Eras Rising originally started as a group project for GMU's Computer Game Design program capstone. Our group is now fleshing out the game and planning on releasing it fully on Steam and itch.io.

Eras Rising is a single player grid-based tactics game focused on unit position manipulation and movement in combat. The player will experience the narrative of the game by exploring a 3D overworld that transitions seamlessly into 2D combat when encountering an enemy.

I am primarily responsible for environmental art and level design, character sprites and animations, and overworld programming. After the conclusion of the capstone class, I took over production duties: managing our timeline, team members' tasks and sprints, and public announcements and promotion of the game.

George Mason: A Declaration of Rites (DoR), is a puzzle-platforming adventure game. Unlike most university assignments, DoR was created not by a single group of a few students, but by the entire class (~30 people). As such, the class was divided into different teams (Design, Art, Sound, Programming) to work on different parts of the game.

As Product Owner, I was responsible for coordinating the four team leads and making sure each team was completing their tasks in tangent with each other and helping to resolve any potential issues that may have arose. I also stepped in to do hands-on work if needed, such as programming animations, creating additional SFX and VFX. and editing the final trailer, shown above.

I also participated as the composer for the game’s soundtrack. Early on in development, the Design Team wanted to go in the direction of a haunting, yet slightly whimsical sound, and gave Celeste as a reference game. I also drew influence from the melodies of colonial drinking songs when creating some of the tracks. The full OST can be found on SoundCloud, linked above.

Project Janus is a side-scrolling shooter in which you play as the titular character Janus, the Roman-god-turned-night-watchman. Janus is tasked with patrolling a mysterious museum at night, getting rid of ghosts that appear along the way.

I created the soundtrack for the game, linked above. I felt that a good direction to go in would be to balance a sense of fear and anticipation with faster action, which ended up being a fun creative exercise.

Sick is a mini game I designed and programmed myself in Construct 3. The goal is to collect the orbs from each object in the room in the correct order. Very simple, but it acted as a good small exercise in creating another completed project on my own.

For a midterm project in one of my classes, our group was tasked with creating a game within a testbed for the hypothetical "Figment" console. The goal of the game is to escape the room you are trapped in by figuring out the correct pattern of circles on the door. The pattern is based on the objects present in the room, with the combination of objects being different every time you play the game.

After designing the game with my group, I then ended up programming the vast majority of the game and creating most of the art.

Relic Tactics is a tactical turn-based local PvP game playable in-browser via itch.io, linked above. The game originally started as a university assignment that I eventually expanded and completed 100% of on my own.

Relic Tactics was a great experience in developing and self-releasing a game from start to finish. Creating all the art, experimenting with map design, and fixing and refining mechanics felt all the more rewarding. Screenshots from the game can be found on my Behance.

Penterra is a top-down action game some friends and I created in our senior year of high school for a game competition. The game itself consists of a demo as a proof of concept for a full game.

We worked collaboratively on the game design, while I worked primarily on the in-game character sprites and animation, as well as structure and object art. Examples of what I worked on can be found on my Behance.

After finishing up the demo, I created a multi-page spread detailing development of the Penterra demo for our high school magazine, linked above.