This project was a team effort, a team of roughly ten working on a yearlong independent study under Director David Schwartz of IGM. It was designed as a vertical slice - a proof of concept that a teamo of students could write a Unity based MMO in concept if not scale. After joining the team, I implement combat subsystems, allowing the player to learn and use skills to interact and fight with enemies in a variety of ways.

In addition, enemy spawning and loot tables for drops were also implemented, with integration tied into our SQL and MongoDB database systems. This gave me experience with socket architecture as it related to sending packet data.

Ultimately, this project was presented at Imagine RIT 2017 to much interest, and was showcased on the IGM Gallery at the end of the year.

Blog: Wordpress

For this project, I designed, implemented, and maintained the SQLite database utilized as the backend management for all data in the game, including but not limited to: cards, maps, AI presets, decks, rewards, etc.

I designed several internal tools to aid the designer (Rob Bailey) with creating and maintaining the game as testing saw fit. This included a tool for card creation and editing, csv mapping tools for easily uploading encounters, map loading/saving APIs, and more.

I also maintained the data layer of the game, ensuring that all data that needed to be saved and loaded for a save game worked properly, as well as implementing almost every tactic (cards with special abilities and effects) in the game.

Repository located here: Github

Download the free build: Itch.io

A three dimensional heightmap is generated by carving out air from based on a two dimensional improved noise map. Stone, dirt, sand, grass, and water are all built on this step following simple rules revolving around the sea level. Ore is generated as a sinusoidally deformed three dimensional "blob" - limited by the number of blocks in any given vein, which is a number easily changeable in the ore definition. The number of veins in a chunk, and the max height of the generation, are also configurable thusly. Caves are carved out using a turning sinusoid algorithm adapted from minecraft. Caves which fall under a certain height are filled with lava. Trees are generated with a standard shape, only modifying the height of their trunk.

The experience has a primitive day/night cycle adapted from the PlexTweaks mod which I maintain for Minecraft. A sun and moon circle around the player at sufficiently far distances, and the color of the sky and the ambient light is based off their altitude. This makes for a very strong impression of dawn, dusk, and a dark midnight and bright midday. The original algorithm dealt with any number of celestial objects, and their own custom brightness and lightmaps, and was simplified for this project.

Repository located here: Bitbucket

Check it out here: Webcraft

Now in multiplayer: Webcraft 2

This project was started specifically for an application for funding from RIT to visit the Game Developer's Conference 2017. The first factor was of course world generation. Using improved simplex noise, I quickly drafted out a heightmap on which to generate cities on.

Cities have some interesting statistical laws they adhere to - the exponential decay of cities from sea level up, Zipf's Law of city sizes, and the Law of Migration. This I learnt with discussion by Professor Courtney Kurlanska of the RIT Anthropology department. Generating roads between cities was a complex usage of the A* Algorithm using a distance-size matrix to connect near and large cities before small ones.

I then assigned other data such as wind maps, temperature, rainfall probabilities, and other such data. I did not have time to properly modulate the city creation chances by these numbers, nor to apply them to such things as specific flora or fauna spawn rates (wheat in warm lush areas, for example), but leave that as a further expansion for this project.

Repository located here: Bitbucket

After a large amount of research into how language works - what phonemes are, what are morphemes, what denotes a vowel and a consonant, etc., I started designing this. Inspired by an article, this API is fully configurable, or randomizable. One can pick the syllable structures, consonants, vowels, and even the transcription of the IPA phonetic characters. This allows for a plethora of randomized or custom language generation, thus allowing for saving good languages by simply saving the seed.

The random language generator does not actually do translation - as that would require at least one neural network and far more computing power than can feasibly be alotted in a project to such a feature. Instead, one can consider this a crytographical hash of sorts - the sentences given in are split up into words, which are then translated. This translation produces a new set of conjoined syllables which is then mapped to the input word - for consistency if a word is repeated ever again. This provides a "sentence" which looks visually cohesive both internally and with any other "sentence" in this language.

Repository located here: Bitbucket

Increasingly common are games in which the entirety of the world is procedurally generated. However, there is still a large discrepancy between world generators in terms of customizability. The premise of the project was therefore as such: Could a program be created, that generates a replicable and complex world, and allows the exportation of said world to save files for various games?

Over the course of a year, I designed and implemented a world generator that took into account various factors such as temperature, humidity, moisture, and drainage, and combined those with a heightmap in order to generate a massive world with biomes, lakes, rivers, and oceans (as seen above.) The Midpoint Displacement algorithm features heavily.

Repository located here: Bitbucket