Year: 2024

Company: The Gang

Genre: Mini-Games, Simulation, Marketing

Technologies: Roblox Studio, Luau

Description: A Roblox game where players take on the duties of an IKEA employee. Players participate in mini-games that replicate daily work tasks, earn experience, and progress through roles to advance their in-game careers.

Role: Game Programmer

Responsible for implementing core gameplay functionality, with a focus on developing mini-games. I was in charge of coding some mini-games, including the food mini-game, and also contributed to the development and refinement of other game mechanics across the project.

Year: 2024

Company: The Gang

Genre: Mini-Games, Tycoon, Marketing

Technologies: Roblox Studio, Luau

Description: Shrek Swamp Tycoon is a Roblox game where players help restore Shrek’s beloved swamp. By dragging magical objects, you earn in-game coins to rebuild and expand the swamp. As you progress, you can construct homes for Shrek, Donkey, Fiona, and Gingy, and complete obby challenges to earn exciting rewards. You can also win various Shrek-themed in-game UGC items to customize your character.

Role: Game Programmer

I helped develop various key gameplay features, including the tycoon system that lets players spend in-game currency to create new buildings, an animation system for building construction, and player feedback for world interactions. I also fixed bugs and addressed connection and performance issues.

Company: Personal Project

Genre: Puzzle, Platformer, Side Scroller

Technologies: Unity, C#, HDRP

Description: Bloky is a 2.5D puzzle game where you merge and unmerge with "Elementals" to change size and shape, while interacting with various elements like fire, wate, and grass to explore and solve puzzles..

Role: Game Designer and Programmer

I handled most aspects of the game, focusing on concept, gameplay, and code. On the technical side, I programmed the project from scratch, optimized performance to handle complex puzzle interactions with many game objects, implemented a rules-based interaction system (for example, grass "burns" when touched by fire), configured the HDRP Pipeline with the game's artist, and created or modified shaders and VFX. In game design, I designed and iterated on core mechanics and level layouts, collaborated with the artist to ensure visuals supported gameplay, refined controller inputs for intuitive interaction, and conducted playtest sessions to gather feedback. I also contributed wherever else the project required.

Company: Semaeopus

Genre: Stealth, Hacking

Technologies: Unity, C#, Lua

Description: Off Grid is a third-person game with stealth and hacking gameplay, where the player makes use of data and devices in the environment rather than weapons and combat. Players need to extract data, unlock secure doors, hack devices, and trace data flows while avoiding guards by creatively distracting them. The game also features extensively moddable content, encouraging players to create new and interesting levels.

Role: Main Programmer and Game Designer

My main responsibilities included programming various gameplay mechanics, NPC AI reactions and behaviors (to the player and level elements) using Unity’s native C# as well as Lua scripting to define these behaviors, creating tools to facilitate game development workflows, and optimizing game performance through profiling and code improvements. Additionally, though to a lesser extent, I contributed to designing key gameplay mechanics and level layouts to enhance the overall player experience.

Year: 2017

Company: Nerd Monkeys

Genre: Endless Runner, Casual

Technologies: Unity, C#, Android

Description: Lab Run is a fast-paced, side-scrolling endless runner where the player swings between test tubes, dodges hazards like acid, picks up power-ups, and chains combos to traverse a collapsing lab environment. Unlock a variety of funny-looking outfits and items as you run for survival.

Role: Main Programmer and Game Designer

I worked as the main programmer on this project, contributing to all aspects of the game, such as gameplay mechanics, level generation, UI implementation, and performance optimization to ensure the game ran smoothly on both Android and iOS platforms. I also contributed as a game designer by helping ensure the game remained engaging and challenging without becoming frustrating, to support this, I wrote code to automatically generate a detailed spreadsheet covering all possible gameplay variations.