Created and implemented various scripts and art. 

This was the Term assignment of the first year. The vast majority of the scripts were shown how to create or given. The goal of the assignment was to learn and show that I had the capability to implement and connect all the scripts from a blank canvas to make a coherent and functional game. Apart from having to make and connect all the scripts, the biggest aspect was creating all the art and animations as none of it was given. I learned how to create various 2D art that was coherent with a theme and could be tiled or reused throughout the game.

Credit
Art: I  created all the art in the game from scratch with only basic guidelines for how the art will be tiled.

Programming: Nearly all the programming was through tutorials or given to me by the teacher. The only scripts I made from scratch were the bomb script and spike ball which I only modified.

Created and implemented AI, movement, and level scripts while also creating the art.

I was tasked for the third year term assignment to create and implement functioning AI scripts that would change states depending on the circumstance. In this case, it was to chase the player and periodically fire a projectile at them. When creating my AI I went with a state machine that would switch states depending on what I needed. Such as the player being in sight of the enemies and then switching to a chase state making them head toward the player using a grid and a path script that would use the shortest path to get to the player. To ensure they don't just overlap with one another, I used a slot manager around the player so that they would go to designated positions close to the player. When they reach a slot and are within range, they will switch to an attack state that will rotate their cannons toward the player. However, instead of simply shooting, I implemented a script that will ensure that they fire one at a time which is set on a timer. So even if all are attack states, they will fire one at a time to make it fair for the player.

Credit

Art:  I created all the art for the game using basic unity geometry put together to accomplish the look.

Programming: I created all the scripts for the game with only guides and lessons on the subjects and techniques I used in order to help me.

Created and implemented a Tutorial for Postehaste Emporium.

Tutorials pop ups are particles that will enable when the player enters the hitboxes around them. If they leave the hitbox, it will disable the pop-up and enable the pop-down particle giving it the illusion of a coherent effect. In addition, if the player looks at one and clicks X on an Xbox controller, it will close the tutorial.

Tutorials are also compatible with specific days/levels and can be toggled on and off with a toggle button.

More detailed descriptions in the Postehaste Emporium Project Page.

Credit
Art: I  created all the tutorial art pop-ups shown in the shot. All other art and 3D models were created by the other artists of Honor Bound Entertainment for the game Postehaste Emporium.

Programming: I created all the scripts for the Tutorials except for the player movement shown in the shot.

Created and implemented a Back Stock & Floor Sweep script that handles what happens to items when left on the floor for too long. After an item is left on the floor it will spawn an empty game object with a timer that lasts for 5 seconds which will be deleted and interrupted if picked up at any point before the timer finishes.

When the timer finishes, the item itself will be added to a queue, and create another empty object with a particle effect attached will delete itself when finished. The queued items will then be handled by the back stocks script itself. It has a list of all the specified backstocks shelves and another list holding a pool of the available ones. The script will teleport the items in the queue to available shelf locations and ensure they are placed properly on the shelf as it has a separate script for the player placing items into their location. Once it does those locations are removed from the available pool. And when those items are removed, those locations will be available to have items teleported to them once more.

More detailed descriptions in the Postehaste Emporium Project Page.

Credit

Art:  I created all the items that were teleported to the back stocks shelves.  All other art and 3D models were created by the other artists of Honor Bound Entertainment for the game Postehaste

Programming: I created all the scripts for the Back Stock & Floor Sweep except for the shelf scripts themselves which I only added to for Back Stock integration.

During the second year, I was tasked with creating my own script and method for this application. I was given all the UI you see before you. The functionality for the buttons and task was already given, however, it was up to me to write a function and code that would be able to search through these rows and columns of letters to find and highlight all the words given at the left. So I decided to create multiple For loops that would allow me to search through the columns and rows of this grid. My method was to go through each word at a time starting with the first one. I would cut the word down to its first letter to compare it to the grid. The For loops would take me through the grid and stop when a letter matches. From there it will check each direction and sees if the second letter of the word is around the one it has stopped at. If so then it will keep checking down the row, column, or diagonally as long as the next letter it checks corresponds with the next letter in the word. If it completes the word, it will mark it blue and start from the top again doing the prosses with the next word and so on. If it hasn't found anything for that letter, then it will keep moving through the grid repeating the process with each matching starting letter. If it doesn't find the word anywhere in the end, then it will move on to the next word and do the process over again. With this method, it took 0.42 seconds to find the word. With how much I have advanced, especially working on Postehaste Emporium, I could definitely redo my method and improve on this immensely.

Credit

Art: All visual aspects of this assignment was given by the teacher.

Programming: The teacher already gave me the button, a function for turning the word blue, and the grid with all the letters already placed inside.  I created the method and script that searched and found all the words that were possible to find.