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Attack of the 50ft Robot! - Junior/Senior
www.attackofthe50ftrobot.com
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Attack of the 50ft Robot! is an 3D action game set in a 1950's B movie. You play as a giant robot and destroy everything in your way. Demolish buildings, shoot lasers, fling enemies, launch rocket arms, and more all while playing the game with 3D glasses.


This game, while headed for the student IGF competition, did not get in the finalists. On the other hand, it has caused several terabytes of bandwidth, nearly 60 thousand YouTube views, wonderful reviews on blogs, GameSpot, and IGN, praise from Final Fantasy composer Nobuo Uematsu, hosted on various download sites (not instigated by my team), and even has a fan-made torrent available out on the tubes of the Internets. We didn't get IGF, but I'm glad we made a few people excited while blowing up a city.

I was responsible for the core engine, player control and animation, building logic, UI, and sound. I also worked on some boss AI, object avoidance, and interactions with our level editor. For non-technical work, I created all 2D artwork and posters, made a few 3D models, and reduced the polygon count for various models supplied from our artists. This project spanned over a year with a few breaks on top of the rest of school work.

For the core engine, I created component-based game objects and a messaging system connecting all modules and components. Multi-threading was used for loading meshes and other art assets while the game was going through the splash screens and main menu. I used XML for storing information about each game object and their components and Lua for levels and complex particle systems. Within my teammate's level editor, I set up editing of components and the ability to update components on the fly to see instant results. With my object factory, each module was responsible for their own components (i.e. graphics module owned all light, particle, and mesh components) and I was able to register types to be created by certain modules. This system allowed our transition to PhysX over a custom PhysX engine easier. I also had a memory allocator that kept debug information for when there were allocation/deallocation mismatches.

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Red Hawk X2 - Senior (Independent Project)

Red Hawk X2 is top-down shoot em' up similar to the game Raiden. The main focus of the game is to show off various graphical features, but it does include the ability to slow down, speed up, and reverse time.


Video is darker than it really is.

Graphical effects: deferred shading, ssao, motion blur, volumetric lights, multiple shadow-casting lights, Oren-Nayer diffuse lighting model, and particles.


Kudos - Sophomore

Kudos is a 2D isometric action game with RTS elements. With an army of fluffy blob creatures named "kudos", take on the evil-doers and their mind-controlled minions.


Recorded by Bryan Chacosky.

I programmed the core engine, graphics, and animation. I also created all of the character artwork and sprite animatons from the concept art created by fellow teammates.

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The Pirate-Ninja - Freshmen

The Pirate-Ninja is a Zork-like text adventure game. You play as a half-pirate, half-ninja who seeks vengence on the years of discrimination in a world of pirates and ninjas. Fight pirates, ninjas, robots, zombies, and bunnies.

I made the combat system, sound, and was the primary designer.

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