Featured Projects

Teaching club members how to utilize game development tools such as Unity, C#, and GitHub throughout three semesters

Roles: Instructor

As a General Officer, and eventually President, of the Video Game Development Club at NCSU, I conducted workshops to teach our members skills for using Unity and GitHub. These workshops included beginner tutorials on setting up a work environment, introductions to Unity features such as the input system and UI, and examples of how to create different 3D and 2D game mechanics.

My Responsibilities Included

• Preparing and conducting 2-hour workshops once per month, each with an average attendance of 20 members

• Assisting club members outside of workshops if they ran into issues while developing their own projects

• Creating written outlines detailing everything covered in the workshop

Defeat waves of enemies taking over your living room with this mobile AR tower defense game inspired by The Clone Wars

Roles: Gameplay Programmer, UI Programmer, Systems Designer

Using Google's ARCore SDK for Unity, I helped develop an Android app that allows the user to create and play a tower defense level in AR space. The user can place enemy spawn points and different tower types to populate the level, as well as waypoints to create paths for enemies to follow. New towers are available as players earn credits from defeating waves of enemies.

My Responsibilities Included

• Learning and utilizing Google's ARCore SDK for Unity to use real-world planes in AR simulation and allow the user to select a desired plane

• Designing an adaptable system for making new AR objects

• Creating tower objects with different mechanics, such as ones that deal AOE damage, slow down enemies, or target the furthest enemy

• Designing particle systems for tower radii and spawn selection

• Creating UI elements that allow the user to select AR objects to place

Fulfill orders while putting out fires, fixing queso machines, and avoiding flying ingredients in this deteriorating VR taco truck

Roles: Gameplay Programmer

Developed in a weekend for Global Game Jam 2020. The player must fulfill taco and nacho orders while also repairing a deteriorating taco truck. Ingredients must be prepared before being combined, fires will have to be extinguished, and queso machines will require attention as the player frantically tries to complete the job. This game was developed for the Oculus Rift, Oculus Rift S, and Oculus Quest systems.

My Responsibilities Included

• Programming the ability for players to create tacos and nachos with different ingredients

• Modifying a refill system developed by another team member so the appropriate meshes appear

• Managing the GitHub repository and merging feature branches

Networked game engine built from the ground-up in C++

Roles: Sole Developer

I learned the fundamentals of game engines by developing my own with C++ in CSC 481 - Game Engine Foundations. Concepts taught through this project included multithreaded loop architecture, networking, event handling, and scripting. My engine is designed for expansion and allows for the creation of different types of games.

My Responsibilities Included

• Implementing a REQ-REP networking model with the 0MQ library to allow multiple clients to connect to a server's game instance

• Designing and implementing a entity-component game object model for different object types within the engine

• Implementing game time so that all movement-based actions in the engine can be sped up, slowed down, or replayed at will

• Creating an event management system for various engine features

• Utilizing the Duktape and Dukglue libraries to implement scripting capabilities with JavaScript

• Developing two small games with the engine: a multiplayer side-scrolling platformer and a single-player arcade shooter