Professional Projects
Software I've created as part of a professional team
Project Arcanum
Wonderstorm
Unreleased
- Created animation notify state for target focusing; designers and animators use this to fine tune how long into enemies' animations the player is targeted
- Augmented Tasks from Gameplay Ability System plugin to allow design to configure distance/time lerps. Also added improved customizations, such as for collision offsets (used in melee attacks) and navmesh restriction
- Added mouse pointer targeting, improving abilities and providing technical support for ping system
- Implemented root status effect, including implementing an animation root motion scaling factor
- Debugged various issues, such as failing dialog transitions and crashes
- Creating new systems that can be used and expanded throughout the project's lifecycle
- Prioritizing and balancing different design requests, bugs, and code cleanup opportunities
- Balancing configuration vs. runtime complexity to improve the player experience
- C++ and Unreal Engine 4
- Gameplay Ability System, an Unreal plugin
- A proprietary Racket-based configuration system
Rogue Company Elite
Hi-Rez Studios (First Watch)
Unreleased
- Created a system with UE4's UMG to allow stat bars for weapons and mods to be combined and fine-tuned by design
- Wrote a Python script to automatically play matches unatended to try to catch a low repro-rate crash that occurred at the end of some matches
- Interface with Android and iOS API to display battery life
- Various gameplay bug fixes
- Unreal Engine 4 (and interaction between native c++ and blueprints)
- How to write good documentation and tooling for designers
- The challenges of testing in a mobile environment
- C++ and Unreal Engine 4
- A bit of Python
- Visual Studio, JIRA, Perforce
Paladins
Hi-Rez Studios (Evil Mojo)
More Details
- Azaan. This character is a tank with a multi-wall ability, and a teleport projectile ultimate with many animation states. For more details, click here!
- Vatu. This character has some technically cool abilities - a chain teleport, a two-press ultimate, and sticky bombs that adhere to surfaces (and will drop from shields). For more details, click here!
- Built (and improve!) new Trials of the Realm system. These quests are nested in sections that open up at certain time intervals each patch. I was the primary programmer for this system, so I programmed the UI components, progress tracking, unlock/in progress/lock states, and so forth. Details? Here.
- An automated script for setting up each patches' challenges for TotR. This helps save our designers time and prevent possible bugs.
- Investigate, debug, and fix crash reports from live clients
- Fix live exploits that allow players to cheat - including hacking items and using unreleased characters - and other bugs
- Unreal Engine!
- Accounting for latency in a client-server environment.
- Documentation is important to both make and consult.
- Dealing with legacy code in supporting a game that's several years old
- How to effectively communicate and work together with others in a remote office environment
- C++ and UnrealScipt for Unreal Engine 3
- A bit of SQL
- Visual Studio (using debugging tools more extensively than I have before)
- JIRA, Perforce
SEGA Heroes
Demiurge Studios
- Created an extensible server tool to refund accidental purchases
- Implemented abilities (in reusable pieces) and connected animations for 10 new characters (plus tweaked some old ones)
- Various bug fixes and non-character features (ex: additional UI features, JITT, more precise and fair energy regen)
- The importance of communication on a cross-discipline team. In particular, character animations required a lot of artist input
- Thoughtful design decisions in creating a new API that others will use and contribute to
- Working on a smaller team means more responsibility and owning more tasks (a good thing!)
- C#, Go, C++
- Perforce, Git, JIRA
- A whole lotta JSON
Buildpacks
Pivotal
- Developed a wide range of language buildpacks (Node, Dotnet, Ruby) for compiling various cloud-based apps
- Contributed to the implementation of the first prototype V3 buildpack
- Updated and debugged testing pipeline corresponding to new features
- Responded to community issues
- Pair programming professionally - how to verbalize ideas and listen to others'
- How to explain my work. We rotated pairs everyday, so ~50% of the time I had to explain the previous work to someone new to it
- Agile development - my first exposure to standups, postmortems, and sprints
- Go and a bit of Ruby
- Bash (a lot of experience using CLI's)
- Git, Slack, Pivotal Tracker, Concourse
Personal Projects
Software I've created for fun or open-ended class projects
Darkfire Mod
For Slay the Spire
Team: Yours Truly
- Developed a new character (The Darkfire) with a new deck and mecahnics (ex: add random "flames" to hand)
- Progress is slow due to school and job search, but I'll be adding more cards (and relics) when I can
- I did the card art, though you can see I'm not an artist
- Currently: 1 new character with 13 new cards
- Beginning something is the hardest part - I spent a lot of time getting the first card working, then things got much easier
- How to follow wikis and documentation closely (since there aren't people to ask questions)
- It's incredibly fun to make something I can show to people and watch them play
- Java. I also used a Java decompiler (to reference game code) for the first time
- ModTheSpire and BaseMod, popular modding tools
- Git
Nekromanteia
2D stealth game
Team: 2 devs, 2 artists, 1 producer, 1 designer
- Behavior chunks for customizable enemy patrols - designers can set movement locations, rotations, and the speeds of each action
- Dialog and checkpoint systems
- Reset and pause functionality
- Lighting to visually indicate when a player is in enemy's sights
- Animation state transitions (including directional states) and animation events
- How to effectively utilize Unity's animator and manage animation states
- I love coding to enable others' work (specifically, making animations work and giving designers tools)
- Knowing other dev's code means we can help each other debug
- Usually everyone works great together, but, if someone doesn't, it's worth a conversation to try to fix things
- Unity (C# scripts)
- JIRA and Trello
- Git
Diet Clash
Android App to manage eating habits
Team: 3 Devs
- Database backend for tracking goals and servings, as well as frontend for displaying stored & entered info
- Locator for nearby grocery stores (using Google Places API)
- Tracking goal progress, managing & updating multiple goals of varying durations
- Development and testing on mobile
- How to publish apps to Google Play
- Creating and managing Google API Keys
- Java
- SQLite
- Google Places API
- Android Studio
- Git
Visual Novel Library
Team: 4 Devs
- Created "scenes" and dialog options that can load other scenes from JSON input
- User can specify background music for each scene - will continue or restart across scenes appropriately
- Can be imported and integrated to other projects
- I did the art for this, but it works with other (perhaps better) art
- Effective resource management - how to keep track of memory even when there's a lot of resources
- C++ (with SDL2)
- Git
Tsuro
Team: 3 Devs
- A digital representation of the game Tsuro
- Internal data representation of tiles
- Move legality enforcement
- Enemy AI
- Client and server capabilities for distributed players
- Tests
- Code is private because this was a school project, but please reach out with any questions
- Importance of future-proofing code; clean code makes future additions easier
- How to deal with changing specifications
- Python3
- Git
About Me
I graduated from Northeastern University in 2020 with a degree in Computer Science & Game Development. I now work at Wonderstorm as a Gameplay Engineer - you can see more about my past and present work here. When I'm not programming, I enjoy Dungeons & Dragons (as a player and a DM - you can check out some of my homebrew campaigns here), running, and gaming with friends.
If you make games and are looking for a programmer, send me an email or give me a call. Want more info to help make your decision? Check out my Github, my resume, or email me with any questions.