Unity Mirror maze Game
My largest scale game project I’ve made on my own. 3D procedurally generated mirror maze where you have to bonk into walls to escape. I spent a lot of effort trying to find how to get the reflections right and I eventually discovered that ray tracing is perfect for this use case. I also use my original idea of a reflection probe that sticks to the wall you look at as a fallback.
The graphical and computational complexity of this project made it really fun to make since I had never had a good chance to work on such advanced stuff before. This project took over a year to make with multiple classes dedicated to it. Due to the limited number of objects in the scene, I put a lot of effort into a high quality player character since you will see it throughout the game.
Unity simple 2D platformer game
While it's not my greatest game nor the funnest, I am still proud of the first game I made during my first year in GIMM. Through this game I learned how to work with Unity, specifically in 2D. I also learned a lot about art making some of the assets.
The game originated from the adorable goat crab hybrid creature I made for another class and decided to reuse it since I was really proud of it. Since I wanted complex animation and interaction with the world, I had to split the character into separate game objects with their own colliders.
Unreal networked multiplayer
This game was a group project using Unreal Engine to make a networked multiplayer game. We made a game where players are one of two classes, Merchant or Witch, and their goal is to complete a set of puzzles. The Merchant has an NPC companion that will follow them and follow their orders, while the Witch can ride a broom to "fly" around and can interact at a farther distance.
I was in charge of the development side of things, specifically networking, player controllers, puzzle scripts and AI. I also worked on importing our artists' assets, setting up the high quality visuals, shader graphs for texture bombing, and general troubleshooting.
This was my first time working with Unreal Engine and networking, so it was a bit of a challenge, but I learned a lot and I enjoyed working on the project with my team.
Since I didnt have time during this project to learn C++ and the engine, I used Blueprints exclusively. However, now that I have experience with Unreal Engine, I think I would be perfectly capable of learning to make a game in C++ with it.