My Contributions

• Layout of the levels
• Background lands created from procedurally generated tilemaps
• Graphics + shaders to fit the retro theme
• 3d platformer movement of the player
• Enemy AI behavior
• Color-coded textures of the levels so player can differentiate the floors, ramps, or walls

My Contributions

• Programmed object-oriented page-turning system that the entire app uses as a base.
• Made a data system for multiple choice question games, something that the entire app heavily relies on.
• Designed the majority of the UI to resemble artist mockups as closely as possible
• Created UI animations in order to give the app polish
• Optimization of graphics and code performance
• Discussed with team about plans and feedback of our progress

What’s My Method? is a gamified app that’s designed to teach about the various birth control methods, their effectiveness, and how each method may be used in diverse couples scenarios.

The game is currently designed to support contraceptive counseling in a healthcare setting. The first deployment is with the Barbados Family Planning Association in Bridgetown where the game is deployed on tablets in waiting and examination rooms.

The app also collects data from users’ answers in order to help researchers understand the knowledge people have about using various birth control methods.The app also collects data from users’ answers in order to help researchers understand the knowledge people have about using various birth control methods.

Page Navigation System

The Page Navigation System is a singleton system designed to organize the entirety of the app in a Presentation-like way.

All UI content is separated into their own individual pages while being able to switch from page-to-page easily.

Each page is its own individual canvas in order to make it impossible for any UI elements outside the page to affect what's inside, and to keep everything organized.

A flowchart that shows the inner-workings for how the system works (in a simplified manner)

UI Art + Animations

I created the UI of the game to match up with the provided mockup. I also communicated with the artists to discuss how long everything would take to implement based on the mockups, as well as asking for feedback on the finished in-game product.

Slot System

The Slot System is designed specifically for multiple choice-type games while also making it easy to auto-generate the games based on the given data.

The types of slots are split into 2 categories: Answer Slots and Choice Slots.

• Answer Slots are the empty slots that are expecting to receive an answer from the user. The answer slots will display an image and/or text based on the selected choice from the user.
• Choice Slots are the choices for the user to choose in order to answer the multiple choice game. It displays text and an image from the start.

The data for both these types of slots are also split into their own separate data types.

Answer slot data stores:

• correctAnswerKey: The key for the correct answer that gets compared to the user’s given answer.
• receivedAnswerKey: The user's given answer during in-game runtime.

Choice slot data stores:

• answerKeyToGive: The key to give to the Answer Slot Data after the slot is chosen.

The system can automatically generate multiple-choice games just from the given ScriptableObject data. By doing this, it saves time instead of having to tediously set the data for every answer/choice button when the system can do it automatically.

A flowchart that shows the inner-workings for how the system works (in a simplified manner)

Teddy Pop is a mobile game I worked on with a team of artists and programmers at Mass Digi Digital Games Institute. I worked as one of the main programmers, mainly focusing on implementing player mechanics and creating many of the graphical/VFX effects.

Programming

• Main programmer for player controls system.
• Aiming system for throwing bubbles at touchscreen point
• System to scroll the level down either every # of steps, or when the level is too high up.
• Detect when the bubbles need to scroll downward, either every # of steps to challenge the player, or when the level is too high up
• Worked on a level editor as a developer tool for the game
• Raycasted, non-physics based movement system to give an accurate pre-set path for thrown bubbles.

Graphical/VFX Effects

• Falling bubble effects
• Graphics for the walls + ceiling
• Squash and stretch animation and motion trail for thrown bubbles
• Glowing + smoke particles for held bubbles
• Jelly-like animation for the background slime
• Swinging animation for the parachuting animals
• Swap animation for switching held bubbles
• Graphics for the walls + ceiling
• Falling bubbles effect
• Goal effect of bag spilling remaining bubbles
• Losing + Winning animation

Optimization

• Compressed + resized images to the Goldilocks-zone of being not too compressed and not using too much memory
• Created more efficient ways to display art + animations made by artist teammates.
• Created script to only display parts of the map graphic that are seen in the camera view
• All the optimizations gave a massive performance boost to the app, increasing the frame rate from 15 up to 60 fps when played on mobile hardware.

During development, I gained extensive experience in teams, and strong interpersonal communication skills while working with epidemiologists, programmers and artists to collaborate to create the app. In this position, I managed code and applied concepts created by artists, discovered and fixed bugs, created mini-games, designed developer tools to assist with organization, and conducted code reviews of other programmers’ code

Developer Tools

• Flag-manager system used to remember the choices the user has made. (Ex: if a user completes a tutorial, it will mark down that the specific tutorial was complete and will not replay the tutorial again)
• Narration system which reads text either automatically, or when the user taps certain words.
• Presentation creation tool, similar to PowerPoint, that allows developers to place text and images on various pages. (This system made it much easier for the team to create tutorials)

Fixes + Improvements

• Adjusted UI to work with vertical screens of all sizes and aspect ratios
• Added tutorials (using created presentation creation tool) to minigames
• Enhanced UI arrangement to improve user experience

Publicly field tested game prototype

• Asked random people to playtest the game
• Got playtesting data by having people answer survey questions after playing

Created minigame to help describe herd immunity

• Discussed mockup concept created by artist teammates
• Prototyped the minigame and discussed with work group what needs improvement or changes
• Imported and made minor edits to graphics from mockups

FacePaint AR is an Android camera app that allows the user to place any image from their phone onto their face live from their camera, and to take a picture with the image on their face to save to their phone.

The user can scale, change the position, and opacity of the image to their liking so that it matches how they desire the image to be “painted” on their face.

Since the amount of images the user can choose is nearly endless, there are tons of possibilities of what the user can place on their face and how they can experiment with the application.

This idea was inspired while using Snapchat, which included a filter to place a picture of someone else’s face upon your own. However, on some occasions, the filter would mistakenly choose a faceless image which allowed me to place this image upon my face. I liked being able to see how these regular images appeared on my face, but this could only happen by exploiting the filter to detect a false positive of an image, which did not occur very often. Because of this, I decided to make my own app that allows the user to place any image from their phone onto their face with no limitations on what image they want to choose.

Project: Inferno is a fast-paced, third person shooter game heavily inspired by classic shooter games from the 90s. Race through the hellish lands, slaughtering anyone who gets in your way during your journey, and find the exit to escape from hell.

Programming

• Programmed entire game, designed entire game
• Main programmer for player controls system.
• Movement and third person aiming system for the player
• Unique AI behaviors for every enemy + boss
• Weapon functionality

Graphical/VFX Effects

• Created 95% of textures for models
• Added textures for weapons, enemies, player models, and levels
• Textured enemies to have bright neon colors so that they can be individually recognized quickly in the heat of combat.
• Designed all particle effects to give the game polish.

Level Design

• Main level designer for the entire game
• The levels are filled with unique sections, each containing a different challenge for the player to find. Some of the combat challenges can involve the player getting ambushed by enemies who were waiting behind a sliding door, sometimes there might be an obscene amount of enemies in which the player would have to be smart about where to take cover and when to strike.
• Since this game has fast-paced combat, it’s important that the player is able to scan for important entities within an instant. The background objects of the game, such as the floors and walls, usually consist of a dark color palette to signify that they exist, but aren’t something that requires your attention on the spot. With the foreground objects though, such as enemies, weapons, powerups, and hazards, they are given a bright, neon-colored look which makes it hard for the player not to notice them when they’re looking around an area.
• There are a variety of different enemies to fight against, each with their own unique abilities and attacks. Since there are different types of enemies, they can be paired in different layouts and amounts to make each part of enemy combat feel unique.