// game development

Games

Four team games across three engines - including a custom C++/Vulkan stack with no engine at all. Each breakdown covers exactly which systems I built, verified against the git history.

Nutty Pursuit title art
Playable build

Nutty Pursuit

C++ · Vulkan (Gateware) · EnTT ECS

Oct 2025 · 5-person team · top contributor (72 of 147 commits)

  • Robotron-inspired 2.5D arena shooter built from scratch - no commercial engine
  • 8-directional player combat, all three enemy AI archetypes, wave spawning
  • Procedural animation system and combo scoring, all data-driven from config
  • Wrote the team’s Git branching workflow; every sprint ended in a packaged, demo-ready build
C++VulkanECSEnemy AI
Full breakdown → Code available on request
Fluxuate icon
In development

Fluxuate

Unreal Engine 5.4 · C++ · Perforce

Dec 2025 - Feb 2026 · 3 programmers · Engine/UI programmer

  • 3D hack-and-slash where the player turns UE5 physics against enemies
  • 3-slot save system, game-state flow, and the full menu/UI framework
  • Climbing via component reparenting, weapon animations, health/stamina bars
  • Diagnosed and fixed an enemy-persistence save bug across successive builds
UE5C++Save systemsUI
Full breakdown → Code available on request
Earth Untamed key art
Vertical slice

Earth Untamed

Unity 6 · C# · URP

Jan - Feb 2026 · 5-person capstone team · weapons, audio, UI, movement

  • Survival horror on a flooded Earth - manage health, stamina, and sanity
  • Interface-driven weapon system with ScriptableObject data + editor tooling
  • Animation-event hit detection so swings land when they visually connect
  • Player audio system synced to UI state; climbing and viewmodel overhauls
Unity 6C#ScriptableObjectsAudio
Full breakdown → Code available on request
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Team project

Project Galaxy (Orbit Unknown)

Unity 2022.3 · C# · NavMesh

Dec 2024 - Jan 2025 · 5-person Scrum team · #1 committer (141 of 400)

  • 3D sci-fi FPS carried through Alpha, Beta, and QA sprints in four weeks
  • Enemy AI hierarchy on an abstract base - including a stun enemy that steals from your inventory
  • Boss abilities behind an interface; ScriptableObject inventory with a singleton manager
  • JSON save/load with editor-generated GUIDs so scene state survives restarts
UnityC#Enemy AIPersistence
Full breakdown → GitHub

more projects

Solo Arcade Project (P&P IV)

C++ · Vulkan (Gateware) · EnTT

  • Solo Asteroids-style arena game - 105 of 109 commits are mine (rest is course scaffolding)
  • OBB collision math and recursive asteroid shatter, data-driven design
C++VulkanSolo

FPS Team Project (P&P II)

Unity · C#

  • First team FPS with the crew that went on to build Project Galaxy (~100 commits)
  • Enemy AI with class inheritance, orb-capture objective mechanic, game manager
UnityC#Team GitHub

END2508 - UE5 Combat Prototype

Unreal Engine 5 · C++

  • Component-based character architecture: base class inheritance + health component
  • Weapon system with child actors, event-driven design, animation blueprint integration
UE5C++Components

Calculator - Desktop App

C++ · wxWidgets

  • Singleton core processor and Factory Method across 10+ math functions
  • Shunting Yard expression parsing; validated with unit tests across 50+ cases
C++Design patternsTesting

Conway's Game of Life

C++ · wxWidgets

  • Grid sizes to 100×100, color themes, seeded randomization, HUD
  • Resolved 15+ rendering and input bugs through systematic debugging
C++GUIDebugging

Systems & CS Coursework

C++ · SQL · MIPS · MATLAB

  • Console chat server/client in C++; AI path-planning project
  • Data structures from scratch (BSTs, hash tables, Huffman), MySQL/EER design, MIPS assembly
NetworkingAlgorithmsDatabases