Shadows of the Lost is a dark fantasy action RPG inspired by Souls-like titles, where players harness the corrupting power of shadow to battle forsaken gods and navigate a world consumed by betrayal and myth. Built in Unreal Engine 5.5, the game emphasizes punishing combat, atmospheric exploration, and systems that balance power with the ever-present risk of corruption.

Key contributions include developing a modular multi-type damage system (Physical, Fire, Frost, Lightning, Magic) with stat scaling and resistances, designing a fall damage system with lethal trace checks and scaling curves, implementing an Enemy Leash AI system that ties into designer-configurable behavior trees, creating the cinematic Fog Gate boss encounter system with cutscene integration and arena management, adding a transition loading screen to smooth texture streaming, and extending the State Manager and Gameplay Tags to unify combat, AI, and animation states. These systems were delivered on a tight timeline in preparation for the upcoming vertical slice milestone, ensuring the build showcased polished combat encounters, smooth AI behavior, and stable performance for presentation.

Developed by Bode Software using Unreal Engine 5

WWII Online: Chokepoint is a free-to-play, tactical World War II multiplayer FPS that emphasizes squad-based combat, close-quarters firefights, and large-scale battles. Built in Unreal Engine 5.3, the game delivers authentic WWII experiences with teamwork and strategy at its core.

My contributions included fixing critical weapon handling bugs, designing and implementing a loadout customization UI, optimizing multiplayer audio and replication systems for immersive 3D spatial sound, profiling and debugging performance bottlenecks, and collaborating cross-functionally with animators, audio designers, and UI/UX artists to deliver cohesive gameplay systems. I also worked extensively with Unreal’s profiling tools to identify and reduce network overhead, ensuring smooth online play. In addition, I focused on aligning audio and gameplay logic to improve immersion, making footsteps, ambient effects, and weapon sounds feel both responsive and reliable in multiplayer environments. These efforts helped stabilize the vertical slice build and improve overall playability during testing.

Developed by Playnet, Inc. using Unreal Engine 5

Perception is an award-winning narrative thriller that follows a blind woman’s harrowing journey to uncover the truth behind the mansion from her nightmares—before she becomes its next victim.

Relying on sound as her vision, Cassie navigates the eerie halls of the Estate at Echo Bluff, determined to piece together its dark past. But she’s not alone. A relentless entity known as The Presence stalks her every move. While sound is essential for her to see, every noise she makes risks drawing The Presence closer. She must carefully balance exploration and stealth to uncover the mansion’s secrets—and find a way to escape its grasp.

Key contributions include refactoring the player controller and pawn with a unique whistling mechanic, modifying the AI enemy state machine, implementing the game state saving system, developing and integrating the Steam achievement system, designing the options menu, refactoring the inventory system, adding and updating interactable objects, incorporating in-game cinematics via level blueprints, enhancing particle effects, conducting playtesting, and identifying and fixing bugs.

Developed by Deep End Games using Unreal Engine

Art Heist is a third-person action-adventure game blending stealth, exploration, and puzzle-solving. Players take on the role of Artie Thompson, a misunderstood teenage girl on a mission to steal priceless works of art and redistribute them to the poor.

The game’s environments—museums and mansions—are designed as intricate mazes filled with guards, drones, dogs, and traps that Artie must outmaneuver. As she progresses, she unlocks upgradable abilities essential for navigating increasingly complex challenges and aiding the less fortunate characters she encounters.

Contributions: Designed and developed key gameplay systems, including the main game loop, project creation and management, player controller and pawn mechanics, game state, game mode, stealth system, UI/UX, animation blueprints, level design, cover system, AI fine-tuning, menus, items, inventory, interactive objects, core stealing mechanics, as well as various 3D models and particle effects.

Co-developed with Greg St. Angelo and Josue Magallanes using Unreal Engine