Student Projects

Skills on display:

• Animation blueprinting
• Combat system with combos and special attacks
• Pickups
• Weapon switching

The video above showcases the mechanics I programmed for a student project named Candypocalypse, a hack n' slash platform game as part of our studio course. I was the gameplay programmer and overall Tech Lead on the project, in charge of programming the primary gameplay mechanics.

Skills on display:

• Material transitions
• Niagara particle systems
• Sequencer (camera shots, transitions, etc.)

The hero asset shown above is a combination of an armillary sphere and a crystal ball; combined to form a sort of "armillary crystal". Consists of a brass frame with movable rings around a purple crystal orb. The asset transitions from a tarnished state into a polished state through the use of particle systems to simulate magic.

Skills on display:

• Modular asset production/integration
• Spline-based model integration (pipes, barricades, etc.)
• In-engine lighting using RTX
• Set-piece construction in engine
• Sequencer

The set piece above is a castle chamber reworked into a magical boiler room; its hero asset being the titular "castle machine" at its center. Pipes are twisted into brass boilers that power the machine; carts filled with coals that are shoveled into the boilers for fuel. These brass pipes breach into the walls & ceiling of the chamber, with cables winding into parts unknown.

Skills on display:

• Blueprinting
• Sound mixing
• Sequencer

This project was to create a simple game using pre-existing assets, with the purpose of showcasing my blueprinting skills to create unique mechanics. In this short demo, the player is tasked with escaping a collapsing ruin before the timer hits zero, in which they may choose a multitude of routes in order to reach their destination. Aiding them is a simple "hookshot" like gun that allows the player to shoot towards glowing yellow points on the map.