"Friendshrimp"

[In Progress]

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Lead engineer and lead designer in a long-term game project for the University of Southern California's "Advanced Game Project" module. Long-term project involving 35 volunteers, with commercial goals.

A game set in an underwater environment with a destructive

core mechanic and responsive narrative.

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See:

FriendshrimpTheGame.com

for more information about the game.

Responsibilities include:

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[Engineering]

• Directing team of engineers.

• Core gameplay interactions.

• Core back-end hierarchies.

• Constructing custom controller and state machines.

• Core mechanic implementation: intuitive "punch" mechanic with varying responses from targets.

• Vertex, geometry and surface shader animations for destruction vfx, "shrimp vision" highlighting system and static fish mesh animations.

• "Puzzle" system custom physics.

[Design]​

• Leading design of all core aspects of the game mechanics, environment, levels, puzzles and story.