Portfolio

Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver

UE5 | PC (Steam, Epic) | TBA | Project Site

Wu-Tang: Rise of the Deceiver is a co-op action RPG where players harness the mystical abilities of the Wu-Tang Clan to fight against the Deceiver, an entity invading and corrupting their home of Shaolin.

Role: Gameplay Programmer

• Implemented multiplayer combat systems using GAS (Gameplay Ability System) with a data-driven architecture for combat designers and artists:
  • Anim Notifies for Animation Montages
  • Blueprint Libraries
  • Hit Resolution System
  • Status Effects System
  • Multiplayer Scaling System
• Maintained and refined existing combat systems:
  • Input System
  • Hitbox and Hit Detection
  • Hitstop
  • Enemy AI Behavior Trees and AI Controllers
• Worked closely with designers to develop bespoke gameplay mechanics thematically based off of the Wu-Tang Clan members.

Silent Slayer

UE4 | PCVR (Steam), or Meta Quest (Meta Horizon Store) | Oct 2024 | Project Site

Silent Slayer is a VR precison-based puzzle horror game where the player must disarm a variety of traps around the coffins to get in and slay the vampires.

Role: Gameplay Programmer

• Prototyped concepts to build confidence in the game.
• Implemented encounter architecture and base puzzle interactions for designers to make variations.
• Refined the grabbing system based off of VR Expansion.

Lost Recipes

UE4 | Meta Quest (Meta Horizon Store) | Jan 2022 | Project Site

Lost Recipes is a VR cooking simulator that teaches historical recipes from ancient Greek, Chinese, and Mayan civilizations.

Role: Gameplay Programmer

• Took ownership of the following cooking systems mid-way through the project:
  • Dynamic mesh cutting and water mesh physics.
  • Osmosis, marination, spice rendering.
  • Dough systems.
• Implemented the following systems:
  • Multi-purpose spoon capable of stirring, scooping, pouring, and splitting depending on player intention and the interacted objects.
  • Plate and food stacking systems.
  • Pooling, state resetting, and respawning systems.
• Supported designers growing technical skills with Unreal blueprints.
• Optimized for the lower end Quest 1 VR system while primarily targeting the Quest 2 VR system.

Mission: It’s Complicated

Unity | PC (Steam, Itch.io) | Feb 2020 | Project Site

Mission: It’s Complicated is a superhero match-making visual novel featuring a diverse cast of characters that can get paired up in various romantic and platonic relationships.

Role: Gameplay Programmer

• Inherited and adapt proprietary chat system for a visual novel.
• Built out relationship and chat systems.

Deep Time Detectives

Unity | PCVR + PC Exhibit | September 2019 | Project Site

Deep Time Detectives is a two-player asymmetric cooperative experience developed as part of the Smithsonian’s hands-on pale­on­tology exhibit for their documentary film When Whales Walked: Journeys in Deep Time. The VR player acts as a field paleontologist, and the non-VR player acts as an offsite research expert to uncover a fossil and classify its evolutionary lineage.

Role: Gameplay Programmer

• Implemented fossil manipulation and brush interactions.
• Assisted with camera work for the VR rig and for the non-VR player.
• Assisted as tech support in installations across the country.

HistoryMaker VR

Unity | PCVR (Steam) | Aug 2020 | Project Site

HistoryMaker VR is an educational VR content creation tool where users can set up a scene with props, read a script off a teleprompter, and export the performance as a video.

Role: Gameplay Programmer

• Prototyped Ben Franklin as part the phase 1 grant.
• Implemented object tracking system for recording and in-game playback.