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Professional Work

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UNANNOUNCED PROJECT

I loved working at Sony Santa Monica Studios, learning from the talented and humble people who made God of War!

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Systems Design Intern

  • Implemented gameplay modules used in actual levels.

  • Implemented quests for internal playtesting.

  • Pitched ideas, approved for production.

  • Converted scripts from LUA to Visual Scripting.

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Summer 2019

Recent Work

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DREAMWALKER [WIP]

Explore fears by diving into people’s psyche.

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Learned how to pitch a game in 3 minutes to industry experts. After two rounds, Dreamwalker has successfully been greenlit. Currently working on this Capstone project!

 

  • Greenlit out of 24 solo pitches.

  • Guided overall creative direction.

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#design #code

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ORIGAMI

Transverse through a beautiful origami world a friend.

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I learned about the animation pipeline and the struggles of getting Unity's physics engine to feel right!

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  • Stop motion animation.

  • Co-designed visuals and game.

  • Scripted player, physics and collision.

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#design #code #animation

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VILLAGE

I am extremely fascinated by the possibilities of procedural generation! This is just one of my many experiments!

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  • Scripted cellular automata procedural map generator.

  • Scripted dynamic runtime navigation meshes.

  • Designed and scripted multiple creep waves.

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#design #code

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RAINBOW DREAMS

Relax in a soothing world of rainbow.

 

Even though I'm not a programmer, I wanted to learn how emulate physic forces using vector math. This is the first of many learning experiments on procedural generation.

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  • Designed and implemented everything.

  • Programmed physics without a game engine.

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#design #code #physics

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CATWALK

Survive the brutal cat modeling industry. Made in 100h for ExtraCredits Game Jam 2019.

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I love Game Jams because it really pushes me to scope well! Feature creep anyone? I love entering the hyper focus flow state and the challenge of a tight time frame.

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  • Lead a team of four

  • Guided overall creative direction.

  • Designed UI, art.

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#design #code #UI

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RED RIDING HOOD

A hilarious "Machocore" game.

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I wanted to see how far I could influence the player's actions by designing affordances.

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  • Scripted the mines, damage, heal and respawn.

  • Designed forest levels.

  • Designed cut scene, dialouge.

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#design #code #level

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Meow Brawler

Spectators have as much fun as players!

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I learned how to resolve 'floaty' jumps and the importance of legibility.

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  • Scripted custom jump gravity.

  • Designed level.

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Moving Forward

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Fishy Signals

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Cube Dodge

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DISASTROUS DOMINION

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Other Professional Work

Path of Exile

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Product Manager

  • Designed progression milestones for race events.

  • Designed promotions.

Mstar Online

2D Art

Product Manager

  • Designed in-game events, reward mechanisms.

  • Designed and balanced loot drops.

  • Designed tournament system.

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