Project Type: Shader

Team: Solo

Platform: Shadertoy

Stack: GLSL, OpenGL

Release: Shadertoy - Dec 2022

Description: This project uses ray tracing to render a simple scene of spheres and planes varying in reflectivity. All objects are defined within the fragment shader, including a camera and view frustum. Lighting is calculated using the Blinn-Phong shading model. Ray tracing is done using an iterative algorithm (as GLSL does not support recursion).

Player Controls: Click and drag on the viewport to move the light source.

Project Type: Web App

Team: Solo

Platform: Google Chrome, Firefox

Stack: HTML, JavaScript, Three.js

Description: Infinite procedurally generated mesh rendered in chunks utilizing Perlin noise as a height map. Vertex colors are set by interpolating between green and red colors based on the terrain height.

UI Controls:

• playerSpeed: set the speed the player can fly around the map
• chunkSize: set the size of a single chunk in square units
• mapSize: set the size of the map in chunks (mapSize x mapSize)
• scale: set the scale of the terrain (higher scale means larger hills)
• smoothness: set how smooth the terrain will be (higher is more smooth)
• seed: sets the location of the player relative to the global terrain

Note: Higher mapSize and scale means more mesh to generate which will slow performance.

Player Controls:

• click the viewport to run the app, click again or press ESC to stop
• fly forward/back/left/right: WASD
• fly up/down: EQ

Known Bugs: Graphical issue with view frustum culling.

Project Type: Video Game

Developer: Alientrap Games Inc.

Publisher: Whitethorn Games

Platform: PC, Nintendo Switch, Playstation 4/5, Xbox One/Series X/S

Engine: Unity

Release Date: December 9, 2021

Achievements: 9/10 Steam, 7/10 Nintendo Life, 78% Metacritic

Description: Wytchwood is a crafting adventure game where you play as the old witch of the woods in the setting of a strange and mythical world. Gameplay involves a rich storyline, quests, crafting, casting spells, solving puzzles and exploring a beautiful 2.5D environment.

My Role: I worked as a programmer on Wytchwood where I helped develop UI, fix bugs, and maintain core gameplay design tools.

Credits: See the credits for the project here.

Project Type: Unity Extension Asset

Team: Solo

Platform: Unity 2018.4.29+

Stack: C#, Unity

Release: Unity Asset Store - May 2018

Achievements: 5 star rating, 400+ sales

Description: Terrain Engine 2D is a complete system for procedurally generating destructible 2D terrain.

Features:

• Grid Based Tiling System
  • Custom chunking/mesh generation
  • Multi-layer z-based rendering
  • Support for various types of tilesets
  • Occlusion culling
• Procedural Map Generation Framework
  • API for adding and removing blocks and fluid
  • Built in support for Perlin noise
  • Fluid flood-filling algorithm
  • Extensible
• Complete Multi-Fluid System
  • Support for multiple fluid types
  • Fluid seperation with density
  • Dynamic fluid pressure
  • Multi-color fluid mixing
• Complete Lighting System
  • Algorithmic mesh light sources
  • Raycast light sources
  • GPU based block lighting
  • Basic and Advanced lighting options
• Dynamic Modification Tools
  • Adding and removing blocks from specific layers dynamically
  • Adding and removing fluid
  • Showing/Hiding block layers
  • Control brush radius
• Full Collider System
  • Dynamically generates colliders for terrain chunks
  • Custom PolygonCollider2D point setting algorithm
• Custom Unity Inspector
  • Serialized properties for handling all terrain, fluid and lighting settings
  • UI for setting up blocks, textures, and layers directly within the Unity editor
• Terrain Serialization
  • Saving and loading terrain
• Project Support
  • Support for side-scrolling games
  • Support for top-down games

Credits:

• Special thanks to Jon Gallant and Janis Elsts for their work (MIT) which was used to create the fluid simulation.
• Thanks to Sebastian Lague for his tutorial and Field of View project (MIT) which helped create the raycast lighting.

Project Type: Mobile Game

Team: Solo

Platform: Android 4.1+

Stack: Java, libGDX

Release: Google Play Store - June 2017

Achievements: 5 star rating, 500+ downloads

Description: Bhop Go was a 2D platformer game the involved jumping from platform to platform while avoiding obstacles to reach the end of each level as quickly as possible. It mimicked the Strafe-jumping mechanic seen in video games based on the Quake engine, such as Half-Life.

Game Features:

• Simple and intuitive one finger controls.
• Over 20 levels of varying difficulty.
• Character customization and control settings.
• Global leaderboard with Google Play Services.
• Tutorial and help screen for instructions.

Additional Information: Bhop Go was originally named Bhop Blop.

Credits:

Programmer/Artist: Matthew Wilson

UI Artwork: Andreas Reitberger

Music: Digital Math, From The Dust

SFX: Epic Stock Media