawn rate and other settings without the need to make any code changes
Created an online leaderboard using LootLocker SDK
Implemented most of the audio into the game
Helped other programmers develop features and fix bugs for almost every aspect of the game.
Tools Used: Unity, LootLocker, Git, Jetbrains Rider
Crustacean Frustration
Team Size: 7
Platforms: iPhone and Android
Description
Crustacean Frustration is a brick breaker game I worked on as a part of the DigiStudio program at MassDigi. When I was assigned to the project the game was already released and was on the app stores for both iPhone and Android. My job was to work with other students from different universities to fix bugs and expand upon the existing features.
Contributions
Programmer
Learned analytics on the job and added analytics to track how many players got through the tutorial
Worked with other students to determine where player retention was dropping
Created a background-changing system that changed the background after the player beat a certain amount of levels in order to combat the drop in player retention.
Learned how to work with save data in order to ensure the current background the player was on persisted through play sessions
Fixed a number of bugs that made it hard for team members to playtest
Worked with other programmers to do code reviews before merging changes into the main branch
With the help of other students on the team, we created a presentation to summarize our progress to our supervisor
Tools Used: Unity, Plastic SCM, Trello, Miro, When2Meet
Tilt Maze
Solo Project
Platforms: Windows, Linux, Mac OS
Description
The idea for Tilt Maze was inspired by the Myahm Agana Shrine puzzle in the legend of Zelda: Breath of the wild. I tried to replicate the tilting mechanics from that puzzle and then expanded upon it to make Tilt maze unique from the puzzle. The goal of the game is to roll the ball to the exit before time runs out. Portals have random chance to spawn and can give you a shortcut if they spawn in advantageous positions. Some Maps also have blocked passages and you will need to find a key in order to get to the exit.
Contributions
Programmer
Developed the rotation controls and angle locking
Created Random Item spawn system and random map selection
Developed Portal system and wrote logic to maintain minimum portal distance to ensure that the portals would always be useful
Created game timer
Wrote code for key system and interaction with gate
3D Artist
Created wall and floor models using Blender
Modeled portal base model in blender then sculpted in Zbrush
Created procedural textures using Substance Designer
Textured portal and created emission maps using Substance painter
VFX Artist
Created Portal effect using Unity Shader Graph
Created see-through effect using a custom renderer by using Unity Universal Render Pipeline. The renderer lets you see the ball and other objects through walls