Project Duration: September 2024 - May 2025
Team: Daydream Studios
Primary Role: Gameplay Programmer
Engine, Languages and Tools: Unreal Engine 5.4, Blueprints

Aislinn, in which the protagonist shares the same name with, is a hack-slash adventure game that involves traversing dreams with your father's umbrella contained with illustrative floating islands and nightmare phobias attempting to end you journey to finding you father.

This game was developed using Unreal Engine 5.4 and the features of our game has been all implemented using Blueprints.

Link to itch.io page: https://day-dream-studios.itch.io/aislinn
Link to GitHub Repository: https://github.com/mydo99/Aislinn-DayDreamsStudio.git

As a programmer of Aislinn, I have worked on:

• Player Traversal
• Player Combat
• Enemy AI behaviour using NavMesh, Behaviour Trees and other AI tools within Unreal Engine 5
• Animation Blueprints
• UI systems using the Common UI Plugin
• Save systems

Movement and Traversal

• Iterated on character walking, sprinting, and strafing to fit with gameplay and animation
• Implemented a double jump into gliding mechanic
• Worked on camera lock-on feature

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Movement Controls

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Camera Controls

Aerial Movement Controls

Combat Systems

• Implemented an attack combo system for the player
• Worked with the animators to blend animations with combat gameplay
• Created a "shield"-like mechanic for the player to block attacks
• Utilised the AI systems in Unreal Engine to create enemy behaviours
• Used AI Behaviour Trees for wandering around and initiating chase and attack behaviours
• Designed enemy class with inheritance in mind for variants
• Worked with AI Perception Component to design and tweak enemy detection
• Iterated on quality of life features including a hit-stun effect and hit-flash material for both the player and enemies

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Attack Combo System

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Shield System

Enemy AI Behaviour Tree

Note: This is a simplified version of the Enemy AI Behaviour Tree.

Player Take Damage

Project Duration: September 2023 - May 2024
Team: Deathcap Studios
Role: Gameplay Programmer
Engine, Language and Tools: Unity, C#

Hive Mind is an action, top-down rogue-lite in which you explore a light-less, post-apocalyptic world by controlling a swarm of bioluminescent creatures.

Link to itch.io page: https://lw276840.itch.io/hive-mind

Link to GitHub Repository: https://github.com/mydo99/HiveMind.git

This game was developed using Unity and was therefore programmed in C#.

During the development of Hive Mind, I worked on:

• Enemy AI behaviour including a mini-boss

• UI functionality

• Stem collection system
• Tutorial

• Unit stat balancing
• Load and save system

Project Duration: December 2022 - May 2023
Team: The Emu Agenda
Role: Gameplay Programmer, Designer, Pixel Artist, Music Composer
Engine, Language and Tools: Unity, C#

For the team project of the first year of my university course, our team, The Emu Agenda, created a tower defense game based on The Great Emu War in Australia. In Diplomatic Emunity, the player runs around the wastelands of Australia to place down towers whilst fighting back with their gun to defend against a variety of emus.

Link to itch.io page: https://fourman2004.itch.io/politicalemucation

Link to GitHub Repository: https://github.com/mydo99/TheEmuAgenda.git

This game was developed in Unity and was therefore programmed in C#. There was also a few constraints for this project in particular as our team was composed of solely programmers and our game had to be based on an event in history. As a programmer, I worked on:

• Player movement and shooting
• Implementing some types of towers
• AI Boss behaviour
• UI elements including health bars and pause menu
• Currency system

I also took the initiative to work on other aspects of the game outside of programming including:

• Tower Art
• Player character art
• Music during the main gameplay
• Stat changes with tower types and enemies