Char George

Unreal

Loma Land

Large scale installation

In this Unreal engine 5 project I worked with the Team at NBBJ/ESI to build a charming “fishbowl” of animals customized by children walking around a natural environment. The project was broadcast onto a huge 60ft wall using 3 4k projectors. The Animals can be decorated with hats, collars, and different skins and will walk, eat, sleep and play together. I came into the project to get the animation systems working and looking great, and I built the AI for how animals decide when and where to go, how they navigate and play their special play animations. A great project that required quick decision making, attention to detail, and smart work to get all the features implemented within a tight timeframe.

Media: https://news.llu.edu/health-wellness/first-of-its-kind-interactive-digital-wall-unveiled-children-s-hospital

Unannounced Unreal Engine 4 Project

Unreal

PC/Mobile

Senior Gameplay Engineer

In this Unannounced Unreal Engine 4 project, I primarily focused on the data systems and UI for the game. I built Mini games in UMG, complicated map and resource visualizations. I also built up the underlying data systems to govern the relationships between factions, control of locations, and more. The base data was procedurally generated. Beyond that I did a number of general development tasks, adding animations, particle effects, and working on dynamic loading systems.

Drawn To Life: Two Realms

Unity

PC/IOS/Android/Switch

Gameplay Engineering Lead

Drawn to Life Two Realms expanded on the whimsey and creativity of the original series by expanding on the creativity that players could express. We allowed the player not just to create their own player and drawings around the world, but we let them even customize the levels themselves to solve puzzles. I’m really proud of the work we did to make a platformer feel great on touch screen device. Interestingly I originally built an AI for the player that they could influence to navigate the levels, but we ended up preferring controlling it directly.

Marco Polo Memory

Unity

IOS/Android

Game Designer and Engineer

Marco Polo Memory was a project designed to help kids train memory. It starts as a pretty standard take on a classic “Simon” style of memory game, but using whimsical characters, and creative modes we managed to make something that connected more with kids and made that kind of memory practice fun.

Lucktastic

Unity/Java for Android and Objective C for IOS

IOS/Android

Senior Engineer

Lucktastic is a hyper casual mobile game allowing players to win real prizes for watching ads and trying new apps. I improved the performance and look and feel on this app, including prototyping and implementing a variety of exciting new mini games and experiences. I also implemented low level features in native IOS/Android for things like push notifications, deep linking, and social sharing.

Alien Academy

Unity

IOS/Android

Engineer/Designer

Alien Academy was my Thesis game for my MFA at the NYU game center. It is a strategy simulation where you have a group of aliens in school. You Direct the aliens around to meet, talk, build relationships and find happiness. But watch out, because a bad relationship could result in fights. I designed and built a bespoke AI system for the aliens allowing for rapidly building new behaviors. I also designed most of the major goals and Alien behaviors.