I joined the High-Speed Hominids team as one of the main technical developers. My primary task for the majority of development was implementing the track system, including the spawning and culling of rooms for each player, as well as the fine-tuning of enemy spawning and tweaking of the conditions for locked doors. Towards the end of development, I helped finish various card abilities and got the track teleportation to be a working, complete system by our release date. 

This project was the focus of my Fundamentals of Computer Graphics class at the University of Minnesota. I had to implement everything from scratch starting with a 3D vector class. I've implemented of the Phong reflection model to allow different materials to react to light differently, with spheres and triangles as primitives one can define a scene with.

My most recent addition was the introduction of reflective surfaces and transparent objects with light refraction.

I joined the Remnants team as one of the main technical developers. Based on discussions with the project lead and design notes describing the player character and weapon abilities, I created the player controller and all of its default and weapon abilities. I also made the first draft of the demon and witch enemy classes and the enemy base class they both derive from. Towards the end of development I helped make modifications to the code and tweaked values on the nearly-finished enemy classes to shift the gameplay toward what I thought would evoke desired feelings in players. 

This was the final project for my Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class at the University of Minnesota. I worked on this project with classmate Fahia Tabassum. After researching the history and modern practices of adversarial AI methods, we settled on a minimax search with alpha-beta pruning that uses the total value of material on the board and a piece-square table that interpolates between a "mid-game" state and an "end-game" state based on the amount of material still on the board. The interface and third AI option are from github user lhartikk's chess AI repo. I implemented our new algorithm in JavaScript and added the option to switch the AI players on both the white and black sides.

This was an assignment for my Animation and Planning in Games class at the University of Minnesota. The first arm demo and spider demo both use the CCD method of inverse kinematics. I first got this algorithm working in 2D and then adapted it to 3D for the arm demo.

I then repurposed this 3D implementation for the spider demo, for which I tweaked movement values and joint limits to make the spider’s limbs move more naturally. I created a script for the spider player character that would redefine the endpoints for the limbs based on its movement, and I used raycasts from above the spider to find points of the correct height so the spider could look as if it naturally climbs up slopes, which is a feature I was really excited to include as it does a lot for the feel of the spider.

The second arm demo uses the FABRIK method of inverse kinematics, and was created to test another popular algorithm of inverse kinematics.

I was project manager and a lead programmer on Arpeggio. I also came up with the gameplay concept, which I pitched in front of the club using a PowerPoint and a small proof-of-concept demo made in Unity. The chief idea behind the gameplay is that spatial RPG combat on a continuous field more easily allows for expression of the unique characteristics of characters through their actions.

As this project was done during the height of the pandemic, we were restricted to only online forms of communication for the project. We met via Zoom twice a week, and as project manager I would check in with programmers, artists and designers on the project, discussing their progress and next steps.

Fox Treadmill Adventure is a personal project that started out of me wanting to learn more about the coding of platformer physics and collision detection. I used some of Unity’s collision detection in the form of its colliders, but coded all of the collision resolution and platformer physics myself, which was a great learning experience for me. Then, based on the idea of a “single room” theme I saw used in a game jam, I created the treadmill mechanic. I focused on creating interesting interactions with the treadmill and the environment, which is how I created the clouds and platforms suspended by swinging ropes. 

This was an assignment for my Animation and Planning in Games class at the University of Minnesota. I worked on this project with classmate Thien Nguyen. I first worked on assigning the UV values to the mesh vertices correctly so the texture assigned to the cloth would display correctly. After this, I worked on tweaking the values for the physics simulation implemented by my partner to stabilize and smooth the simulation. I also added some extra assets and music for fun. 

This was an assignment for my Animation and Planning in Games class. I worked on the project with classmate Skylar Volden. My main task was programming and troubleshooting the A* search algorithm to allow for nearly instant pathfinding along a probabilistic roadmap generated by code from the class instructor. 

This was the final project for my class Programming Interactive Computer Graphics and Games at the University of Minnesota. I was tasked with implementing the functionality of sending raycasts into the 3D environment from the drawn points on the screen. Using those raycasts, I had to project the drawn points onto the skybox or the ground plane mesh and redraw the drawing at that point in the 3D world using various matrix transformations. Modifying the ground mesh meant taking these projected points and modifying individual vertices of the ground mesh. The toon shader for the ground is one we programmed in an earlier project.