Designed the maze-like server room environment, ensuring it was challenging yet rewarding for the player to navigate.

Developed key gameplay elements, including generating environmental obstacles and maze navigation challenges that promote player decision-making and problem-solving.

Optimized environmental features for interaction, including combat areas, trap placements, and visual cues that guide the player’s progression through the level.

Created a full breakdown of the level's duration and pacing, detailing how the stage grows over time and the different stages, movement patterns, and goals for each enemy type.

Implemented core game mechanics, such as player damage, movement, combat systems, and level switching, to ensure smooth and responsive gameplay.

Programmed the behavior of enemies, including movement, spotting and tracking the player, drone targeting, and clone attacks, to create dynamic combat encounters.

Created and designed overlays and visual feedback, such as door triggers, combat indicators, and boss damage counters, to improve player awareness and immersion in the environment.

Expanded the narrative using pre-existing content to deepen the game world and immerse players in its eerie, unsettling atmosphere.

Developed lore for the NPCs, main character, and other key figures to enrich the game’s story and build out a world with depth and mystery.

Created and tied the “Household Rules” directly into both gameplay and narrative, allowing players’ interactions with the environment to trigger different consequences depending on their choices.

Developed and adjusted puzzles to align with the narrative, ensuring each puzzle felt integral to the progression and character development.

Designed a system for breaking the rules, where players could trigger resets and set up challenges for future attempts.

Developed physics-based movement and object interaction mechanics, ensuring that all actions were reactive to the player’s choices and encouraging experimentation.

Managed item use and swapping mechanics tied to the rules system, where specific objects became essential in breaking the rules or achieving goals.

Programmed AI for enemies that reacted to rule-breaking, triggering chase sequences or game resets that kept players engaged and added an element of tension.

Integrated gameplay mechanics with the puzzles to ensure that interactions were smooth and immersive, leading to satisfying and intuitive player experiences.

Programmed core player mechanics in GODOT, including player movement, health, damage, and death systems, to ensure smooth combat flow and player interaction.

Coded the randomization of the build generation and removal logic, maintaining a balanced and evolving gameplay experience. This ensured that players could enjoy different strategies with each wave.

Developed enemy AI systems, including movement, health, and damage logic, contributing to the dynamic and challenging wave-based combat experience. Enemies adapted to player actions, creating a constantly engaging environment.

Led a cross-functional team, coordinating tasks across various areas, including engine setup, UX design, sound integration, and player/enemy coding to create a cohesive and functional game.

Managed project milestones, ensuring that key features such as enemy AI, wave generation, and random build selection were delivered on time, keeping the team focused on core objectives.

Facilitated team meetings to track progress, prioritize critical tasks, and maintain alignment with the game’s vision and technical requirements, ensuring that every aspect of the project moved forward efficiently.

Programmed core player controls and interactions, including elf movement, object pickups, and task performance (assembly, inspection, wrapping) using Unity and custom input systems.

Developed a conveyor belt system that dynamically spawns toy parts and tasks, incorporating random errors and defects to keep gameplay fresh and challenging.

Implemented real-time mechanics for scoring, timers, and error tracking, ensuring that obstacles like pile-ups required immediate player intervention and affected progression.

Optimized performance by ensuring smooth gameplay despite multiple interactive systems running concurrently.

Led the coordination of gameplay progression, ensuring the difficulty curve and task complexity were well-balanced to keep players challenged without overwhelming them.

Ensured UI elements effectively communicated key game mechanics and supported player navigation through complex tasks.

Coordinated cross-team collaboration with international members, ensuring the cohesive development of gameplay systems, UI, and error mechanics.

Managed Agile sprints throughout the month-long development period, keeping the team on track with deliverables and ensuring timely completion of game features and bug fixes.

Designed and implemented a unique custom UI system, featuring a ring and hand interface, which provided clear, intuitive visual feedback to players and fit the theme of the tower-climbing adventure.

Created, designed, drew, and developed a series of unique UI features that triggered throughout the various maps, enhancing the player's immersion and connection to the environment.

Developed navigation aids such as visual cues and instructions to efficiently guide players through complex levels, ensuring they understood gameplay mechanics and objectives.

Enhanced overall user experience through iterative design, refining UI components based on player feedback to ensure functionality, clarity, and immersion.

Designed custom visual effects that integrated UI elements seamlessly with the gameplay narrative, contributing to the thematic consistency of the tower-climbing adventure.

Collaborated on narrative design to integrate story elements and environmental features that deepened the player's connection to the game world.

Fine-tuned environmental cues such as lighting, audio triggers, and level design elements, creating a cohesive and immersive experience that enhanced player engagement.

Resolved critical gameplay issues related to level transitions, teleportation systems, and enemy spawning, ensuring smooth progression and fluid gameplay flow.

Conducted iterative testing to refine core gameplay mechanics and resolve bugs, polishing the overall player experience.

Worked with Verse Programming Language to modify the camera system, successfully transforming it into a bird's-eye view for specified sections of the map. This task posed a significant challenge, requiring a deep understanding of the engine's capabilities and custom programming logic to adjust the camera behavior for specific gameplay scenarios.

Developed environmental rule sets that impacted combat and overall gameplay, creating engaging environments that provided both challenge and player agency.

Worked closely with the artistic team to optimize the layout and asset requirements for environmental assets, ensuring that the game’s aesthetic matched the intended design and gameplay functionality.

Conceptualized the environment's layout, including building positions and locations that served narrative and gameplay purposes.

Prototyped three variations of the environmental layout, testing each to determine the best player experience, game pacing, and mechanics.

Planned and designed the in-game economy, including available resources, spending mechanics, and resource circulation, to ensure the gameplay loop was balanced and engaging.

Adjusted upgrade costs, drop rates, and probability parameters to maintain an economy aligned with playtest feedback, ensuring it was neither easy nor difficult for players to progress.

Created comprehensive documentation outlining the economic systems, including rules, resource flows, and probability rates for future iteration and adjustments.

Designed a user-friendly interface that reflects the detective theme, ensuring easy access to vital game functions while maintaining a clean, thematic visual style.

Created intuitive menus, including the main menu, save/load screens, and interactive buttons, ensuring a seamless experience for players navigating the game.

Developed, iterated, and fine-tuned the interfaces for the card games and click-n-point segments, ensuring clear visual cues for player actions and logical progression in investigation tasks.

Worked to balance functionality and design, ensuring players could easily track clues, make deductions, and access game features without confusion.