Prophecy Games
Programmer
Feb 2022 – Aug 2023
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Starsiege: Deadzone
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Starsiege: Deadzone is a multiplayer corridor extraction shooter set in the far reaches of space. Group up with other players, board dilapidated space stations, and explore their depths for valuable caches.
Your survival will be threatened by opportunistic Raiders and the Cybrids that reside within.
Extract what you can and escape alive.
As a gameplay programmer, I used Unreal Engine 5 Blueprint and C++ to create various abilities like the motion sensor and. highlighting loot and perks for the player characters including boosts to different attributes.
MAGIC Spell Studios
Game Designer – Lost & Found
Jan 2016 – May 2017
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Nominated for the Tabletop Award at IndieCade 2019
Lost & Found is a series of tabletop card games and a video game for PC and mobile based around a group of medieval villagers trying to survive while balancing their needs with the mandates of Jewish law of the time. The goal of the game is to provide a fun experience that teaches players about not only the laws of the time but also why these laws existed and how they helped shape modern legal systems.
While working on the game, I helped design and playtest weekly revisions of Lost & Found: Order in the Court. I also automated the process of creating cards using Python and Ruby scripts and Excel spreadsheets to turn card info directly into PDFs to be printed. This reduced the time it took to make updates to all the cards from hours to minutes and creating a new batch for printing down to seconds.
MAGIC Spell Studios
Game Developer – Chain Gang Chase
Jan 2014 – Jun 2014
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Won the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle Award for Innovation at Imagine RIT 2014
Chain Gang Chase is a couch co-op game for OUYA, Windows, Mac and Linux in which up to 8 players play as prisoners chained to one another and have to work together to escape. As prisoners are killed, they respawn as cops now trying to chase down their former allies.
Chain Gang Chase was programmed in Java using Libgdx. I was part of the main team of seven people who worked on the game along with a few part timers.
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