EXIT is a small escape room game, crammed with a ton of custom programmed features. These features are designed to easily support puzzles, combat, an inventory, item crafting and much more. Designed alongside with this project are several custom toolsets and dozens of reusable flexible components, making it a sort of personal framework. As this framework was designed to be used in future projects of mine, many features exist that aren't used in EXIT, but can be viewed in the code repository.

EXIT uses the High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP).

Highlights:

• A rich set of features to support most first person games.
• Use of Unity Cinemachine and Timeline for cutscenes.
• Designer friendly custom toolsets allow creating puzzles, items, crafting combos and events quickly and easily.
• Inheritance and Interfaces are used for a solid foundation for interactable objects and puzzles.
• Core gameplay system decoupled via Delegates and Events.
• Most components allow the designer to fire off UnityEvents for flexibility.

Destroy the Core is a VR shooter game. The objective is simple: shoot robots and progress through the level by automatically teleporting to the next waypoint! I had a great time learning the XR Interaction Toolkit and exploring more in VR technology.

Highlights:

• A firm understanding of the Unity XR Interaction Toolkit.
• Object pooling system.
• Core gameplay system decoupled via Delegates and Events.
• The IDamageable interface lays out the foundation for many more damageable behaviors than showcased in the demo.
• Custom written teleportation system.
• Purchase new weapons and upgrade existing weapons to do more damage to your robot opposition!
• Music courtesy of Scattle.

This project is a custom RPG editor, with a simple runtime UI that shows the data populating. Heroes, weapons, armors, spells and more can be configured in this designer focused toolset.

The system is based on ScriptableObjects. At runtime, all of the SO data is used to populate the GameManager class.

Highlights:

• A strong understanding of custom Unity Editors; third party packages such as Odin were specifically ignored for this project (although I do have a firm understanding of Odin as well!)
• One database window allows designers to create, and modify: Heroes, Classes, Skills, Level Curves, Weapons, Armors and Starting Party Members.
• ScriptableObjects are created and stored in the proper folder automatically by the editor. File name generation assures friendliness in source control team environments.
• Graphics in this package are provided courtesy of FinalBossBlues.

Note: Because this is a Unity toolset and not really a game project, there isn't a direct download, but the repository can be cloned to try the tools.

This was revisiting one of my very first Unity projects from several years ago. My challenge was to re-create the project within five days, with new features and with code that matches my current skill set. I accomplished the challenge in less than the time I gave myself, and it was quite a reflection on how far I’ve come since I began my Unity journey.

Highlights:

• Re-usable components allow several different gameplay features to be implemented with no additional code.
• Object pooling system.
• Core gameplay system decoupled via Delegates and Events.
• Custom inspectors and property drawers assure the designer isn’t missing important component configuration.
• Level unlocking system allows designers to easily specify what levels unlock upon completing a level.
• Use of inheritance for item pickups allow programmers to efficiently script out quick logic for new pickups.