Save the Castle!

SteamVR - January 2025

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Freely place towers and forge an unbreakable wall
Upgrade each of the three tower types to their ultimate potential
Lead your troops to victory on the front lines

Take over any tower you can see, and wield its weapon
Unleash devastation in intense VR combat
Launch arrows, guided missiles, fireballs, and more

Systems I built:

Wrote powerful map creation tools
Created editor tooling to quickly build, and iterate on, fun maps
Emphasis was given to enemy paths, creating a feeling of life-or-death war

Ran the marketing for Save the Castle!
Commissioned and directed talented artists to create a new logo and new trailer
Wrote and managed all social media, steam pages, public presence, etc

As well as...

Built the enemies, including custom pathfinding, ragdolls, animation states, etc
Wrote pause state, serialization, volume settings, and various other small but critical gameplay systems
Built an interactive main menu & VR splash screen
Created the tutorial level (in 48 hours!) to onboard new players in a safe environment
Organized and ran dozens of in-person playtests
Sourced and handled licensing for 3rd party assets
...and much, much more

Online multiplayer sandbox mode

From initial prototyping to final feature release in spring 2023

Worked with systems like custom skin selection, finding / joining games, porting all single player story environments to multiplayer sandbox maps, etc

We had to port over 3 years of legacy single-player codebase to a multiplayer paradigm, and do it in a way that would not break the existing story mode systems.
The senior developer and I created a clean unity project to prototype our implementation, then successfully transferred those ideas to the production codebase

Other features:

Built a custom localization importer / exporter from scratch

Built user requested quality-of-life tools, ensuring seamless gameplay

Handled bug fixes, controller support, patches, and other small but critical tasks, to maximize a development team of 2

VR Game Jams

I'm a programmer, so I am naturally a bit weird. This means I consider spending 48 hours making a video game to be a relaxing activity

Suburban Scallywags

June 2023

Rated 4th in enjoyment, 10th overall at VR Jam 2023, out of 130 entries
Built systems like the procedural neighborhood and package systems, as well as the police and pursuit loop
Built for standalone quest 2 with performance in mind

Itch.io link

Project Solaris

October 2023

Rated 6th in aesthetics at VR Halloween Jam 2023
UE5 Sci Fi adventure
Wrote all story, and built the narrative into the gameplay loop
Designed VR welding gameplay and other puzzles