STEVE'S PORTFOLIO

Ashes to Ashes

Play on Steam

• Team size: 14 | Technical Director

• Third-person shooter made with Unreal 5; quickly passed 100,000 downloads on Steam

• Built a robust and scalable shooting and magic system in C++

• Created Blueprint tools for designers to quickly add new hexes into the game and create hex combos

• Procedurally animated the main character using Unreal 5's Control Rig system

• Stylized the game with an outline shader, a "spirit world" environmental coloration effect, and more

Crustacean Nations

Play on Steam

• Team size: 8 | Lead Programmer, Product Owner

• 3D stylized RTS where all the units are crabs on the beach, built with Unity and released on Steam

• Generated over 60,000 downloads on the Steam store by personally guiding the game’s vision and direction

• Implemented a procedural IK system for a colossal spider crab's eight legs

• Designed a scalable system architecture to support several interlocking gameplay systems

• Performed several graphics and AI optimizations to permit large amounts of units on-screen

Skeletal Animation Framework

See GitHub Repo

• Team size: 2

• Framework for skeletal animation written in C and implemented into Dan Buckstein's Animal3D

• Implemented hierarchical pose structures, FK and IK solvers, and a robust keyframe and clip playback manager

• Designed and implemented a comprehensive blend tree system for layering and combining animation clips

• Created a node-based graph editor artists and animators can use to build out blend trees

• Performed low-level memory optimizations to make sure the program runs efficiently

• Wrote a Blender python tool to export rig data to HTR motion capture file format