Projects

Play the demo on Steam!

• Full mod support!
  • Write complex fighter behaviours with intuitive Lua-based scripting language.
  • Best Aseprite asset pipeline you have ever seen.
• Slick pixel art-based VFX to make your punches feel super impactful!
• Enthralling narrative with fully animated cutscenes!
• Ultra-responsive player controls - let your controller be your fists!

Watch our awesome trailer! Developed by Studio Anjin, a small fully-remote indie studio. A 3D JRPG-platformer with one of the most complex turn-based combat mechanics in any JRPG*. My main contributions to this project are listed below.

• Implemented 3D platforming speedrun mechanics; optimised character controller for game feel, using realistic physics as a starting point.
• Created framework to systematically describe the motion/evolution of complex VFX in combat (using tweens, splines, z-buffer hacks, etc.).
• Extended existing custom (Lua-based) scripting language for designing combat skills.
• Minimax combat AI with simple but innovative approach to difficulty scaling (ask me!).
• Misc: minimap system, on-screen keyboard, chaining state-dependent skills in combat, wrote some simple shaders, fixed various math/physics-related inaccuracies, fixed game-breaking memory leaks.

*of the ones I've played, which is admittedly not many :(

See github project for more info, including a cool infographic. Minty Beats is a general-purpose custom beatmap editor for your rhythm game! Originally made for quick prototyping of rhythm games in game jams. Beatmaps are saved as JSON files.

• Supports mid-song BPM/Time signature changes!
• Record keystrokes in real-time to create nodes on the beatmap!
• Edit node metadata to specify additional event properties!
• Sleek beatmap visualisation with advanced grid snapping (quantization) options!
• Easy to teach to designers in a pinch for game jams!

See github project for more info. A Unity tool to create procedurally generated tile-based dungeons, inspired by The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth. I proved that this algorithm generates a strict superset of all possible floor layouts in TBoI:R, with some caveats. In other words, this algorithm can do everything TBoI:R can (except thin rooms), plus a lot more!

• Very fine tuned yet intuitive control over generation parameters!
• Such parameters include "clustering" and "branching", which are both very designer-intuitive, and together completely determine the nature of the algorithm's randomness (up to symmetry).
• Make crazy room shapes (connected rooms only); specify different placement rules for special rooms!
• Program automatically detects any contradictions in your specifications!
• Lightning fast algorithm (random-walk based)!
• Comes with a detailed academic paper and documentation!

Set up OpenGL rendering pipeline and scene from scratch for a university course at the Australian National University (not University of Canberra, that is a meme). I got the highest mark in this course out of ~50 students. Currently studying tech art in depth.

• Mostly perlin and voronoi noise based shaders to define procedural textures and terrain.
• Systematic way to draw meshes to the scene; player input system. Essentially the foundation of a 3D game engine.
• Shadow mapping, cel shading, scene curvature, screen space post-processing, terrain-water intersection foam.
• Detailed understanding of buffers (frame, z, texture, etc.), the modern rendering pipeline, shaders.
• Ask me how to draw a sphere.