Shipped Titles
What a cool opportunity to help shape the future of the metaverse! Horizon Worlds is a social VR app where you can build worlds or visit worlds made by others. My claim to fame is that I added jumping to the game, but most of my work has been focused on expanding the capabilities of the tools our players use to build their worlds. The building is actually done while in VR, so it's really neat to make tweaks to the world around you and see them take effect immediately.
Rustbucket Rumble is my first professionally developed game. It was released on Steam with over 100K players in the first month. Chose one of six playable robots and join a side-scrolling 3 vs 3 battle. Damage your opponents until they're stunned, then carry them back to your base to convert them to scrap metal. Collect enough scrap to construct a giant robot and destroy the enemy base! It's a bit like capture the flag except sometimes you're a flag.
Side Projects
I teamed up with artist Kevin Ingrassia to flesh out a simple mechanic that created a lot of mental conflict for the player. Take control of Rosco, a raccoon who must navigate through an asteroid field while while gunning down the alien owls pursuing him. Use the arrow keys to rotate Rosco, altering his trajectory and aiming his shots simultaneously. Focus too much on the asteroids and an alien will catch up to you, but ignore the asteroids and you're likely to smash into one. We double down on this internal tension by occasionally providing the player with two power-ups and forcing them to pick one.
Originally created as a homework assignment for my Computer Game Design course in college, Feather Flurry was simply too much fun to stop development after handing it in. You play as Nick, an archer defending himself from a flock of seagulls that want him off their island. Shoot arrows in five directions to kill the blasted birds or crouch to avoid them. Get hit and you'll start sliding towards the edge of the island. Regain your footing by crouching or you'll plummet into the ocean and lose a life.