I have been a hobbyist developer for nearly a decade and worked professionally on Unity projects in C# for the past 3 years. I have a great appreciation for the ability games have to take people into other realms and experience something truly otherworldly. As such I enjoy digging around in all aspects of development, for fun and to give myself a more robust development skill set.
I have participated in many online game jams through sites like Ludum Dare, GameJolt, and itch.io. Developing anything from simple flash puzzle games to surreal 3D hellscapes and short narrative adventures. With the exception of Farm World, and any music, all of the projects on this website were created by myself.
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There are also more secretive abilities like mesmerizing eyes that hypnotize others, a deafening scream that launches people, and, of course, laser eyes.
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These can both trap the player in a tight spot or bounce them right back up into an enemy. The build up of these obstacles can be traded in for a massive score by luring or knocking an eel into the goo, destroying it in the process.
In turn the eels grow when eating goo which offers more body segments to destroy for points.
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I am really happy with the menu in Fish Monger. It tells a brief, funny story introducing the context of the game and it's controls.
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Tight timing and squeezing by visibility cones is necessary to beat the timeline but you can eat collected goldfish to become invisible briefly.
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So I made King Pencil. It has a few different markers, pencils, and brushes to doodle on artwork with. Plus a stamp, which wound up being the most fun.
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Didn't realize at the time, but it is very similar mechanically to a C64 game called "Zenji" by Matthew Hubbard.
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Bitsy Games
Recently I have really embraced Bitsy (created by Adam Le Doux) as a way to quickly create small narrative adventure games. Working within the restrictions of such a simple engine lets me focus on the world building and narrative aspects. It’s a great way to spend a Sunday.
These are all playable through my itch.io page. Alternatively each thumbnail below has a .gif of an entire playthrough.
A Little Extra
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Relevant Work Experience
Corptron Games Corp.
Game Programmer 06/2016 – 07/2019
- Prototyped a C# Unity editor extension for creating racetracks by placing and deforming meshes along a Bezier spline
- Created custom inspectors and windows to ease design implementation and limit property access to required fields
- Wrote an event system using .NET reflection to call time dependent functions when a moment is reached or surpassed in game time
- Coded shaders in Cg/HLSL for post-process effects during area transitions and equipment use feedback, like water levels in a glass tank draining by use of a stencil mask
- Implemented core farming mechanics such as tilling a freeform row, sowing crops, plant growth and death, watering, and harvesting
- Prototyped vehicle suspension and physics with customizable driving modes activated by force and speed threshold accessible through the inspector
Hobby Development
Game Developer 08/2009 – Forever
- Partaking in game jams hosted by Ludum Dare, GameJolt, and itch.io I have created:
- 7 Bitsy games
- 6 Unity games with C#
- 12 Flash games with ActionScript 3.0
- 2 Others with C# and GML
- Experimented with creating a text adventure from an XML document interpreted by a parsing engine written in ActionScript 3.0
- Touched on all aspects of development: game and level design, programming, art, and audio
Education
Art Institute of Vancouver
Diploma in Game Design 08/2009 – 06/2011
- Prototyped a GameMaker 8.0 game every week for two semesters
- Was Level Design Lead on a team of 8 level designers for our graduation project
- Graduated with a 3.8/4.0 GPA
Programming
- C#
- ActionScript 3.0
- Cg
- HLSL
- XML
- SQL
- Kismet
Engines
- Unity
- UE3
- GameMaker
- Bitsy
Software/Other
- Blender
- Visual Studio
- Tortoise SVN
- Audacity
- Trello
