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The Dark Climb is a challenging stealth-game about reaching the Final Gate shining brightly in the distance. To have a chance at traversing the dark path there, players are equipped with a light, which is fueled by their own life-force. While this light will illuminate their path, it will also attract the attention of deadly enemies. Good light management, pattern-recognition, enemy-avoidance and sense of direction are necessary to succeed.

For this project, I occupied the roles of the Product Owner, Coding Lead, Game- and Level-Designer and also developed the game's style and shading in Unity.

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Jiroku is a 2D Jump&Run in which the player has to switch gravity to their needs, in order to progress through the map without touching any of the red blocks. This can come difficult at times, as gravity can only be switched once while off the ground.

The game combines Jump&Run gameplay with the inherent puzzle-aspect of alterable gravity, challenging players to figure out their own paths through each passage. It creates interesting moments of contemplation on how to even approach an upcoming jump and makes players think in different and novel ways about moving around in a 2D space.

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Check out the prototype-game: Dispersion

The baseline for the engine code were the SFML SDK (Simple and Fast Multimedia Library), TGUI (GUI library for SFML) and the RapidXML parser for accessing the Tiled Map Editor’s XML files. Aside from that, the general engine architecture and the following features were implemented manually:

• Object & component structure
• Game-states & state-management
• Game-initialization and graceful shutdown
• Physics (rigid-bodies, collisions, etc.)
• Input-management
• Level-factories for Tiled files
• Sprite-Animations

Contact me, if you are interested in the code, as it is not publicly available.

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In terms of game systems, Niforth (Abyss) currently features expanded survival mechanics, 5 largely modular classes centered around surviving within and exploring the world, an achievement-based skilltree, a weapon and armor system with enhancement mechanics, loads of special and legendary items, custom enemies and raid mechanics.

The world itself features large sets of areas, rich with mood-imagery, non-stationary characters, local plants and creatures, discoverables, mega-dungeons and a whole bunch of maps to offer orientation to players.

If you are interested in the details, contact me and I can offer you a tour through the systems and world.

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The player’s goal in »Left Me Here« is to reach the top of a mountain as fast as possible, in order to catch up to a dear friend, who apparently wants to leave them behind forever.

Developing this game was my very first experience with system architecture and has sparked my first interest for the topic. It also made me appreciate modern engines a lot, since for this game almost everything was developed completely from scratch and without tutorials.

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»Post Omega« is a metroidvania jump&run game that focuses on air movement through the use of a hook-shot. The game was under development using the Rust programming language, the Bevy game library and the Tiled level editor.

On the coding side, I was largely involved with creating a physics-based movement-system that feels natural and intuitive. Aside from that, I was also responsible for the game’s level-design.

In »Train Trauma« the player’s goal is to make a train-ride as miserable and stressful as possible by cleverly using the iconic characters in each train wagon with and against against each other. Through clever placement of said »Icons«, the player can create destructive chain-reactions between them, which should ultimately maximize the stress for all characters in a wagon.

This can be achieved through the individual mechanics of the different Icons, which trigger under certain conditions. The »Heavy Smoker« for example will start smoking, once they are stressed enough, and thereby spread more stress in an area around him.

Beyond the Past is a very simple game on its own. The player has to progress through a set of 24 stages by defeating a singular enemy spaceship per stage. The interesting portion of the project is that the enemy will adjust its difficulty after each stage to match the player's skill, resulting in a perfectly tough challenge along the way.

As the game's dynamic-difficulty system could be set to aim for specific difficulties during every individual stage, different difficulty progressions could be tested. This was used to evaluate changes in the play-experience, when using the hero's journey as a model for the difficulty progression.

The planning and realization of this cyberpunk-themed LARP was set into motion as part of a game-studies course on my university, but was ultimately carried out by a small team of 10 extremely dedicated students. It was hosted in March of 2023 at FH Salzburg.

The LARP area was comprised of multiple connected locations like an underground bar, a weapon-shop and a massive reactor. The world featured 4 gangs with unique motives, mysteries, main and side quests, an economy system, NPCs, a temporary afterworld for holograms and Nerf gun combat. As the lead game-designer i was heavily involved with all of the above game systems.

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During my recent game projects I typically served as the programming lead due to my extensive coding knowledge, but also my high proficiency at designing extendable classes and tools for my co-developers. This led me to the creation of many high-level classes for other developers to build upon, including the following:

• An abstract state-machine based around C# types
• A wrapper class that turns any Unity component into a singleton
• A simple movement path script for determining enemy destinations

»Stormborn Echoes« is a game about making tough long-term decisions, as in-game time, the player character's robotic body, and their memories are the main resources used for survival mechanics. The (currently) Survival-Deckbuilding-Roguelike serves as a collection of almost standalone, individually interesting design and development challenges, which drive me to grow and refine my skills as a game-designer, game-developer, storyteller and artist.

The game is currently in its concept phase, where I work on the target player-experience, vibe, genre and mechanics. Alongside that, I am also working on a short survival- and or combat-demo, a pixel-art particle-system, and the automatic alignment of in-game events (e.g. raindrops) with key music elements.