Portfolio

These are all the nontrivial side projects written outside of work (You can find a list of projects I've done professionally on my resume). They're all web based, since distributing C++ programs is a pain, so I don't bother putting those up (In the future I might put up videos of these up in lieu of a download or play online link).

Trivial web-based demos and other small one-offs can be found on my codepen.

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  Bloody Tentacles: Play Online

  My entry into Ludum Dare 33 (Fall 2015). This is a post-jam version (the actual entry can be found here, and submission here).

  • 2D Canvas, no engine. Only libraries used were es5,6-shim, and howler.js for webaudio support. (Though I was unhappy with howler.js, due to occasional audio gaps in looping).
  • Features crazy tentacle physics, tons of particles, and blood splatters.
  • All art and music done by me.
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  Argh: Play Online

  A software 3D rendering engine pretending to be an unfinished first person shooter. Aesthetically inspired by Minecraft (the art is all mine though). Points of interest:

  • Uses only the (2d) HTML5 canvas, meaning it's very portable. (When this was written, WebGL was not as well supported as it is now).
  • Fast. Manages to stay fairly close to 60fps on most browsers and computers. (Admittedly, it doesn't have to push very many pixels).
  • Performs everything (transformation, texture mapping, lighting,post processing, etc), in software. Only uses hardware acceleration for nearest neighbor upscale at the end.
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  9 (aka Nine): Play Online (requires browser Java plugin), Download JAR

  A top-down shmup. One of my first games. Points of interest:

  • Procedurally generated levels.
  • Parallax scrolling background.
  • Bullets ricochet off level geometry.
  • Minimap displaying the level geometry, entity postions, etc.
  • Multiple types of guns, enemies, powerups.
  • Ship upgradable after every level.
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  Hex: Play Online

  A hexagonal cellular automata simulator (Think Conway's Game of Life meets one of the Civilization games, or Settlers of Catan). Extremely nerdy, but fairly nice looking. Points of interest:

  • Supports customizable rules.
  • Fairly performant (framerate capped to 20fps, but typically it computes the next frame in under 16ms).
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  Crashed on Minutiae Prime: Play Online

  A game written in 72 hours for the 23rd Ludum Dare game development competition, for the theme of "Tiny World". Points of interest:

  • Procedurally generated world with biome-like regions.
  • Marching Squares-like algorithm used to smooth out the rendering of the world (e.g. to place shores between ground and lakes).
  • All art generated algorithmically. This was a pain. (When it was written, there were few (if any) tools available to export vector art in a format that would be easy to consume in JS and draw on a 2d canvas, and I wanted to avoid pixel art for this game).