Project Experience

• • Responsible for all core game design elements (mechanics, features, etc).
• • Worked iteratively with programmers, artists and the community to test and iterate new gameplay mechanics.
• • Enhanced original gameplay mechanics of Starbound with expansive new features to bring players further agency in gameplay.
• • Planned and implemented a complex Research system to drive progression through gameplay choices and exploration.
• • Created and implemented hundreds of Levels and Microdungeons using Tiled.
• • Added new species and custom racial ability and hunger system with support for third-party races.
• • UX/UI design for updated menus, new UI elements and added QoL assets.
• • Rebalanced combat and expanded it with new mechanics and systems (Parry, Ammo, Masteries)
• • Added hundreds of new weapons and tested and iterated on their balance for Player verses Environment combat.
• • Added a new quest hub with hundreds of quests, and tied it to core game loops.
• • Added over 70+ new biomes to the game.
• • Created hundreds of new assets including animated sprite sheets, sprites, parallax images, tiles and more.
• • Wrote hundreds of pages of new lore and narration, including NPC speech and storyline beats.
• • Planned and implemented puzzle-based gameplay features (light-based puzzles, liquid puzzles, platforming, etc)
• • Created pixelart for thousands of assets.

Design for Frackin Universe

My most ambitious gaming related personal project, Frackin' Universe started as a mod for Starbound with a single new plant. It soon grew to become a whole new way to play the game and contains tens of thousands of new items and miscellaneous content.

There are far too many features to list, and after 8 years of development it is by far the largest mod for the game and potentially the largest anywhere. With over 500,000 players, it has a little something for everyone. It's been reviewed in established gaming sites such as Kotaku, Twinfinite, Rock, Paper, Shotgun, heaps of videos on YouTube and and the games' developers.

Documentation

Level Designs