Work
My Games
Bat Bots is a love letter game to arcade classics like Duck Hunt and Space Invaders. It is an arcade shooter that can be played solo, cooperatively or competitively.
I was involved in its development by adding multiplayer and the achievements system to the original prototype. In addition to that, I helped refine the AI movement to improve collision avoidance and implemented our data pipeline to collect play session analytics that helped us shape and balance our game.
The game was released on Steam in November, 2024. At time of this writing, it's been downloaded by over 300 people and sits at 100% positive reviews
Bat Bots
A tribute to the classics
Vessyl
The capstone to the RIT MS GDD program
Vessyl is a Roguelike beat'em up made with Unreal that is heavily inspired by the games like Hades, Slay the Spire, the Spiderman series and the Batman Arkham series.
In it, you play as one of the chosen followers of the goddess Meliora, tasked with infiltrating the temples of an opposing deity to restore your own to full power. Using your fists and divine abilities, you must overcome the intense challenges that await you amidst the darkened halls.
I've had many responsibilities throughout its development:
I developed all procedural generation systems that support the Roguelike experience, from the population of encounters down to the balancing of our reward systems
I led the development of our gameplay tutorials and onboarding, designing and implementing the many ways we communicate to the player how to play our game.
I composed all the music used in the game as well as did most of the sound engineering to conform all sound effects to our desired aesthetic
I storyboarded and implemented the cutscenes in our game.
Between Root and Bough
An approachable, cozy puzzle game
Between Root and Bough is a 3D puzzle game developed in Unity where you must combine and split with the slimes that make up the world in order to match the color of the gates that block your path. This game was developed as an approachable, cozy experience that was friendly for people who have little previous gaming experience.
My role in the team was centered around gameplay development. My focus was on the development of the camera and input, along with optimizing the performance of the system that populates the split UI.
Satire and critique from a place of love
This is a game made for our rapid prototyping course at RIT. We designed it as a response to a prompt to make a game with meaningful play.
As a team, we decided to touch on a subject that is very personal - the process of trying to find a job as students and aspiring developers. We love this industry and want to be a part of it, but the application process to jobs - especially with the advent of AI in the recruitment process - is one that feels opaque and was a subject we wanted to explore and share through gameplay.
My role in this game was the design and implementation of the skill development system and the AI grader that evaluates job applications. In addition to that, I developed the action cost system and made it extensible to harnessed as necessary by the UI.
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This is a platformer made for a prototyping course at RIT by a team of five people, including myself. We produced this prototype in 3 weeks.
What's special about it is that the tower rotates as the player moves, keeping the protagonist sprite centered on screen while giving the feel the world rotates in response to player actions
My major contributions to this project were the character and enemy designs and animations along with the behavior of the enemy AI. The code for the game can be found in this repository.
Twisted Spire
Mixing 2D and 3D
This game was made for a Game Development Processes class at the RIT MS in Game Design and Development program. It was a group project developed in Unity. My contributions to it were the design and implementation of the card-battle mini-game used for interrogating suspects. I designed and implemented the rule system, AI opponent, layout of the game elements, their animations and the integration with our dialogue system. I also proposed and implemented automated testing to improve code quality and test the behavior of the AI opponent.
This is the repository for our code, though my main contributions can be found in this specific section.
Detective's Gambit
A murder-mystery with a card-battle component
Web-based beginnings
I developed a prototype of this game as a project to learn front end web development and the use of the Canvas element in HTML. I liked the minimalist look and have kept it, to keep the focus on what the game tries to communicate.
It was also meant as a tribute to my partner, who supported me in pursuing my career pivot from Psychology to software development.
It can be played on amonjerro.github.io/labyrinth-game. The source code can be found here.
