Rubber Bandits – Networked brawler game
Gameplay & UI Programmer
Trailmakers – Networked physics based vehicle builder game
Tools & UI Programmer
Description:
During the development of this project I spent a lot of time improving upon lighting and particles. I also wrote a few scripts for Unity in order to familiarize myself with it more.
Besides those things i spent a significant portion of time trying to implement vertex painting. This was in order to enable our artists to create scenes with a more unique feel to them, without them actually having to create new assets.
Unfortunately that feature had to be cut due to time constraints, and looking back on it I should probably have given it up a bit sooner.
Hopefully I can bring this with me in the future so I don’t get too attached to a specific feature.
My main contributions:
Animations
Particles
Unity scripts
Improved Lighting
Improved rendering
Description:
This was our first project actually written in C++.
Whilst the challenges from the first project mainly came from the new environment, this time around it was definitely just the coding, plain and simple.
Getting used to keeping track of everything instead of having the engine do it for you was quite the change. This was also the first project where we used our “in-house” engine: TGA2D, which took some time to get used to as well.
My main contributions:
Pathfinding.
Events.
Feedback.
Description:
During this project C++ started making a lot more sense, as one would hope.
I was (and still am) of course by no means a “finished” programmer. However, a certain flow was found, and not everything made my head hurt quite as much anymore.
Insofar as the game goes, I would even go so far as calling it a success. It is by far my favorite of the games we made in the first year.
During the project I chose to focus my efforts on the control scheme and creating a smooth experience for the player.
My main contributions:
Player controls.
Animations.
Feedback.
Description:
This was the first project of the second year, the first 3D project, and the first project we developed our own engine for.
At the end of the first year I was starting to feel like I had some experience.
That feeling went straight out the window. This was a whole new whirlwind of chaos and mayhem, and nothing made sense.
Getting models from the artists, through Unity and the level designers, and finally into our game became the bane of my existence for 2 weeks. Who knew scale could cause so many problems?
My main contributions:
PBL
Collision
Projectiles
Controls
Threaded and buffered rendering
Unity scene export
Description:
Terra Cristallum was our first project at The Game Assembly.
Since it began just a few weeks after we first started school, this project was coded in LUA instead of C++. It was definitely a trial. Not so much because the code was especially difficult to understand, but because everything was just new and overwhelming. Working this closely as a team was also something I hadn’t experienced before, and it came with it’s own set of challenges.
However, it also came with a few perks.
It was probably my first experience of working with a group of people where everyone was truly passionate about the project we were working on. It was great.
Looking back I can also say that this is probably where my interest in graphical programming first took root, as I took a particular interest in animations and graphical feedback.
My main contributions:
Animations
General feedback and gameplay.
The 4th game developed during the first year at The Game Assembly.
At this point I feel I had developed routine of sorts to the chaos of making a game.
It’s not like things got broken less often. It was just a lot easier to handle. I felt I was finally coming into my own as a programmer.
My main contributions:
Animations
Particles
GUI
Camera Movement
