Projects
Game Development 
DeadPedal
July 2024 - Present
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Summary
Deadpedal is a team based combat racing game currently in development by Faycrest Studios. Join some of the best racers from around the globe in this high octane racing video game that pushes the boundaries of speed, skill, and competition. Strap in and prepare for the ride of a lifetime as you embark on a journey through intense races, heart-pounding challenges, and the ultimate quest for victory.
Project Overview
- Genre: 3D Racings Game
- Role: AI Programmer
- Platform: PC
- Work Duration: Four Months
- Team Size: 25
- Tools: Unreal 5, Visual Studios, Github
Responsibilities
- In charge of improving old AI navigation by using Unreal Navmesh and Splines
- Learning AI plugin EZRacer which uses a Finite State Machine and Waypoints for navigation
- Improving navigation by improving AI prediction of forward speed and brake speed
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Ugly The Cat: Missiles and Mayhem is a 3D action-combat party game inspired by Quake, where players fight as cats with bazookas in a hectic and chaotic gameplay environment. This project a Playstation 5 game being created on a custom engine. There is also a Unity prototype created for this project that was developed to test the gameplay concepts of our PS5 prototype publicly.
Project Overview
- Genre: 3D Action-Combat Party Game
- Role: Gameplay Programmer
- Platform: PS5 & PC
- Work Duration: Four Months
- Team Size: 7
- Tools: C++, PS5 DevKit, Visual Studios, C#, Unity, Github
- Displayed At: RPI GameFest & RIT Imagine: Creativity and Innovation Festival
- Nominated for: Best Technical at RPI GameFest
Responsibilities
- Programmed in Quake-like, velocity based movement
- Programmed in a jump pad
- Programmed all power-ups
- Added in elements to the custom PS5 engine
- Created two other initial prototypes in Unity in a week when initially deciding the idea for our game
Takeaways
- The difficulties of developing a game while an engine is being developed
- What it's like to recreate code between C# and C++
- The importance of code organization and constant communication
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Croak and Dagger is a game where you play as a frog named Dagger who works alongside his magical son Croak. Croak is a special frog who transforms into different weapons as he goes through the different stages of the frog life cycle. For the gameplay, Dagger uses Croak as his weapon to fight off enemies, with the gameplay evolving with Croak. Speaking of evolving, Croak changes into different weapons depending on the player's narrative choices.
Project Overview
- Genre: 3D Narrative Hack n' Slash
- Role: Gameplay and AI Programmer
- Platform: PC
- Work Duration: 10 Months
- Team Size: 15-20
- Tools: Unity, C#, Visual Studios, Github
- Displayed At: RIT Imagine: Creativity and Innovation Festival
Responsibilities
- Programmed initial AI for the Mosquito Enemy
- Programmed in the save system
- Programmed Croak's movement and jumping
- Programmed and reworked Dagger's tongue attack
- Implmeneted a lot of gameplay improvements
Takeaways
- Working in a larger team can cause a lot more confusion and communication issues
- Trying to get multiple Navmeshes working in Unity is complicated
- Documentation and Commenting are essential when you take a break from a project
- Sometimes it takes a lot of iterations to get something to where you want it to be
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Welcome! Thank you for agreeing to participate in testing our newly developed R.A.T. (Responsive Artifical Tracer)! Please help teach R.A.T the best ways to get through our specially designed puzzles, not every solution is as obvious as it seems. The R.A.T is a puzzle game designed around an AI, the R.A.T, who will always take the most efficient path. Your goal is to force the R.A.T to follow a pre-planned specific path, by placing blocks around the map to influence the R.A.T's decision-making. Can you solve all of the puzzles?
Project Overview
- Genre: 3D Puzzle Game
- Role: AI Programmer
- Platform: PC
- Work Duration: Four Months
- Team Size: 3
- Tools: Unity, C#, Visual Studios, Github
Responsibilities
- Programmed an A* algorithm
- Programmed a GOAP decision-making system and connected to AStar
- Programmed initial block placement system
- Assisted in planning out AI design
Takeaways
- Learning how the GOAP system works
- How to translate a thought process into code that an AI can understand
- The importance of time management in a project
Tank Game
November 2023 - December 2023
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A simple Tank Game developed as practice for using the PlayStation 4 Development Kit. The game is a 3D PVP game that also includes basic enemy AI. The game was inspired by the Wii Tanks minigame and thus uses a top-down camera, but the game also allows for a first-person split-screen experience instead. The players can attack one another, along with the randomly spawning enemies on the map.
Project Overview
- Genre: 3D PVP Action Game
- Role: Gameplay and AI Programmer
- Platform: PS4
- Work Duration: 2 Weeks
- Team Size: 7
- Tools: C++, PS4 DevKit, Visual Studios
Responsibilities
- Programmed Player detection for the Enemy using collisions and vector math
- Programmed Enemy to move towards player, but move away if player got too close to enemy
- Programmed collision detection
- Programmed wall collisions
- Assisted in debugging shooting, Enemy spawns, and movement
- Assisted in setting up switching between camera views
Takeaways
- Use easier systems to create prototypes before you develop them in a more complex system
- When making a prototype, if you use a built in Engine function, learn how to recreate this in a custom engine
- Commenting your code is even more important when using libraries that others aren't familar with
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You play as Freckle, a mole with a very big hole. A hole so big that when he falls down it, it almost seems to keep looping. A looping, never ending hole. Keep falling down the hole, and don’t let Freckle get hurt!
Project Overview
- Genre: 2D Casual Endless
- Role: Gameplay Programmer
- Platform: PC and Mobile
- Work Duration: 5 Months
- Team Size: 4
- Tools: Unity, C#, Visual Studios, Github
Responsibilities
- Programmed movement for both PC and Mobile
- Programmed moving save system for high scores
- Programmed collision
- Programmed moving platforms
- Programmed health jump effect
- Programmed damage and health
Takeaways
- Developing casual games is very different from larger projects
- The hard part about developing for mobile is different screen sizes
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Future Passing By was a game initially developed in 3 days for the 2022 Global Game Gam before continuing development a bit after. The game is about a girl from a dystopian future being helped by a man from the past. The main mechanic of the game is a line in the center of the screen which moves around to reveal the same room in two different states of time.
Project Overview
- Genre: 2D Puzzle
- Role: Gameplay Programmer
- Platform: PC
- Work Duration: 2 months
- Team Size: 7
- Tools: Unity, C#, Visual Studios, Github
- Game Jam: 2022 Global Game Jam
Responsibilities
- Programmed two movements for two characters on one keyboard
- Programmed two movements for two characters on one controller
- Programmed box pickup
- Implemented character animations
Takeaways
- It is fun to continue development after a Game Jam
- Game Jams are a great way to motivate yourself into learning new skills
- How to use Unity's new Input System to have multiple players controlled by one keyboard