Piece of Ship!

7dfps 2022 entry

Making a whole spaceship simulator in a week is a bit ambitious, but we went for it anyway. The result was a fun little game with weird gravity and a lot of fuses.I designed the ship systems to give the feeling of a Star Trek ship that always needs power rerouted in an emergency. I also designed and implemented the level and lighting. Playable here

Spinny

Red Light Green Light

Spooky experiment

I put together this small game in a week as a little side project when I was thinking about vision "based on movement", to quote Jurassic Park. I thought it would add a fun twist on the "liminal spaces" style of games that have been popular recently. You can only see things that move, and there are some folks wandering around for you to find (and avoid). Playable here

Imprint

Experimental gameplay workshop 2021

I'm fascinated with how living things perceive the world, and with alternative control schemes in games. Both of which are usually limited to very gimmicky portrayals in major media. Imprint is an exploration game that asks you to control multiple bodies at one time while only using two buttons. So the limiting factor is not your FPS skills, but your understanding of how brains perceive spaces. I was excited to be able to demo an early prototype at GDC in 2021.

Elf Thief Omega - a colorful implementation of the game of life

Elf Thief omega

Conway's Game of Life video toy

I was learning Unity and looking for a project to work on, and I got really interested in fast algorithms for cellular automata. I turned it into an interactive video toy inspired by analog VJ @liquidlightlab. I exhibited the results at Bar SK in Melbourne in 2018. Playable here

Canine Assembly Line

It's just math (don't tell anyone)

I designed and programmed a small game about sorting algorithms to experiment with sneaking education into games.Who would need to sort things like a comparison algorithm? Colorblind dogs assembling color-coded parts, of course!

Your boss, a dog wearing a tie, is explaining the game
Math

Winter Wars

iPhone shoot-em-up

A mad scientist is trying to end winter, and schoolchildren want to stop him in order to keep their snow days. He shoots them with a laser mounted on his roof.I designed the mechanics and did production planning through release, working with a programmer and an artist.
After seven years, Winter Wars was removed from the app store in the 32-bit purge. RIP.

Imprint (text version)

Twine story

I used Twine to prototype Imprint's level design, then I turned it into a standalone story for GDC 2021. Playable here

Visualization of boids moving around quadtrees and grids

Unity inspectors

Work smarter

I like to design systems-focused games, so there's always a lot of tweaking and balancing to do. As much as I understand the value of command lines and text files, working on anything with more than a small scope really benefits from visual tools.(GIF: A loot table editor I made using Odin Inspector)

Dragonspace

Visualization of spatial partitioning concepts

I programmed a library of well-optimized implementations of spatial partitioning techniques for use in Unity.Since I knew many other beginners get lost in the same rabbit hole, I also wrote an explainer and made an interactive demonstration of the different techniques for anyone else who had the same desire for a side-by-side comparison. Playable here | Code here

Visualization of boids moving around quadtrees and grids