Icopult

Icopult, being developed under Kintsugi Interactive, LLC., is a physics-based puzzle game based around highlighting the US housing crisis.

I am the Lead Engineer on the project, responsible for the gameplay and UI/UX programming, as well as setting style standards and handling code reviews. I also act as Head of Production and COO of Kintsugi Interactive overall, managing project goals and tasks, team morale, cross-team communication, and productivity.

SIGGRAPH ScavengeAR

This project was designed to be played at SIGGRAPH 2018 and 2019, using AR to encourage people to explore the convention center and network with others at the conference. Players must find and scan "Sigglet" markers scattered throughout the conference to fill their notebooks.

In 2019, ScavengeAR reached over 1000 active players during the event.

The Knowledge We Seek

The Knowledge We Seek was my senior design project, and the most complex game project I have worked on thus far. It is an asymmetric cooperative puzzle game involving two people, with one player on a tablet and the other wearing a VR headset.

I worked on both sides in varying capacities, including, but not limited to, the tablet side's inventory system and the VR side's rotating maze sections. I was also the primary person responsible for ensuring that designs were relatively safe for VR, to minimize the likelihood of nausea in players.

Karma Counselor

This was an introductory project for the course, so we were only given a week to come up with the concept and create the entire game. For this project, we were assigned to create a game around a given theme; in our case, the theme we were given was "Reincarnation." I set up the UI and connected it to a partially written backend, then filled in any missing backend functionality.

We chose to represent reincarnation by karma that carries over between lives. In this game, you play as a "Karma Counselor" to an AI-controlled spirit. Your role is to offer advice by picking actions from the given options, which will influence the spirit towards the actions you choose over time, though the spirit will not necessarily always follow your advice. The goal is to maximize the amount of karma that the spirit gets across 5 lifetimes.

Sneak Out

For this project, we were assigned to create a game where the gameplay could only use one button for input, and no mouse controls. I led the design process and also wrote all code except the basic sound effects and the timer. I was also responsible for setting up the scene and putting everything together in Unity. We had two weeks total to concept the game and create both beta and final builds.

In this game, you play as a teenager trying to sneak out of the house to go to a party. You have to reach the bottom of the stairs quietly, but some of the steps are creaky and have to be avoided. You also can't skip too many steps at a time. There is a noise meter which allows for a certain number of mistakes before failing, but the final score is based on both accuracy of the steps' timing and combo of good steps taken in a row. Bad steps also detract from the total point score.

Memory Game

This project assigned us to create a game designed to appeal specifically to one person, who would then playtest it. We chose a mutual friend of ours who likes simple but challenging games and cute art. My partner on this project and I were both programmers, so he decided to work on art while I did all of the programming and setup in Unity. I also created simple art assets for the items.

In this game, you play as a landlord of a small apartment complex, where the tenants have new requests each day. To put a small twist on usual memory games, we decided to make the memory sequence add new things to the front of the chain each round, instead of the end. The order of tenants appearing and items requested is randomized, so every playthrough is different. The player wins when the entire building is full and all requests by all tenants have been fulfilled.

Blind Sided

In this project, we were assigned to create a multiplayer game, either as a party game or a folk game. Both sides were also required to have symmetric design. We also returned to it for a second project, where we were instructed to add "juice" to the game, adding various improvements and polish. I was one of two programmers on this project, but I also created several of the art assets. I also set up many of the particle effects.

This game is a two-player twin-stick shooter, where both players are invisible and must try to find, and kill, each other. Shooting your gun reveals your position, and shooting "light bomb" obstacles reveals the position of both players. The game makes each player try to guess where the other player is, while using mental mapping and mind tricks to hide their own character's position.

iJail
Class Project

Created for a game class. I worked in a group of 6 as the main programmer, with one other programmer. We came up with the game design together, and then I wrote the code for all aspects except the enemy AI. I also contributed heavily to the GUI design and creation.

Recall Alert System
Hackathon Project

Created for PhillyCodeFest 2014 in a group of 3. I did the backend programming, working with the official government API for the alert announcements. Finishing the basic functionality early, I then worked briefly with the Facebook API to connect it to a Facebook app.

Home
Game Jam Project

Created for Global Game Jam 2014. We had a group of 5, in which I did all the programming. I also helped to critique the art and writing as requested, and taught someone in the group with no experience how to do basic sound editing, as well as how to find open-source music to use.

I Love You, Jesse Doe
Game Jam Project

Created for Global Game Jam 2013. I worked on a team of 3 to collectively come up with the design, doing rapid prototyping with materials available to us for the game jam in order to refine it. Once we settled on a finalized design and rule set, I created simple art for the game cards and board.

Pokémon Database
Class Project

Created for a database class. I worked with one other person to create a database in SQL*Plus. We chose to model the world of the first generation Pokemon games. For the purposes of the class, we heavily reduced the data we included, but we modeled most of the major relationships, as partially visible above.

Tempora
Class Project

Created for a software engineering class project. Because I had the strongest art background in the group (4 people total), I created all the background art. I also acted as group leader, making sure that everyone was making proper progress on their work, and led the game design process as well.