Game developer in Ontario, Canada, with 9+ publicly released games made solo, in small teams, and on contract. I build prototypes fast and find the route to a core mechanic that holds up. Programming work centres on 3C, AI behaviours, interaction systems and inventory.
Prior to game dev, my career was spent designing processes and systems in healthcare and manufacturing environments, which is where the documentation habit, the rule-set thinking, and the skills for running collaborative sessions come from.
A small open world built from custom tilesets and bespoke set pieces, where a dog digs trails, sniffs out secrets, and earns Scout Badges.
Contributions
Character, camera and control system built on finite state machines and tuned to feel toy-like; a quest, dialogue and reward loop tied to ability progression; creature and NPC AI with shared state machines plus per-species behaviours for flying, herding and following.
A cozy, zen-like game about power washing pixelated worlds clean. I joined the team to design levels, content, and balance the economy.
Contributions
Level, content, and economy design: over 50 levels taken from whitebox to polish, mechanics and puzzles built around the washing pixels, economy and progression balancing, plus the planning workflow the team used for level and economy work. Also drafted prototypes for unannounced content.
Design docs
A virtual pet that brings the tactile feel of a 1997 handheld to a touch screen. Averaging 4.6 stars with 75% day-seven retention.
Contributions
Touch interactions designed to simulate physical handheld toys; a pet simulation whose behaviours and events vary with how it's cared for; four mini-games including fishing and an ice cream shop sim; shop, inventory and save systems; rewarded ads and in-app purchases.
A skill-tree twist on auto-battler RPGs. Praised by judges for its combat system, art style, UI and sound design.
Contributions
Design: co-designed the core concept; owned combat layout, UI and story.
Underwater stealth survival-horror. Scavenge equipment to defend a deep sea base. Recognised for aesthetics, sound and story progression.
Contributions
Design and programming: story progression, open level design, player interactions, UI, sound and VFX; built the 3C, AI behaviours, dialogue, inventory, quest system and physics.
Play Cthylla, daughter of the recently deceased Cthulhu, harvesting humans to keep the family business going. Took first in Overall Rating, Uniqueness, and Enjoyability.
Contributions
Design: core loop, combat, progression / balance, and sound.
Design docs
A mythical army lays siege to the Empress' palace. Use parries and the blood of enemies to strengthen your resolve in this samurai side scroller. Top ten for fun factor and visuals.
Contributions
Design: core gameplay, level design, scenarios.
Design docs
An isometric puzzle adventure through an ancient tomb, built around a 3D-to-2D perspective mechanic.
Contributions
Design and programming: player interactions and the 3D-to-2D mechanic, puzzle and event systems, dialogue system, level layout, plus art and sound.
Design docs
Expanded the jam build into a larger stealth prototype.
Highlights
Third-person aiming with Z-locking, a branching map built filled with environmental interactions to reward stealth, O2 tanks and generators gating access to new bases, and complex behaviours to create an ecosystem of sharks, divers, crabs and fish.
Partially on-rails space combat with physics-driven controls.
Highlights
A tractor beam for pulling and throwing, multi-targeting and homing missiles, dashes, and maps built by a custom wave-function-collapse generator that carves purpose-built pathways in 3D space.
Design docs
A 3D platformer about jumping off zombie heads.
Highlights
Build up momentum points with well-timed jumps and rail slides. Use them to jump higher or perform dive-bomb attacks that breaks obstacles and displaces enemies.
