Professional Game Projects

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Tools Used: Unreal Engine 5, Unreal Visual Blueprint Scripting, Microsoft Excel, Jira

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Designed a Quick Time Event (QTE) System in Unreal Engine 5 that utilized different user inputs to launch their rocket into space: it worked with key presses, taps, or repetitive presses.
The QTE System gave the player feedback on success or failure.
Worked as a Quality Assurance Engineer to create test cases to ensure a bug-free and overall good player experience.
Played through the game thoroughly and made an excel spreadsheet of passes and fails on features.

Tools Used: Ren’Py, Python, Excel, Jira

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Created the Lore System: it held important narrative information on the character’s lineage and the enemies within the game. It utilized narrative elements and UI elements to create an interactive “book” for the player to peruse throughout their adventure.
Tested and fixed the Combat System: the system was very simplistic, but the balance was off as exploits existed within the system. Created checks and fixed the code to finalize the system.
Tested and fixed graphical issues: worked with the art team to implement and fix asset issues within the game as to ensure a pleasant experience for the player.
Worked closely with the narrative team to implement their narrative into the visual novel and meet their requirements.
Created test builds for myself and other members of the team to playtest and uploaded them into our drive as to receive feedback.
Polished the accessibility fonts within the Ren’Py engine to allow a more accessible game for those who need it.
Coded the game in Ren’Py using Python and external libraries.

Tools: Unity2D, Unity, Jira

In development

Redesigned the enemy combat and movement systems in Unity Engine: allowed the 2D enemies to move on and between platforms without looping infinitely into a wall or falling off the ledge to their doom.
When redesigning, created an easily reproducible, easily scalable, and easy to follow code for other programmers and designers.
Created tooltips and added the precedent to use tooltips to explain to designers what the values are for and how adjusting them affects the enemies’ behaviors.

Projects:

Systems Designer/Level Designer/Gameplay Engineer/Game Designer

Tools Used: Unreal Engine 5, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Jira

Created a Puzzle System in Unreal Engine 5 that allowed the player to push buttons to open doors: the buttons either had to be held down with boxes or stepped on by the player.
Created an Interaction System: allowed the player to pick up keys or boxes for use within the level, whether it be keys or boxes.
Created a Simon Says System: it stored color values and matched player input to the colors, and it gave feedback to the player upon being correct or incorrect.
Created technical documentation for systems and how the systems interact with one another, which included variables.
Created technical documentation such as Game Design Documents, Technical Design Documents, and Testing Documents.
Worked with Jira to calculate time and how to manage resources for game production.

Systems Designer/Level Designer/Gameplay Engineer/Game Designer

This was developed with Unreal Engine 5

Designed a level utilizing assets and systems to allow for the player to complete the level: this level contained puzzles to get a key to complete the game.
Designed an interaction system between the player and a button: the player had to hold down a button with a box to open a hidden door where the final puzzle was hidden.
Designed a puzzle system in which the player had to press colored buttons in a certain order based on clues placed throughout the level.
Worked with the team which consisted of other members of the class to put together a polished game with little to no bugs by managing our time and resources, but with us also having plenty of communication.

Technical Documents:

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This was developed with Unreal Engine 5

Designed a level utilizing assets and systems to allow for the player to complete the level: this level contained puzzles that involved buttons and keys.
The document broke down variables needed and the communication between the systems.

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This was a theoretical systems design used with a given information

Created the core gameplay systems necessary and all of the supporting systems.
Created a core gameplay loop using the information provided, which was a diagram.
Created the necessary variables for each system component, and described what it managed.
Created diagrams for each system.
Created the communications and variables necessary for each system communication.