My Projects

DigiPen Projects

2022-Present

The Rolling Dead

The Rolling Dead is a 2D Top-Down Shooter made for my GAM150 DigiPen course. The player controls a man confined to a wheelchair, who must use the exaggerated blast of his arsenal of weapons to traverse a post-apocolyptic city and fight off the undead. The game is created using the C language and is built on a custom, object-oriented engine.

I served as Tech Lead on the game's team, CrowBar. My main contributions to this project consisted of low-level engine work, such as basic components and the game's renderer. I also worked on the game's behavior system, which contained a finite-state machine framework that allowed us to rapidly prototype and implement new enemy types.

2023 - Team CrowBar - Custom C Engine

Elementokens

2023/24 - Team Dopamine Releasing Software Production Corporation - Custom C++ Engine

Elementokens is a 2D, multiplayer, turn-based tactics strategy game. It was built on a custom C++ engine using OpenGL 4. I served as Producer on the team, in which I managed the project, ensured deadlines were met, and worked to keep team morale high.

In the game, players possess a team of wizards, who must traverse the map - typically an island - and gather 'Elementokens', magical stones imbued with spells, to cast the spells upon the other player, and win the game. The game included 30+ unique spells of varying elements.

Some of my most important contributions to the project include:

• The core engine, which included entity-component, object-oriented architecture.

• The game's renderer, which included a plethora of advanced shaders using GLSL, a highly scalable data-driven particle system using compute shaders, and an efficient text render system.

• A highly configurable custom scripting language that allowed for a data-driven spell system. Through this, rapid prototyping and implementation of highly diversified spells was possible.

• Efficient systems for serialization of all game content, including maps, modes, narrative content, and spells.

• Data-driven system for managing multiple player 'pawns', including variables such as health, spell cards, and status effects.

An Omen in the Mirror

2024/25 - Team Clockworks - Unreal Engine 5.4

Personal Projects

Trajan Engine

2025 - Solo Project - C++

Trajan is a 2D ECS game engine currently in development. Features include:

• An extensive logging system, with multiple severity levels and convenient formatting

• An easy to use editor with extensive GUI developed using dear imgui

• A modern OpenGL 4 renderer with easy to use debug draw tools

Each aspect of the engine, from the logging, to the ECS system, to even the window handler, are all separate namespaces that can each be used on their own. You don't even need to use the editor! Trajan is meant to be a highly versatile, performant game engine meant for rapid prototyping. Currently in development and not exactly usable, I'm hoping to get a release candidate prepared for late Summer 2025. For now, feel free to follow the development on the engine's GitHub repo.

Game Jam Projects

2018-2022

TERETINE

The Death of Normal Wolf

Craniux: Post-Mortem

Mek & Rakk

TERETINE was made in 7 days for GBJAM 6 and was released August 24, 2018. The Jam posed an interesting requirement that games maintain the original resolution of a GameBoy, as well as only have 4 colors on screen at a time. The game placed 46th of almost 100 entries in the Level Design category. The game is made using Clickteam Fusion 2.5.

During this project, I learned about creating platformers, as well as created systems for dynamic character upgrades and camera tricks that mimicked the original Metroid.

Metrics: 186 Views, 37 Downloads

Craniux: Post-Mortem was made in 1 month for the 'HawkZombie's Halloween Birthday Jam!'. It released on October 21st, 2018. The game is a randomly generated rogue-lite dungeon crawler. The game is made using Clickteam Fusion 2.5.

The game would achieve 2nd Place during the game Jam. During the making of it, I learned implementation of random generation systems.

Metrics: 131 Views, 20 Downloads

The Death of Normal Wolf was made in 7 days for a now delisted game jam. It was released on June 5th, 2019. The game is a side-scrolling, western-themed shooter with time dilation mechanics. The player can slow down time to shoot bullets out of the air. The game is made using Clickteam Fusion 2.5.

It did not win the jam, but it was an important project for me, as I gained a lot of knowledge when trying to create the time dilation mechanic, as well as the systems design knowledge gained by having three different resources in the game (health, ammo, and 'slow-down stamina').

Metrics: 57 Views, 10 Downloads

Mek & Rakk was made in 7 days for the '100 Dollar Game Jam'. It released on June 28th, 2019. The game is a 2D top-down shooter, set in the far future. The player must infiltrate a corporation's tower to take over the company. The player controls two characters, Mek & Rakk. The player must switch between the two characters to stealth-fully infiltrate the tower and take down the robotic enemies inside. The game is made using Clickteam Fusion 2.5.

The game did not win the Jam, but was super important for my game design abilities. It was the first time I had made a puzzle game, and they had to be designed around the player controlling multiple characters.

Metrics: 71 Views, 17 Downloads

2018 - Solo Project - Clickteam Fusion 2.5

2018 - Solo Project - Clickteam Fusion 2.5

2019 - Solo Project - Clickteam Fusion 2.5

2019 - Solo Project - Clickteam Fusion 2.5