Guide the trains to their destinations!
Winner of Bear Jams Fall 2022.
Estimated playtime of 5-10 minutes.

A simple puzzle game, made for UC Berkeley's Bear Jams Fall 2022, a 45-hour game jam held from October 28th to October 30th.

I led our impromptu team of 6 by establishing a clear project vision and breaking down the tasks required to reach our own destination.

A turn-based RPG with visual novel-style story cutscenes.
The demo contains about an hour of content.

Follow an unlikely trio on their journey up to defeat the Obsidian Drake atop Anvite Mountain. Features a unique Augment Battle System, allowing players to modify moves to create various effects.

Trailthread has been in development since Spring 2020. I am responsible for the game's pixel art and helped with the design and production process. I currently help with testing and polish. (Made in a team of 4.)

A bite-sized JRPG experience (~5-10 minutes). I was the project lead, along with being the sole pixel artist and programming lead on a team of 4. Ghost Quest was the first experience I completed.

Play as a ghost who was kicked out of your body by an evil force. Left with the power to travel between the material and spiritual world, embark on a journey to take your body back from the rude being that robbed you.

Made for UC Berkeley's Game Design and Development DeCal course.
(Course information | "What is a DeCal?")

CS 184: Computer Graphics

Spring 2022

My project writeups from UC Berkeley's Computer Graphics course. I programmed various computer graphics-related projects, including a ray-tracer, a cloth simulator, various shaders, a triangle mesh generator, a rasterizer, and more.
For the class's final project, I led a team of 4 in implementing a cel shader in Unity's Universal Render Pipeline.

A 15-20 minute, top-down, 2D adventure RPG.
Four people wake up in an unfamiliar setting and must work together to unravel the mysteries behind their circumstances. No clear answers are presented, but even so, a decision must be made, and you must press on…

Made using the Godot Engine (ver. 3.5) as a side project with a team of 8. Development spanned spring to summer 2023, with polish lasting from fall to winter 2023.

This was my first time recruiting people for a project--it was also my first time acting as an interviewer rather than interviewee. I acted as creative director, producer, and lead programmer. I learned a lot about Godot, project management, and what goes into directing a game as I taught my fellow programmers and myself the engine parallel to development.

A 2D pixel RPG with fourth-wall breaking elements at its core.
Take control of Will, a young boy, in a game whose contents have been corrupted for mysterious reasons. The game makes use of "metapuzzles," where players must move game files around or do other "meta" tasks beyond the game window to solve puzzles.

Free Will was made with a team of 20 as an MFA thesis project for USC's Interactive Media and Games department. It began development in Summer 2023 and released on Steam for Windows on May 7, 2024.

As producer, I acted as the director's assistant in delegating tasks, solving production issues, and communicating across departments. In addition, my role as art lead lended me a strong vision for how the game should look and feel to play. My background in programming was helpful in communicating to the programming team about asset implementation and general game feel.

As the art lead, I primarily assigned tasks to our team's 3 other artists and drew all sprite animations. If it's pixel and it moves, it was drawn by me. The game's UI style—namely its dialogue, inventory, and battle screens—were also designed by me.

A 15-20 minute story about Poly, a sentient eraser dealing with sentient eraser problems.
Available for Windows and Mac, though please play the Windows version if you can. I couldn't figure out how to make a shader work for the Mac build, so it is technically inferior.

The game was made for Tracy Fullerton's game design class at USC with Unity, using her experience goal-oriented proccess of game development and design. I was lead programmer, and worked with two classmates to make the game in about a month during winter 2023. We released it a few months later once I had time to add finishing touches to the game to address final playtest feedback we received.

Overall I'm quite satisfied with how this game came out, and the process that went into crafting the game is one that resonated with me as well. I've always tried to place heavy focus on player experience, so Prof. Fullerton's method felt like a more mature version of what I'd previously been striving to accomplish.

A social simulation game partially inspired by Shakespeare's Richard III.
Popular kid Richard reveals his dark machinations to the main character and player alone, leaving it up to them to save the school from his schemes. Players must win the trust of Richard's close friends and mend their broken relationships with each other to stand any chance of achieving a happy ending.

Like Free Will, Richard was an MFA thesis project for USC's Interactive Media and Games department. Production started in early Summer 2024, not too long after Free Will released. Release is projected for the end of 2025 or early 2026.

As lead producer, I attended around 90% of team meetings and managed all teams with help from department leads. As always, I handled cross-departmental communications, timelines, and task management. The team was 34 students, the largest team I've managed to date, and I learned a lot from the process.

An unconventional bullet hell where you cannot shoot bullets: instead, you can punch bullets back at enemies, or fly up to enemies and punch them head-on.

You play as an immortal lobster flying through space. Lobsters were chosen as the focus because are theoretically immortal animals. Their telomeres do not break down, meaning they do not age past a certain point, and their primary cause of death, other than humans, is stress from trying to molt their shells if they get too large. Thus begs the question, "what happens if a lobster never dies of stress"? Naturally, that enlightened lobster would grow so large it would no longer be able to remain on Earth and take to the stars, as it does in this game.

Development has been sporadic and primarily done whenever I get an excuse to work on the idea. The game's first concept was made in my high school computer science final project made in my junior year, which was my first foray into Unity. The idea has since stayed with me, and I made a prototype of the core gameplay in two weeks for a different class assignment in 2024 using Godot. It then sat waiting for when I found the right excuse to develop the game further. That excuse was my master's capstone project (January - May 2025).

I was able to flesh out the game with help from two classmates who got assigned to my project, and after graduation I have been working solo on it for the final release. I've drafted more ideas for Lobstar which have potential for a premium title, but this free release of the game focuses on its gameplay and the backend pipeline of making the levels and enemies.

H. Poly Eraser in: A Sketchy Situation

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