Software Engineer

Magic Movers is a game where you team up with a friend and play as wizards trying to tidy up and furnish a new apartment. Click here to play with a buddy. The game runs on AirConsole, so you'll need a phone for each of you to play. This game was part of Global Game Jam 2019, and you can click here to view the game entry.

• Created furniture prefabs and their behaviors.
• Worked with sound designer to add all sound into the game.

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Shroommates is third-person stealth game where users play as a sentient mushroom trying to grow in secret in a UCSC student's apartment. The mushroom can grow by consuming food and staying out of direct sunlight. Players must adapt to different sizes, as size dynamically alters speed, hiding ability, and places you can get to. Complete objectives while trying to keep out of sight of the AI human! Click here to sneakily sneak into the repository. I won't tell anyone you were there.

• Leading and delegating tasks to six other programmers alongside producers.
• Quickly implemented working temporary AI sufficient for prototyping purposes within a few days. Currently working on newer, more robust AI, who is controlled with an improved behavior tree.
• Implementing game behaviors as needed in various areas, such as:
  • State management: programming win and lose conditions.
  • Game objects: programming coin and various trigger box interactions.
  • Dialog: programming simple dialog.
• Idenified, troubleshooted, and later explained to some team members Git issues and their solutions.
• Point person for communication and technical QA with professors.

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MinShmup is a simple, minimalistic shoot-em up for Android. The intention of the project is for me to learn in-depth about and play with various methods and functions libGDX has to offer through a simple game. I also want to make a simple game feel amazing to play, taking inspriration from grapefrukt games' juicy-breakout. My goal as a designer is to reimagine a simple game that feels amazing to play. Click here to view the repo. Click here to read the wiki and dev blog.

• Programming engaging visual feedback for some in-game actions through a camera shake manager.
• Getting hit and destroying enemies adds “trauma”, which the manager uses to scale both rotational and translational shake in a natural and impactful way.
• Fully takes advantage of libGDX's object pooling system to handle disposable objects, thus preventing any memory leaks and decreasing overall memory usage.
• More libGDX methods to be implemented to optimize and juice up the game even further in the future.

A board game based off of the recent popular trend of battle royale games and a systems design exercise. You've seen the thousands of PUBG and Fortnite knock-offs for PC and smartphones, now check out the board game! Manage a team of three units as you try to win that chicken dinner! Each unit has up to ten actions points to use to move around the map, open chests for loot, and shoot other players. Last team standing wins! View the presentation here.

• Balanced reaction point system, which helps units getting shot at by granting them immediately spendable action points to prevent immediate death.
• Balanced damage, range, accuracy (determined with die roll), and usage cost for 4 different weapons.
• Programmed interactive game core loop using Machinations. Download the XML here, and open it within Machinations.
• Transferred ideas, rules, and mechanics to visually clean documents for presentation.

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A rhythm-based fighting game prototype. Play as fighters from various genres of music in a musical beatdown. Players are incentivized to hit on the beat to deal more damage, rather than hitting off-beat and dealing minimal damage. This game was three-week project for a senior game design studio class, just like Shroommates. At the end of the quarter, the team voted to move on with Shroommates and abandon Beat 'Em Up! Click here to view the repository.

• Led and delegating tasks to a team of programmers and artists.
• Implemented player attacks, movement, and added animations from images provided by artists.

A tabletop game with a satirical look at international politics meant to represent our view of the utter insanity, childish incomprehensiblilty, and extensive cheating in the world. It is a four-player game where each player takes on the role of a country's leader and become the world's superpower through use of war, famine, disease, and politicians. Cheating is explicitly allowed and encouraged.

• Collaborated on game design and balance.

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Food Now! is an Android app that aims to solve the problem of indecisive friends choosing a place to eat by being the final say in picking restaurants. The app takes in everyone's food preferences, a distance and price maximum, and then returns a random restaurant that respects the distance and price limit while best fulfilling at least one of those preferences. Created in Android Studio with the Yelp Fusion API. Check out the repository here and download the app on the Play Store!

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A personal transportation request app for Android. Pick a contact or input a phone number, add an optional flavor message, and send a pick up request text to your contact! Text body also includes a Google Maps pin of your location so your contact can easily route to you via Google Maps. Created this app one weekend because I was at home with nothing better to do (who does homework?). Transport yourself to the repository here.

• Used Google URL shortener on the Google Maps location pin link to keep text messages short.

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A book donation app prototype for Android. Users can view a student's profile to see what books are on their wishlist and what genres they enjoy reading. Users can then either donate a book they have, or purchase a book from Amazon for them. Books are sent to the student's school. Read some code at the repository here. Click the Devpost link for win proof.

• Created main and student profile activities.
• Handled transitions between activities.
• 2/2 placed hackathons!

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