Projects

This is a collection of the things I've made for course work, personal projects, and professional work.

Professional Work

These are all the things I was employed to created, and have released professionally.

BALLISTIC - Released On Steam

This is my first step into multiplayer games, and I think it went really well. I took the role of both lead programmer and network engineer, since I had the most experience with both Unity and programming. This was the game I've published on Steam, and I'm really proud of it and the team.

Linked - Released On Google Play

This is the first of hopefully many small mobile games I want to make. The identity I want to form is taking genres and reducing them to their absolute purest form. I believe doing that will make for novel gameplay that fans of those genres will find refreshing. Linked takes the bullet hell genre, and reduces it to it's core mechanic: movement.

Personal Projects

These are all the projects I've made on my own time.

Splitter - WIP

This is a personal project I've been slowly working on over time. So far, I've made the procedural destruction system, character controller, and some rudimentary combat systems. My next step is to add in the outer game loops, mainly level progression.

Game Jams

These are the games I've made for game jams. I've really enjoyed participating in these, and working with the teams I joined. Game jams have been great experiences that I approach with the goal of learning something new, or achieving something I previously wouldn't have thought I could do.

Carrion - Discord Jam 8 (Decay)

You play as worm, responsible for decomposing the decaying matter throughout the forest. Eat and avoid predators. This was the first time I had worked in Godot. The node system felt very foreign to me as someone used to components, but I was able to pick it up pretty quickly. I appreciate the simplicity of the engine, especially for game jams like this.

Gweeble Garden - Ludum Dare 56 (Tiny Creatures)

Cultivate your gweeble garden. Each gweeble has a word. Connect them together to tell a story, or write a poem. I feel like I've become really comfortable with Godot after this game. It was a lot of fun creating a game more focused on the social aspect. It's definitely one of my favorite small games I've made.

Chimera Cave - PROCJAM 2024

A halloween themed roque-lite, boss-rush, shoot-em up. The main challenge with this game jam was to incorporate procedural generation. I mainly worked on creating the boss generation, but I was also the main artist. It had been a while since I've done a lot of art, and I'm happy that I was able to do as good of a job as I did.

Eclipse - Curdle Jam 35 (Marking Your Territory)

This was the first game I made using Unreal Engine. I wanted to start with something simple, but I did end up using a lot of the basics. I got to play with physics, scripting, sound, UI, materials, and post-processing. I had heard a lot about blueprints being amazing, and at first I was expecting something completely unique in visual scripting. But, as I used it, I realized what makes it great is how it always has exactly what I'm looking for.

What's The Tea, Sis? - Girly Game Jam

I got to do the writing for this jam. I pulled mainly on Mean Girls to write a comically over-the-top story about teen drama. This was the first time I did writing in a while, and it was really fun to see the reactions people had to the twists I made.

Course Work

My game design courses have given me a lot to put here. Most of these were created over 1-2 weeks, which made for smaller, but more focused experiences.

WitchCraft - CMPM 125

This was a pretty big project I worked on in a group with 2 other people. Our theme was "Craft and Conquer". The idea we came up with was a rogue-lite about a witch therapist who helps people conquer their fears. As the witch, the player collects items to craft stronger and stronger spells. I'm most proud of the procedural level generation, and the crafting system I created for the game.

TUG-O-WAR - ARTG 80G

I really enjoyed making this. The assignment was an "interactive game poster". I wanted to exercise communicating controls without text or tutorials, so I focused on making the interface as simple as possible.

Loopy House - CMPM 120

The professor had us fork a git repo that had a prefab scene for a point-and-click style adventure game. I decided to create a maze of rooms that loop into each other. It was pretty challenging making sure that the player couldn't soft-lock themselves by taking a bad path.

JUGGLER - CMPM 120

I wanted to make something that used very simple gestures, and required the player to manage a progressively more chaotic system. Juggling came to mind as a really straight-forward answer.

ChronoCart - CMPM 120

This was the group project final for the class. The prompt for the assignment was "close in space, far in time". We came up with an infinite runner where you can transform the terrain and those transformations are saved across runs.

Side-Hustle Simulator - ARTG 120

This was the first school project I got to use Unity for in college, which I was really happy about. The game takes a body-horror twist on idle/tapper genre games such as Adventure Capitalist.