Ultra Dance Murder is a fast paced twin stick arcade shoot em' up hybrid with a heart pounding synthwave soundtrack, glitch art aesthetic, dance inspired combat, and local multiplayer gameplay that either builds or destroys friendships. Student Showcase Finalist 2018 Dreamhack Austin & USC Games Expo 2018.
www.ultradancemurdergame.com[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ console ] [ solo ] [ 20s ] [ teens ]
Centering around photographer Reagan Louie’s trips to his ancestral home of Wing Wor, this game tells a multigenerational story of immigration, search for identity, and meaning of family. The project was initially started as a USC MFA thesis project by Ralston Louie, whose life was tragically cut short and taken forward by his friends at AmaVR and family. I served as the lead technical artist/designer designing levels and scripting interactions. Norminated for Games for Change 2023 Best Student Game award.
Password Protected Link[ awards ] [ vr ] [ 20s ]
A birthday game made for my friend Dan inside Unreal Engine 5.
Itch[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
Payment is an augmented reality 6DOF animated short film developed in a week as an animation pipeline test. Showcased at Micro Beaf 2023 experimental animation festival.
Itch.io[ ar ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
Talking scale that flirts, questions its existence, and gives positive affirmations. An interactive art piece made for D23's Drift Back Art Show. A commentary piece on the nature of body image self esteem issues during new years resolutions.
Itch.io[ awards ] [ ar ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
A personalized art museum exhibit in VR made for my friend 凌岚's birthday and modded inside Bonelab using the Marrow SDK.
Mod.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
Research & development prototyping contract work for RocketJump,LLC. Worked closely with client to solely create a playable prototype of a multiplayer first person shooter within a two week timeline. Creating original art, animations, performances, and scripting various mechanics and 3 unique minigames within an example level to get the targeted feel of the final experience. Providing a detailed live burndown chart, documentation, and design notes for further use by other devs / vendors.
Password Protected Link[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
2 hour VR 360 film & volumetric 6DOF recreation of my sister's wedding and reception.
Itch.io[ vr ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
Collection of 10 short experimental games in various platforms and genres made for loved ones. Bringing greeting cards into the 21st century and elevating them to something more meaningful. Official selection for Chainsaw Game & Music Festival 2021.
Itch.io[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ mobile ] [ ar ] [ vr ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
A cinematic labyrinth adaptation of Susanna Clarke's Piranesi made for USC CTIN 290 made in Unreal. Collaborated with composer rexyuwu and directed actors Ben Wendel & Sarah Harmon.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
Help your grandma reset her Facebook password in a voice controlled multiplayer text adventure comedy game that can be played over Zoom. Best played with a MagicJack® usb landline phone handset adapter. Official selection for Chainsaw Game & Music Festival 2021 & USC Games Expo 2021.
Itch.io[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ altctrl ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
Zen rock stacking VR game that teaches mindfulness. Worked on the implementation of the stacking mechanic on a team of 4, writing the copy & and prepping the media materials. Made with the support of Oculus Launchpad 2020.
Oculus App Lab[ vr ] [ 20s ]
Worked on the content creation team on cookie walks, in game events with collections of levels, for this sweet match 3 as Jam City's first ever game design intern.
Google Play[ mobile ] [ 20s ]
Did motion capture cleaning, characterizing, and pipeline work on various cutscenes, animation cycles, and finisher moves in Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War at Activision Central Tech as the Egerton character tech art intern Summer 2020.
Blizzard Shop[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ console ] [ aaa ] [ 20s ]
AR/VR experience about a struggling artist, seeking acceptance from her traditional Chinese mother. Served as a technical designer, animator, tech artist, and engineer on the interactive VR components within a team of 35. Made possible in collaboration with Facebook API@AR/VR. BAFTA Student Film Awards Finalist & 2020 Games for Change Alcove VR honorable mention.
Oculus Store[ awards ] [ ar ] [ vr ] [ 20s ]
Capacitive touch 3D maze to test how steady your hands can be. Fully featured with lives, visual LED and audio feedback. Made with a circuit playground and paperclips.
Video Documentation[ altctrl ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
A print & play puppet show videogame rooted in childhood disappointment. Made for USC Experimental Game Design - the "Bad Game" experiment.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ altctrl ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
A short voice controlled full motion video puppet storybook to bring you some solace. Made for USC Experimental Game Design - the "Identity" experiment
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ altctrl ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
You never really did get that closure, but that's okay. Bird Hunk is here for you. Process rejection in any SteamVR compatible headset. Made for USC Experimental Game Design - the "Intimacy" experiment.
Itch.io[ vr ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
Realtime binaural hyptext coming of age adventure horror game about ICE. Made in collaboration with Nhi L Trinh for USC Experimental Game Design - the "Activist" experiment
Github (use Firefox)[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
VR longform docudrama about finding digital comfort in dire distress. A 6DOF recreation of a livestream from inside a broken and falling elevator. USC Games Expo 2020 selection, Chainsaw Film Festival winner of Best Game Audio, Featured on front page of SideQuestVR.
Gamejolt[ vr ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
A pervasive game for incoming SCA students - serving the Reality Comittee as a game master, trouble maker, puzzle maker, and liminal mechanic scare tactics curator. Recipient of the 2012 IndieCade Impact Award.
Wiki[ awards ] [ analog ] [ 20s ]
VR fantasy-action brawler with gestural controls and pulse pounding vfx. Featured at the 2019 USC Games Expo. Responsible for mocap shoot floor supervision, data cleanup, characterizing, retarget, and rigging polish.
Itch.io[ awards ] [ vr ] [ 20s ]
In 2019 there was an End Game fan theory about Ant Man defeating Thanos by going up his butt and expanding, it was only a matter of time until someone (me) made it in VR. I created a 3D pre-rendered stereoscopic VR short where you travel into the depths of Thanos’s digestive tract alongside Ant Man.
Gamejolt[ vr ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
Post Hello is a 3rd person narrative about experiencing life from the eyes of a delivery-man searching for fulfilment in his work. It's a game about dropping off packages & delivering on sincerity. Lead designer and artist on team of 5. Showcased at DU Arcade 2019 & Dizzy Spell 2020
Gamejolt[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ 20s ]
Educational Lo-Fi chillhop and study beats to transcend nirvana. From Eilmer of Malmesbury to The Wright Brothers, explore a lively take on virtual pinball at a relaxed tempo. Made solo within a week for Final Finish Something Jam. A fun exercise in animation and dynamic soundtracks for games.Showcased at DU Arcade 2019.
Itch.io[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ mobile ] [ solo ] [ 20s ]
A cute historical edutainment game about being a recently divorced tour guide on the Gettysburg National Military Park. It teaches history about the civil war and is the most realistic tour guide simulation on the market. Seen at the USC Undergraduate Symposium & Games Expo & Minefaire LA 2019. Project lead in team of 2.
Gamejolt[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ 20s ]
A puzzle-platformer where you explore a plastic-ridden world. Traverse flooded cities and ravaged lands as you make choices that profoundly change both gameplay and your future. I was an environmental artist for the USC CTIN-489 (oringinal) prototype of this advanced game project titled "Disposable". Worked within a team of 6.
Steam[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ teens ]
Seinfeld / Bee Movie bullet hell parody made within a week as an inside joke.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
Recreated Atari 2600's Boxing. This recreation is made for educational purposes only, non-commercial. All rights reserved to original creators & copyright owners. Added gamepad & rumble support. Designer on team of two.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
A mysterious executable appears on your hard drive. Take a pyschological exam, Rorschach tests, moral dilemas, and torture for the greater good. A chilling and unnerving horror experience that won't let you play it twice.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
A cute and addictive mobile platformer ode to Zorba's dance that rewards you for making close calls and risking it all. Made within an afternoon.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ mobile ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
4 Player keyboard racing game with completely different control schemes for each character. Essentially, keyboard Twister that showcases your favorite outdated memes.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
A number guessing comedy game where you can comfort or chastise a deeply disturbed man just trying to hold onto something. Including a fully voiced & subtitled wizard and dynamic number guessing system made within an afternoon.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
In this first person immersive intergalactic dating sim, finesse Jar Jar to join the sith. Complete with a fully interactive toilet, branching dialogue options, and dynamic soundtrack. Made for Jar Jar Jam. Featured in Venture Beat.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
A mobile game about how online dating dehumanizes people in the 21st century. A narrative swiping simulator that leaves you feeling bad about yourself. Made for Reality Ends Here and selected for the Acción Latinx LIFE 2018 Showcase.
Itch.io[ awards ] [ mobile ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
An experimentation on how we experience "place". Explore an environment with only haptic feedback and echo location, photographs, and memories. An immersive audiovisual bath. Made for GESM 120g 'Power of Place'Humanities Lab.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ vr ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
A pervasive game about love set inside the USC campus. Think Gone Home, but an IRL scavenger hunt with letters inside trees and hard to reach places. A game that took weeks to make within a team of 3, but was only played once.
Gamejolt[ analog ] [ teens ]
A transportable single player escape room made out of cardboard complete with sturdy furniture and thick walls that starts with you locking yourself in. Showcased at various pop up locations around LA, later recycled.
Gamejolt[ awards ] [ analog ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
Solve the nation's most difficult problems with fridge magnets and jumping jacks. A card game simulation and mockery of Trump's presidency.
Landing Page[ analog ] [ teens ]
A Swedish print n' play auction game with a traitor, random objects, and many laughs. Made within a week with a team of 4.
Gamejolt[ analog ] [ teens ]
A Print & Play Office Board Game for Productive People. A game where you exploit others to get ahead to only hit rock bottom. A competitive grind where someone gets to be the trashcan. Made within a week with a team of 4.
Gamejolt[ analog ] [ teens ]
A relaxing meditative and Zen like first person vaporwave skateboarding game. You play as a skater on the brink of life and death collecting aesthetics to reach enlightenment in skate-purgatory whilst trying to expiate your sins, help lost souls, find meaning in life and closure in death. Showcased at Queertech.io's RMIT Gallery in Melbourne 2019, Acción Latinx LIFE 2018 Showcase, SXSW 2017, and featured on PCGamer, Destructoid, and Hardcore Gamer.
Steam[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
What if Marco Polo could tweet in 1271? An educational twitter simulator comedy game.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
Personal interactive dream journal & diary that focuses on getting to understand a person through an interpretation of their dreams, thoughts, fears, desires, and past work. Honorable mention 2017 Independent Game Festival (Best Student Game), Student Finalist Showcase 2017 SXSW Gaming. Featured on Polygon & Rock Paper Shotgun.
Steam[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
The original prototype of the 5+ year long passion project Ultra Dance Murder. An enjoyable multiplayer twinstick shooter with multiple game modes each more challenging than the last. Showcased at Colorado Clutch Con 2015.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
A non linear one act play made in Twine that is a long vent without any context.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
Juggle paying bills and playing an mmo. The Grind is a life ritual simulator made for global game jam 2016 within a team of 6.
Global Game Jam Page[ desktop ] [ teens ]
A brief-ish lecture about theoretical physics and life. Educational theoretical physics comedy walking sim.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ teens ]
A local two player tug of war space arcade shooter. A reinvention of joust in an autotargeting, astroid evading, rock paper scissors hodgepodge with classical music and multiple maps.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
A game about choice, the philosophy of choice, the absurdity of choice. Over 100 unique endings, multiple storylines, madness. A twine game that took years to write that was mostly written as a middleschooler and finished as a high schooler that cannot be feasibly made into a flow chart.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
I worked as a design intern at Serenity Forge summer of 2015. Team of 10. I designed and programmed ~50 waves and their various permutations (randomized) in this non-violent bullet hell shooter that teaches you to make friends. Showcased at the Smithsonian.
Steam[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ console ] [ teens ]
A personal coming out story disguised as a generic space action game. Learn about bisexual erasure, engage in space combat, run through racing thoughts, bullet time first person action, fear of judgement. A jarring experience indeed.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
You are the bullet, you get shot, you get the game narrated to you, make a deal with Gabe Newell. Made for 7dfps. PEWDIEPIE played this.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
Transcendentalist music-video-game with accessible input and beautiful low poly vistas. Inspired by the Rocky Mountains, Colorado River, and a simpler life.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
Ice skate doodle to upbeat music and share your creations with others.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
Third person arcade space shooter with time manipulation mechanics and a sense of humor. Groovy soundtrack, greeting cards, emails, explosions, inappropriate jokes and 18th century french poets.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
A very short and sad game about a bouler who can't make any friends. Made in 3 hours for weird jam.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
If Pong and Breakout had a baby, this would be that game. An exercise in game juice.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
Minimalist autorotating top down shooter. Made for IndieE3Jam. A tense game of precision and positioning that mixes twinstick with strategy.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ mobile ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
A game I made for my friend Matisse. Made during glitchjam. It's a game about what it is to be a cool kid and being happy at all costs. Featured at MAGFest 2019 as part of the Babycastles exhibition.
Itch.io[ awards ] [ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
A touching experience with cleaning bots, milk cartons, lost levels, car rides, and the meaning of life itself.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
First person photography and action shooter sim made for cyberpunk jam.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ solo ] [ teens ]
First person french puzzle game of teleportation.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
A family adventure with difficult choices and strong bonds. A game about blowing up a cat orphanage and escaping the five-o. First person action adventure trip.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
Inspired by thirty flights of loving, telling a cinematic first person story of humanity in two minutes.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ teens ]
Interactive dream journal and discarded prototypes diary. Original 7dfps 2013 prototype of the later recreated Awkward Dimensions Redux. This was the first game of mine to get an article review, from the infamous and no longer existant Indie Statik.
Itch.io[ desktop ] [ teens ]
A 2D pixel art sidescrolling RPG about the end of the world.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
Atmospheric horror game that takes place on a large island including multiple endings.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
Exploration in first person level design to make people feel specific emotions (none of them positive).
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
To Kill A Mockingbird turned into a horror game complete with Boo Radley jump scares and classical music accompaniment from a professional jazz musician.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
Cinematic game adaptation of the classic book. You play in Lenny's dream of the future.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
An angst ridden atmospheric minimalist rage quit puzzle platformer with 50 levels, large OST, and continuous haiku. The sequel to The Last Input. My first large scale game.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
An addictive and ultra simple game of balance that get's subtly more difficult with each level.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
Minimalist platformer love story. First game of mine to get a let's play.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
Horror game made educational. Learn algebra while running for your life.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
A top down zombie shooter prototype with a focus on lighting design.
Gamejolt[ desktop ] [ teens ]
My first game. A refreshingly depressing platformer made from a design constraint. Talk to cats for life advice, avoid the snow, complete with two endings.
Gamejolt