A 2D platformer about a sleep deprived student, Hallucinating their way through the last day of finals week. I Can't Sleep was created for University of Irvine's Game Development Club's Game Jam during the Fall of 2021. The game's central theme is overcoming odds and defying destiny as you conquer each boss.

• Team Size:  4

• Engine: Unity

• Language: C#

• Role(s): 

  • Lead Level Designer

    • Designed and Implemented 1 full scale level and 1 Boss Room.

    • Designed and Implemented Level Features like traps and Basic Enemy routes.

  • Lead Combat Designer

    • Collaborated with another designer and refined the Players Weapon.

    • Developed damage dealing mechanic for Basic Enemies.

    • Implemented Enemy Movement

    • Developed Boss Encounter including but not limited to Attack Abilities, Movement, and Attack pathing.

A 2D Platforming puzzle game contrasting the difficulties of life with and without help. Solidarity was created as a demo for the Video Game Development Club's, Winter Game Jam in 2022 with the theme being, Better Together. The theme is reflected in the gameplay as the levels difficulty is based upon the players working together.

• Team Size: 3

• Engine: Unity

• Language: C#

• Role(s):

  • Lead Level Designer

    • I designed and implemented two distinctly different puzzles for the First Level.

    • I designed 6 unique puzzles for an unused second level of the game that was cut due to time restrictions.

    • Designed two separate yet challenging puzzles that tasked the players with moving with with precision.

    • I programmed the level obstacles that the player would have to avoid.

A Science Fiction based First Person Shooter. Project Malware was a quarter long Project for the Video Game Development Club, in which the player is tasked with escaping their office building that has been taken over by an unknown force that wants to bring an end to life as "we" know it. 

• Team Size: 4

• Engine: Unity

• Language: C#

• Role(s):

  • Lead Level Designer

    • Designed and Implement an open office environment that forced the player to play in a variety of different ways.

  • Lead Gameplay Designer

    • Codeveloped several of the AI Systems for the Enemy NPCs including but not limited to:

      • Navigation

      • Combat

      • Health

  • Lead Narrative Designer

    • Came up with the original Idea for this game.

    • Wrote a script that narratively built upon the world of the game.

  • Team Lead

    • Oversaw the management of a small team.

    • Assisted Developers and Designers when needed.

• Planning on remaking game from scratch in Unreal Engine 5

A 3D Platformer in which a stranded Astro-Bot traverses from planet to planet collecting fuel cells as they return to their spaceship. Ultra Gravity Outer Space was made for the Spring 2022 California Collegiate Game Jam in which the theme was Space. The game takes inspiration from popular 3D platformers.

• Team Size: 8

• Engine: Unity

• Language: C#

• Role(s):

  • Lead Level Designer

    • Sketched and Designed 3D level layout on paper that takes advantage of unique movement system.

    • Built level that supports core mechanics

    • Prototyped and Iterated several different versions of the traversal path. 

    • Co-Designed Gravity Field Implementation that allows player to move from planet to planet. 

First Person Action Role Playing Game in which the player is tasked with finding out what lead to the fall of a kingdom and stopping it before they can do more damage to the rest of the world.

• Capstone Project

• Engine: Unreal 5

• Language C++ & Unreal Blueprints

• Role(s):

  • Level Designer

    • Paper prototyped several encounters in the main world scene.

    • Implemented upon the final designs of the prototyped open world encounters.

    • Communicated and Assisted the lead level designer with implementation of assets that thematically fit the main world.

    • Created and implemented a final boss encounter area completely from scratch. 

      • Paper-prototyped different Design Layouts inspired by games of the same genre while keeping in mind the mechanics we had thus far.

      • Grey-Blocked the entire area in Maya with input from the rest of the team on what might needed changing.

      • Implemented the final scene with assets carefully chosen to optimize runtime efforts while giving off the professional quality of the game.

First Person Horror game where the player has to traverse through dark corridors to reach escape pods that will deliver you to safety. 

• Solo Project

• Engine: Unreal 5

• Language C++ & Unreal Blueprints

  • Level Design

    • Designed and Sketched out maze like corridor system on paper.

    • Prototyped and Implemented 2D designs in a 3D space.

    •  Iterated on lighting the map in different ways that fit the theme of the game.

  • Programming

    • Developed 3 Hostile AI with Navigation Paths

    • Programmed Start, End, and Game Over menus.

    • Implemented Footstep audio. 

A first person action adventure game that takes place in the wild west with a supernatural twist.

• Solo Project

• Engine: Unity, but moving to Unreal 5

• Language: C# to C++ / Unreal Blueprints

• This is a high scope project that I am currently still in the preproduction phase of development. I am blocking out scenes and building the smaller sets of the game. I am looking to implement large scale levels that allows the player to explore the world of WWW. I plan to implement an interesting spin on the first person action system by using a magic/spell based combat system. I also plan to use a branching dialogue system to create a story where players choices determine certain outcomes.