Projects

Dissonance

• Dissonance website
• A VR narrative puzzle game
• Made in Unreal Engine 4, using C++ and blueprints
• Uses the HTC Vive
• Recruiter approached team to publish this game
• Team of 10 people, I am one of the 3 programmers
• I was acquired for the team as a tools programmer
• Game was started first semester senior year, I joined second semester
• Major Contributions:
  • Fixed the game to be stable and not crash numerous times
  • Puzzle API: uses C++ code and Blueprints, with help of the other programmer
  • Fixed issue with puzzles not being initialized.
  • Fixed all the crashes that were caused touching puzzles that weren’t initialized
    • The crash error message was “Assert array size >= 0”
    • So it was confusing why the the game was crashing on an assert statement
    • Fixed the game from crashing by initing the puzzles until the number of puzzle inited were greater than 1

Darkest Night

• DarkestNight GitHub
• Published on itch.io
• A top down survival game, where you have to survive for 5 nights
• Made in Unreal Engine 4, using blueprints
• Created in Console Programming, Senior year
• Created for the PC
• The most impressive feature that I put into this game was a day and night cycle
  • The shadows of the player, enemies, buildings and barricades dynamically change
  • During the night the only light is a low intensity light
  • This makes it more intense when the monsters spawn
• The second most impressive feature is monster AI
  • The AI uses Unreal’s Dynamic Pathfinding
  • The AI consist of aggroed, non aggroed and searching behaviors
  • During each phase the mesh is a different color
  • When the AI is non aggroed, it walks to the players base
    • To deaggro an AI the player has to get too far away or completely block its path so the AI can’t get to the player
  • When the AI is aggroed, its speed increases and chases the player
    • To aggro the AI the player has to get within the aggro range
  • When the AI is searching, it isn’t moving and is waiting for the player to get inside the aggro range or after 5 secs it becomes deaggroed

Robotley Crue

• Robotley Crue GitHub
• On rail shooter with rhythm elements
• Created in 5 weeks
• Created in Unity, used Kinect sensor then switched over to Wii sensor
• Created in Senior Capstone, first semester of senior year
• Was part of a team, 1 of 2 programmers
• Major contributions:
  • Enemy AI
    • Each enemy has a different movement pattern
    • When the enemies get to the player they explode
  • Adding music and sound effects
  • Converting the code to use wii remotes
    • The controllers are Wii guitar hero controllers
    • Uses This Wii API by Flafla2

Glitched!

• Glitched! GitHub
• A 2.5D platformer
• Created in 13 weeks
• Created in Unity
• Was part of a team, solo programmer
• Created in Production 2, Junior year
• The most impressive parts of this game are the two boss fights
  • To make the boss AI, I used a State Machine
  • Each attack that the boss does is a different state

Encryption Algorithm

• Algorithm GitHub
• Uses pseudo random numbers to encrypt/decrypt
• Can encrypt compatible files or text from the exe
• Made in Visual Studios, using C++
• Created during summer vacation during my junior year
• The most difficult part of making an encryption algorithm is making it different
  • The formula that I used to calculate pseudo random numbers are:
  • (Multiple * StartingSeed/PreviousNumber + Adding) mod 95
  • To make it different, the algorithm picks out certain numbers out of an array to use to encrypt/decrypt

Beat of the Flame

• Beat of the Flame GitHub
• Rhythm game
• Created within 5 weeks
• Uses AS3 as the programming language
• Was part of a team, solo programmer
• Created in Production 1, Sophomore year
• This game has an interactive tutorial
  • It teaches one how to play with dialog boxes
  • Won’t advance until the player hits next or completes the tasks

Feline Astronaut

• Feline Astronaut GitHub
• A platfomer with notes playing every time you land
• Uses AS3 as the programming language
• Programmed by me, art assets were made by Sarah Weber
• Created for my Game Tech Final, Sophomore year
• The hardest part of this game was picking the best landing sounds
  • It needed to sound good when the player was in the top right corner where he always jumps and lands instantly
  • I started with random sound effects, but that sounded horrible
  • I thought of using a scale because it will always sound good
  • I knew this from my years of playing the saxophone
  • I chose the C major scale because it is the most common