MTG Arena is a very popular online client version of the famous card game, Magic: The Gathering. Over the course of a 10-week summer internship, I was able to take complete ownership over a new feature for the game; namely, the Set Collection feature. This feature allows players to see the progress on their card collection by set, which are further broken down by color and rarity. The feature also tracks both unique and 4x collections; that is, once a player has one card of every set or metric in a set, the meters tick over to tracking complete play sets, which is 4 copies of every card.

As an intern, I worked as the sole programmer of this feature. I worked with another intern who acted as my producer and reported to one of the full-time engineers as well as the feature team lead. I was given a design sheet and some UI prefabs and had 10 weeks to get as much done as I could. I was able to get the feature to a near-complete state and, at the end of my internship in mid-August., handed off the feature to the full team who completed my work. The feature went live on October 6th, 2022.

MTG Arena's site can be found here.

Within These Walls is a narrative-driven horror game that is currently being developed for my capstone project, a year-long project that is a requirement for graduation from the master's degree. This game focused strongly on themes such as self-fulfilling prophecy, the past coming to haunt the present, and escaping destiny. Throughout the game, the house that the player explores will react to the player's behaviors and actions, becoming either more or less haunted depending on if the player acts as if it is and finds clues hinting one way or the other. In the end, it is up to the player to decide what the truth is as they can encounter two different endings based on their gameplay.

For this game I act as a producer, programmer, and narrative writer. As a stand-in for development while we build the encounters within the house, we also are using a text adventure as a stand-in so that players are able to get the full game experience, and writing this text adventure has been my responsibility. I also keep our team of three on track with milestones and requirements for the class. My main responsibility is as a programmer, though, and I've spent most of my time importing and adapting Tansu Ergene's Horror Engine for our game and scripting events for our players to discover.

Overcaste is a third-person exploration game that focuses strongly on smooth movement and compelling world-building. It focuses on a desert- dwelling tribe of people who are being invaded by alien forces for reasons unknown. It leans heavily on themes of the impacts of colonialism on indigenous populations and seeks to lay bare those impacts on a personal, individual level. The player navigates a huge desert map with quick, effortless movement and pushes back the invading forces.

For Overcaste, I work primarily as a narrative designer and world-builder. I wrote the narrative bible for the game and designed several maps that acted as development references. Additionally, I built out much of the initial world, namely the town that the player starts in and the area around it. I also assist with general programming when the need arises.

Overcaste's Twitter can be found here.

"Taste of Culture" was a school project made during Fall Semester 2021 at RIT, and then later received funding from the MAGIC Maker program to continue development over the summer of 2022. I, along with my team Too Many Cooks, first developed this game from September through December 2021 for IGME 601, Game Development Processes, a class which was about analyzing the processes that teams can use to effectively build a game and putting Agile philosophies into practice.

Due to the focus of the class on processes, we were given some constraints in order to encourage us to consider our work efficiency, and we were also provided with an external stakeholder who provided additional requirements to be met. Our theme requirement was to create a game that promoted diversity; to that end, Taste of Culture strove to use food as a common ground: people of all cultures have an intimate but very culturally unique relationship with food, and cooking and eating is often a social activity over which bonding and understanding can happen. Our first level focused on Indian food, and our second level developed in the following summer on Caribbean food.

Taste of Culture's GitHub repo can be found here, and the web build can be found here.

"Beauty" is a biological-technological art installation created by Dr. Carlos Castellanos, an artist, researcher, and professor at RIT. It has been in development since 2020, and I worked on the project as a graduate research assistant from September 2021 to April 2022.

As a graduate research assistant, I had weekly meetings with Dr. Castellanos regarding his vision for the project, the immediate next direction to take, and what technologies and methods I should look into using for this project. Primarily, I focused on computer vision and basic machine learning techniques, including OpenCV and openFrameworks, StyleGAN2, and OSC. I implemented these techniques in C++ and Python using Visual Studio and Google Colab, respectively.

The website detailing Beauty's previous installments can be found here, and the GitHub repo containing my personal work can be found here.

"Watch Dog" was a 2 semester project developed as part of my computer engineering capstone requirement for my undergrad at CNU. I worked with a team of 4 other students to develop a prototype product that could conceivably be marketed as an off-the-shelf product.

My role on the team was primarily as the front-end and database developer, as well as managing development for the data pipeline that would interface with either of these two things. I built a simple SQL server that would take in some basic data from two sources, as well as an ASP.NET web app that would manage the reading and writing of this data. Additionally, since our prospective client was a local SPCA which I had volunteered for in the past, I acted as a liaison between our team and the shelter for determining customer needs, problems that could be solved by our product, arranging meetings for testing and collecting data, and providing updates so that we could receive feedback.

The GitHub repo containing my code for the web application can be found here.