Chonky-19

An anthropomorphic cat ventures into a grocery store armed with a mask and disinfectant to protect itself from COVID-19. A 3D shooter inspired by the current pandemic.

"Play on itch.io" takes you to the main game page.

Gameplay Mechanics

Designed and implemented combat interaction (projectiles, player/enemy damage, enemy attack behavior, boss fights), enemy wave manager, items spawning in random locations, cat animation blend tree, etc.

Lighting

Lighting artist for all levels, designed to become more sinister over course of game

Weapon / Character Stats

Created concept art and designed character stats and weapon properties

Base 3D Cat Model

Modeled base cat model in Blender

3D Cat and Weapon Models

Modeled / textured 3D cat and weapon models in Blender

Animations

Animated 3D cat model (idle, standing & shooting, running forwards, running forwards & shooting, running backwards)

Player Characters

Created 7 possible cat characters for team to vote on

Enemy Characters

Created concept art and designed behaviors of common enemies and two boss enemies for player to fight

Environment

Created concept art for game environments

Granny Character

Designed Granny character concept

2D Art Assets

Created art assets for dialogue screen and icons (achievements, grocery items, passives, stats)

packets

A short, relaxing game where you play as a packet of data traversing through cyberspace to help deliver a message that you typed at the start of the game. Created for the (Women Game Jam 2020).

Programming, Models, Animations, VFX

Implemented all of the gameplay mechanics from scratch (movement, item collectible magnet, shield, key towers, obstacles, dialogue, etc) and created necessary assets

Custom Message and Ending

Explores the theme that people are "together even apart" through their connection through technology and integrated into game narrative

Game Design

Designed game to have minimal text instructions, rounded objects help the player while spikey objects hurt the player

duckball

Play as an optimistic-looking beach ball to bounce on peoples' heads and eat trash on a beach because a duck said so. A short 3D game with 2D assets created for a 2-week game jam (I Can't Draw But Want to Make a Game (Again)).

"Play on itch.io" takes you to the main game page. Towards the bottom of the page are my development logs if interested.

Programming and Art Assets

Implemented all of the gameplay mechanics from scratch (movement, sticky items, growing volume, platforms that launch player in direction of normal vector, scoring, time limit, etc) and created 2D assets to fit jam theme

UI, Animations, Multiple Endings

Implemented basic UI (title screen, dialogue system, score display, timer display), created simple idle animations for each NPC in game, implemented 4 different ending dialogues depending on score and which endings were unlocked

Honorable Mention

Received an Honorable Mention out of 395 submissions to the I Can't Draw But Want to Make a Game (Again) game jam

tear

A story-driven puzzle platformer focusing on the struggles of anxiety. You must switch between playing two characters to solve the puzzles in order to progress through the game. This was my first game project outside of tutorials, so I wanted to keep the gameplay simple to implement and focus on the narrative. Although I have not completed it, I learned a lot from working on this project (working on a game from scratch, designing a narrative-driven game, gaining basic exposure to Autodesk Maya).

Programming

Implemented all of the gameplay mechanics from scratch (movement, item powerups, toggle between two characters, moving and bouncy platforms, interactable switches, animations)

Game Design

Created narrative to fit gameplay mechanics. See "Plot Outline" in the GDD for specifics.

3D Model

Modeled, rigged, and animated player character in Autodesk Maya

Character Concept

Created concept art for the two playable characters

Environment Concept

Created environment concepts with specific color palettes to fit narrative

Storyboard

Created storyboard for first planned cut scene

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