Frontend Mentor Challenge
My submission for a Frontend Mentor challenge which was done as a self-challenge to reinforce my vanilla JavaScript skills. The instructions were to create an FAQ accordion based on image mockups and implement hide/show accordion functionality.
POC Demo
A scroll-driven animation demo on CodeSandbox using the Intersection Observer API. Cards animate onto the page as the user scrolls down and when the last card is visible new cards are generated which creates an infinite scroll effect.
POC Demo
A CodeSandbox demo created as a self-challenge to test weather animating a sprite sheet using only vanilla CSS was possible. I completed the challenge in one night and wrote an article to document my experience.
Take-Home Challenge (3 days)
My submission for a take home challenge as part of an interview process. The challenge was to create an application to fetch and display a frequently updated dataset via API. The application had to update data live, include list and details pages, and be responsive. I used the coincap.io API to fetch and display cryptocurrency data on a 30 second interval. I implemented a persistent favorites system using local storage, pagination with 'show more' and 'show less' buttons, and skeleton components to minimize layout shifts.
Digital Resume and Portfolio
You are currently viewing this project! I created this website using NextJS to act as a hub for my portfolio and resume. The source code is openly available and demonstrates my iterative development style. This project is in the late MVP stage with QoL and visual improvements on the pipeline. You can view the project board and git history to see the most recent and upcoming changes.
Self-Challenge
A self-challenge to create an application with intentionally miserable UX by locking text 'characters' behind a paywall. It features a simulated a login page environment in which the user must purchase 'characters' through a micro-transaction store. This project was created for fun as an avenue to improve my skills with Redux.
Take-Home Challenge (one week)
I built this project as part of a one week take-home challenge. I was given mock data in an excel sheet and tasked with designing a database and a full stack application to manage and display user data.
Learning Exercise
I built this full stack application as a learning exercise. This project is a mock e-commerce website with a virtual storefront for 'buying' dogs. Though it is no longer live, I did establish an autodeploy pipeline using Azure DevOps. Controllers access SQL data using linq statements and leverage VueJS to display and modify data.
Original Version
A website I created as an avenue to learn NextJS, GitHub pages, and publicly host a portfolio of my work to market myself as a freelance web developer. This was the original concept of my current website.
Personal Project
Necro VS Crown is an ambitious multiplayer browser game currently in development. It was originally a single player POC known as Necro Cursor. Necro VS Crown has two factions with opposing goals and distinct mechanics. While playing as the Necro, you control a lowly necromancer and amass an army of skeletons that you have direct control over. While playing as the Crown, you collect gold over time that can be spent to spawn units that will automatically chase and attack Necro units. The former is akin to the 'survivor' rogue-like genre, while the latter is akin to the deck building rogue-like genre.
POC Demo
Necro Cursor is an experimental POC browser game in which you play as a lowly necromancer who must defend himself from a horde of angry townsfolk. Summon skeletons from the bones of your enemies to defend you and survive as long as you can!
Game Jam (Summer Slow Jam 2023)
Dwarf Forges is a 3D RTS style game built with Unity. The team consisted of 3 developers, 1 artist, and 1 sound engineer. Dwarf Forges is a game where you play as an enchanted forge and must save yourself from a horde of Dwarves who intend to drag you back to their fortress. Smelt down your enemies into metal bars and use them to forge a variety of unique weapons. Use those weapons to fend off the dwarves until there are none left!
I was the team lead and a developer for this project. As the team lead I created tickets, assembled meetings, lead collaborative brainstorming sessions, documented game mechanics and code standards, and guided team decisions. As a developer I implemented various features (camera movement, animation, game state), managed the repository, and conducted code reviews.
Game Jam (7DRL Challenge 2022)
Tossed away was a submission for the 7DRL Challenge (a one week game jam) in 2022. The team consisted of 2 developers, 2 artists, 1 sound designer, and 1 musician. In Tossed Away, you play as a skeleton who was summoned to fetch a cook book. You use your bones to destroy runic pillars and fend off enemies as you venture through your master's lair. Be careful! Throwing your last bone results in death. Don't make your master send in a replacement...
I was a developer and technical artist for this project. My primary tasks involved implementing animation logic, item interactions, scene management, environment integration, and contributing to the character controller.
Game Jam (Metroidvania Month 13)
Blood & Gold is a submission for the 'Metroidvania Month 13' Game Jam. The team consisted of 2 developers, 3 artists, 1 sound designer, and 1 musician. Blood & Gold is a game in which you play as a brave cowboy who delves into a forgotten mine that he should have left forgotten. Venture through the mines with a revolver to fend off corrupted enemies and a lantern to light your way. Fend off zombies and mutant insects in order to find the key and unlock the golden gate. Discover hidden paths, special challenges, bonus items, and easter eggs. Find and defeat the foreman to earn a special weapon, if you dare! Defeat the mutant canary to end the mine's corruption and become a hero.
I played a pivotal role in assembling the team and organizing collaborative game design and planning meetings. As a developer I implemented all animation logic, lantern and lighting logic, modular item interaction, health and death mechanics, game state, scene transitions, and I contributed to the character controller and state management. As a technical artist I converted sprite sheets into animations and tile sets, implemented UI and Game Menu, and painted environment using tile sets based on level layout mockup. I also continued development of the project post-submission and squished bugs, added features, implemented player feedback, improved the player's weapon animations, and created animations for some enemies.