Witch Forest

My current in development project -- A 3D Co-op roguelike about witches in a forest. Brew potions and use spells to try and lift the curse, at least temporarily. Work together with friends to gather all the items you need to sacrifice, and utilize unique potions to defeat enemies, or merely trick them. Choose different classes each with unique traits and spells with different exploration uses.
This project is largely focused on integrating with Unreal tools and making it easier to create large amounts of potion and item recipes.

• Full integration with Unreal's Gameplay Ability System
• Custom Network Prediction
• CommonUI menus and input
• Potion mixing system
• Advanced AI with perception memory, runtime changeable teams and full Behavior Tree support

Source code is available on github below.

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October 2024

Vox

What I worked on:

• GLTF importer
• Skeletal mesh animation system
• OpenGL backend
• Compute shader mesh generation
• PBR material lighting model

A game with custom engine and editor tools -- build voxel worlds, platform, and fight enemies! The game engine uses SDL3 for handling windows, input events, and filesystem i/o. Vox currently supports the openGl API. It is currently a work in progress, but you can check the progress on the GitHub page below.

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January 2025

Jellyship

What I worked on:

• Character Animation
• Rigging
• Programming
• Game Design

A group project for the Brackey's Game Jam 2024.2 created over one week. Sail through a storm and gather debris in order to repair your ship and survive!

• Co-op multiplayer
• Custom Jump Flood outline renderer (explained in a future post)

Playable here.

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September 2024

Curse of Grimfall

What I worked on:

• Solo Development
• Programming
• Character Art
• Animation
• Level Design

A 3D Zelda-like game written in Unreal Engine 5. I worked on all of the character design, animations, and programming. Sounds were composited from different recordings and Creative Commons sound files. Includes a demo level. Features include:

• Target lock-on system
• Special hitboxes for attacking and blocking - integrated with Unreal's animation editor
• Slot based equipment
• Full block pushing physics
• Data based buttons and switches
• Custom cameras for animated cutscenes

Source code is available on github below, as well as the packaged *.zip. (Currently Windows only!)

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November 2023

Godot Cannon Physics

What I worked on:

• Design
• Physics
• UI

Custom car physics extension for Godot 4.x, written for use in an unspecified game. Features a few sliders so you can play with the physics settings and a test area to drive around in. Uses Jolt Physics for collision and force solving, but custom math for the car parts.

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August 2023

Rea OpenGL

A C++ engine and OpenGL render pipeline.

Features

• Custom render pipeline
• Continuous collision detection
• Wavefront (*.obj) mesh loading
• Entity-component messaging system
• Font rendering

This engine uses SDL2 for managing window and input events, SDL-Image, and the FreeType library for generating and caching bitmaps from system font files.

Continous collision detection is based on the Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi model and my own implementation. Rea uses a custom OpenGL render pipeline and supports loading of custom GLSL 4 shaders.

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March 2022

Tether

What I worked on:

• C++ programming
• Physics design and programming
• Blueprint scripting
• Game Design
• Character Art
• 3D Modeling
• Animation
• Sound Effects

Tether was originally a game jam entry for the GMTK 2021 Game Jam. It is powered by Unreal Engine 4. Using the built-in raycasting and shape tracing functions of the engine, I programmed the collision and movement. I took special care to make sure that the movement mechanics and physics performed in a very specific manner, tweaking it so that everything feels smooth and fun. I recommend that you try out the platforming physics for yourself.

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December 2021

GJK for C#

This project is a 3D implementation of the Gilbert-Johnson-Keerthi distance algorithim, for use in Continuous Collision Detection physics simulations. It contains a simple gift wrapping algorithim for determining convex hulls, and can calculate the distance between two 3D objects, as well as calculate the shortest depenetration vector for resolving any overlaps. The interactive demo allows you to move a cube around in 3D space, rendering the Minkowski difference of the two closest shapes, as well as the generated simplex.

You can check out the presentation that I wrote (linked below), explaining the basic principles of the algorithim, and some solutions to more practical problems one might experience when implementing the algorithim, especially given its reliance on floating-point math.

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March 2021

Meritocracy Train

What I worked on:

• Concept Art
• Character Art
• Stills

An entry for the 2020 Global Game Jam, produced in 48 hours. The original entry page can be found here.
This entry was made with a team of seven, based on a theme revealed at the start of the jam. It runs in Unity.

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January 2020

Hearth

What I worked on:

• Game Design
• Character Art
• Animation

A 2019 entry for the Global Game Jam, produced in 48 hours. You can find the orignal entry page on the Global Game Jam website.
This entry was made with a team of five, based on a theme revealed at the start of the jam. It runs in the Godot Engine.

I also wrote an expanded game design document for use in a potential full-scale project, that you can download below.

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January 2019