Hi, I’m Nate.

Hypermnesia is a VR horror experience with emphasis on sound design, lighting, and tension buildup. Originally the project was intended to be a full commercial title. As a result, it’s the most comprehensive project in my portfolio.

The project uses commercial assets, so the code is private and available on request.

Highlights

• A complete story with character animations and voice acting.
• Original soundtrack by Visage’s Peter Wicher.
• Custom hand poses for interactable objects.
• Backpack inventory system.
• Event driven systems designed for flexibility.

ChroMagic adds cartridge backup and SD playback to the Chromatic. The desktop app, ChroMagician, can back up games and saves to a PC or the handheld’s SD card, restore saves to cartridges, and install firmware.

I am now rewriting the firmware from the ground up as ChroMagic 2.

The project is independent and open source. The guide covers installation and current compatibility.

Features

• RetroAchievements integrated into the firmware, with an achievement list and unlock notices over gameplay.
• A system switcher for Game Boy, Super Nintendo, NES, Game Boy Advance, Nintendo 64, and PlayStation cores.
• N64 display presets, source window and image fit controls, scanlines, and advanced video, game, and core options.
• An overlay that shows the active system and available SD card space while a game is running.

The project also reads N64 cartridges through the FPGA and backs them up to the SD card through the MCU.

EXIT is a small escape room game with custom features designed to support puzzles, combat, an inventory, item crafting, and more. I built several toolsets and dozens of reusable components alongside it, forming a personal framework. Some of those features are not used in EXIT but are available in the source repository.

EXIT uses Unity’s High Definition Render Pipeline (HDRP).

Highlights

• A broad foundation for first person games.
• Unity Cinemachine and Timeline for cutscenes.
• Designer friendly tools for puzzles, items, crafting combos, and events.
• Inheritance and interfaces for interactable objects and puzzles.
• Gameplay systems decoupled with delegates and events.
• UnityEvents throughout for designer flexibility.

Destroy the Core is a VR shooter. The objective is simple: shoot robots and progress through the level by automatically teleporting to the next waypoint. It was an opportunity to learn the XR Interaction Toolkit and explore VR technology further.

Highlights

• Unity XR Interaction Toolkit.
• Object pooling.
• Gameplay systems decoupled with delegates and events.
• An IDamageable interface designed to support more damage behaviors.
• Custom teleportation system.
• Weapon purchases and upgrades.
• Music courtesy of Scattle.

This custom RPG editor includes a simple runtime UI that displays the configured data. Heroes, weapons, armor, spells, and more can be set up in the editor. At runtime, ScriptableObject data populates the GameManager.

Highlights

• Custom Unity editors built without third party editor packages.
• One database window for heroes, classes, skills, level curves, weapons, armor, and starting party members.
• Automatic ScriptableObject creation and organized storage, with file naming designed for source control.
• Graphics courtesy of FinalBossBlues.

As a Unity toolset rather than a game, the repository is the best way to try it.

I revisited one of my first Unity projects and challenged myself to rebuild it within five days, adding new features and writing code that reflected my current skill set. I finished in less than the allotted time.

Highlights

• Reusable components for varied gameplay features.
• Object pooling.
• Gameplay systems decoupled with delegates and events.
• Custom inspectors and property drawers to help designers configure components.
• Level unlocking rules configured by designers.
• Inheritance based item pickups for quick extension.