The Science Of Dogball

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Inspired by a high school games project that was made in a web game creator, The Science of DogBall is a 2D infinite scroller experimenting with physics and magnetic forces. This was developed in a 2-day game jam, and this game marks the first game I have developed solo - along with my brother volunteering his time helping with the art and music. The theme of this game jam was "Magnets", and an added constraint of a 'stationery' camera.

When the theme of the game jam was announced, the first thing that instantly came into my mind was Sonic the Hedgehog's Homing Attack move. The Homing Attack involves Sonic locking onto a target, curling himself into a ball and rushing at the enemy at speed. While I could not quite figure out how to replicate the homing attack move into Unity, Sonic was in fact the main inspiration behind the mechanics of this game.

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• Project Date: September 2023

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Red Handed

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A point-and-click murder mystery game set in a mansion, and playing as a Detective solving the case. Developed with 3 others within 4 months, Red Handed is now available on Itch.io.
I was the animator (2D Tween) and marketing/social media manager of the game, where I produced devlogs during our game's development for our YouTube channel, YouTube shorts to promote the game, and engage our small audience on Twitter.

This project was a unique university project, in that we basically had to start from scratch, when we are supposed to continue from a project done in a past semester. We had to carefully plan what we had to do in our weekly scrum meetings, and ensure our work is done according to schedule. Again, we only had 4 months to present this project by the end of the semester.

I took the first 3 weeks of the project to learn how to do tween animation using Unity's animator. I was aware of other alternatives I could have used, but they were either outdated, or may require more time learning in. I used some sample sprites provided by Unity and practiced rigging sprites for tweening, while the rest of the team were figuring out Yarn Spinner - our narrative engine of choice, and rapidly prototyping gameplay interaction.

• Project Date: November 2022

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Issues

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A 2D platformer with a comic aesthetic. The concept of this game was inspired by superhero comics, and games like the The Henry Stickmin Collection (a choose-your-own-adventure game) and FRAMED (a puzzle game set in an animated comic book).
Issues was developed by a team of 4, with me being the animator (2D Frame), and Lead Playtester of the project.

The project was meant to represent a vertical slice of our game concept, and then further develop and polish in a later semester. As such, we focused more on the gameplay mechanics rather than the visuals. Still, I had the idea of frame animating the player stickman, after being inspired by various stickman animation videos on YouTube. I utilised Adobe Animate and Unity's 2D animation tools as my pipeline of this game.

At the time, I was still getting familiar with Unity C#, and I was responsible for implementing the animation system. I learnt how to use the Unity animator to control the animation states, and trigger events at a certain keyframe of an animation.

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• Project Date: April 2022

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Food Fight

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A short VR experience designed to energise players by dodging thrown food and shooting back at them. With assistance from Liminal VR, this was created and published on the Liminal Platform in 5 months, in a team of 6.
I was the animator (3D) and QA Tester for the project.

This was the first project where I learnt how to use Blender and Mixamo to animate the characters in Unity. While I got all the animation states I planned for implemented, I felt like there is a much better pipeline process for game animation. To be fair, I only had a short time to know how Blender and Unity can work together.

The team involves me as animator and QA, two software engineers, two artists, and two level designers, with some of my team members fulfilling multiple roles. As I was the only team member who owns a Meta Quest 2 headset, most of my time was testing new features implemented by the team. In fact, the game was originally going to feature a togglable shield that the player can use to block food. Not only we could not figure out the scale of the object correctly in the VR space, and get the controls working correctly, but we found that it defeated the purpose of an energising VR experience - we want the player to be moving constantly. We scrapped it and instead implemented two-handed food cannons.

Check out Liminal's release post on LinkedIn

• Client: Liminal VR
• Project Date: November 2022

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Discipline By Bonk

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A comedic survival game where you "bonk" children to stop them from growing and destroying the whole place. This was developed in a 2-day game jam, with 3 other team members, where the theme was "Micro/Macro", and an added constraint of a 3-colour palette.
I was the animator (3D) and music producer/sound designer of this game.
(This is actually the first game that I produced music for, considering I was learning music production at the time)

As I knew firsthand that animating the models from scratch will take a long time, and considering that I will make music for this game, I relied on Mixamo to animate the children models and speed up the process. The way they run around the classroom adds to the comedic nature of the game, in my opinion. I also had the idea of turning the bonked children into ragdolls as a way to add feedback to the player when they successfully hit a child, although the ragdoll physics are probably too... exaggerated.

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• Project Date: April 2023

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Bob Card Game

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A 1v2 Card Battle game where 'fighters' - a group of 2 players - must coordinate together to defeat 'Bob' - a solo player.
The decks were designed so that Bob would have cards powerful enough to stand against 2 players, while the fighters' decks have strategic cards that can buff themselves or debuff Bob, along with your standard damage cards. The card game was inspired by Yu-gi-oh, and Magic the Gathering.

The Bob Card game was designed by 3 others, with me being the original concept designer of this game.

Fun Fact - the origin of 'Bob' was from a worldbuilding exercise in a practical class, in which we built a concept world around an angry individual named 'Bob', who would cause mass destruction of the whole village he lives in. We liked our concept so much, we extended it further by creating this game.

• Project Date: June 2021

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Ghr

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GHR (Gun Handling Realism) is an uncompleted but ambitious VR project to create a Gun Simulator with high fidelity and realism. That is; interactable gun parts, reloading operation, recoil and more. The project used Unity's XR Interaction Toolkit to enable interaction development.

The original scope was to create a realistic pistol and a rifle for players to interact with, not realising how complicated this actually is. Within 3 months, I was only able to create a 'usable' pistol that can only remove and insert its magazine, and shoot infinitely.

Although I could not deliver my inital scope, I still learnt a lot of VR development, and I may end up starting again from scratch... although with a different framework and more research.

An .APK that you can sideload onto a Meta Quest 2 headset will be made available to download soon.

• Project Date: November 2022

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