PROJECTS
NIGHTWEAVE
Nightweave is a 2D Stealth Platformer where you play as a shadow alchemist who is able to convert the shadows and darkness around you to enhance your movement or to use as weapons.
The game was developed as part of the Pirate Software Game Jam 15, where I worked in a team of 5 as a gameplay programmer.
Software used: Unity Game Engine, Visual Studio, GitHub Desktop
Programming Language: C#
I was in charge of the development for the Player Character, which included:
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Robust Player State Machine: to allow for easy switching of player states, allowing for easier debugging and implementation of new game mechanics.
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Player Movement Controls: implemented running, jumping and double jumping, dashing, crouching, etc. with a key emphasis on giving the player lots of accurate control, including responsive and snappy movement.
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Player Combat: implemented light and heavy shadow attacks, to allow the player the choice to be aggressive or defensive.
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Player Particle Effects: Created the player trail, double jump and heavy shadow attack particle effects to emphasize player's abilities and make them feel more powerful.
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Animation Tree Graph: Connected, edited and configured all the animation states together, ensuring smooth and accurate transitions between different animation states.
ONLINE MULTIPLAYER INFINITE SHOOTER
"Online Multiplayer Infinite Shooter" is a top down shooter, featuring an infinite game mode that challenges the player to last for as long as possible before the speed, spawn rate and aggressiveness of the enemies overwhelms the player. The game features a single player and an online multiplayer option.
This game was developed by myself as a solo practice project to learn how to implement online multiplayer in Unity via "Unity Netcode" and to understand in more detail how online multiplayer works in video games.
Software used: Unity Game Engine, Visual Studio, GitHub Desktop
Programming Language: C#
Features:
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Online Multiplayer + Difficulty Scaling: Player can host a session for other players to connect to via a randomly generated code. Game mode scales in difficulty based on how many players have joined, allowing for more balance and a bigger challenge amongst friends.
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Infinite Survival Game mode: Implemented a game mode featuring endless spawns of enemies that spawn faster and move quicker as time goes on. Enemies drop yellow orbs that increase the player's fire rate speed when picked up, increasing the fun and intensity of the game.
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Powerups: Player is able to pick up powerups that give a magnet effect to the player's bullets, or make the player shoot three bullets at once, with the ability to stack the powerup effects for more chaos.
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UI Statistics: Player is able to see a wide variety of user interface statistics in the corners of their screen, including how many enemies they defeated, their score, and more.
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Interactive Main Menu: Player moves around in Main Menu and can choose different options by colliding with objects, allowing for a more immersive experience.
AI ANIMAL ECOSYSTEM SIMULATION
"AI Animal Ecosystem Simulation" is a top down sandbox where you are able to spawn two categories of animals split into prey and predators, as well as the ability to spawn food for the prey to interact with.
This project was created as part of my dissertation for SAE Institute London University. The goal of the project was to research Artificial Intelligence in video games and learn how to implement them.
Software used: Unity Game Engine, Visual Studio
Programming Language: C#
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Animal AI: Animals have a state machine based on what their current condition are. They eat when hungry, drink when thirsty, and reproduce when former conditions are positive.
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Sandbox: Player is able to add prey or predators, or add food to see how the environment changes, allowing for experimentation.
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UI Statistics: Player is able to keep track of the current number of prey and predators, as well as the food.
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Procedural Generation: The position of the Prey, Predators, Food and Water are all randomised on every new play, giving a new scenario each time.
ESCAPE THE BATHTUB
"Escape The Bathtub!" is a 2D Maze Game where you play as a toy frog and navigate through the wall of bubbles while avoiding toy ducks to reach the end goal.
This project was made during college as part of the ICT class. This was officially my first ever game developed with Unity, and was my first introduction into C# coding.
Software used: Unity Game Engine, MonoScript, Piskel
Programming Language: C#
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Colourful 2D Pixel Art: My first attempt at drawing handmade pixel art through the use of the website "Piskel" to fit the cartoony and vibrant theme of the game.
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Smooth Movement: Implemented smooth movement to allow for easy traversal of maze.
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Score Counter + Bonus: Player can collect Rainbow Bubbles to increase their score. If player collects all bubbles in a level, grants player a bonus to encourage exploring the whole level.
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Lives and Timer: Player has limited lives that decrease when colliding with a toy duck to make game more challenging and to encourage patience and think-ahead. Player also had to complete a level within a certain time limit to encourage quick thinking.
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Objectives: Some levels require to complete a task to proceed to the finish line to prevent player from fully speeding through a level and to take their time.
SPACE SHOOTER
"Space Shooter" is a Space Invaders type clone where you use the left and right arrow keys to move your ship, and space bar to shoot lasers at the enemy ships trying to bypass your position.
This project was created during university as part of my degree. It utilises a custom game engine with SDL and OpenGL.
The main objective of this project was to learn C++, as well as libraries such as SDL and OpenGL to understand how to implement 3D models and graphics, as well as inputs for devices.
Software used: Visual Studio, SDL, OpenGL
Programming Language: C++
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Custom Game Engine: A custom game engine was used to develop the game utilising SDL and OpenGL, allowing for the import of 3D models and recognition of inputs from devices.
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C++ Vector Math: Implemented rotating moons around planets and game object movement for gameplay and for visual appeal.
