Projects
Eriast Derby
Data-driven combat and race simulator for a homebrew D&D campaign, built to automate large-scale NPC vehicle behaviour across a multi-stage tournament. Handles modular vehicles, crew-operated subsystems, layered targeting rules, AI decision-making, and custom combat mechanics at a scale that would be wildly impractical to run by hand.
- Automates large-scale NPC behaviour for a rules-heavy vehicular combat system across a full tournament
- Solves an unusually difficult targeting model: vehicles, modular components, crew-operated subsystems, and vehicle-wide effects all coexisting in one combat layer
- Fully data-driven - skills, conditions, vehicles, stages, and AI content are all authored in the Unity editor without touching code
- Custom DM tooling: detailed logging with full modifier breakdowns, live monitoring panels, and a vehicle inspector
- Backed by a large automated test suite enabling confident refactoring across a complex, interconnected codebase
Fox-Fire Heist
Solo-developed first-person environmental puzzle game set on a steampunk airship and inspired by a Chinese folktale. Built from a blank Unity project over two months, with gameplay centered on reusable physics-based interactions, diegetic puzzle design, and near-complete self-produced art and level content.
- Built entirely solo over two months from a blank Unity project, alongside a dissertation and other coursework
- Designed around a small set of reusable interactions rather than isolated puzzle set pieces or separate puzzle UI
- Roughly 95% of the environment art was self-made in Blender, alongside scripting, level design, and lighting
- Received the highest grade in the cohort and was later used by the course organiser as an example for future students
Moody Space Station
Solo-developed atmospheric experience built in Unity, with a custom posterization shader pipeline, 100% self-made assets, and a fully scripted emotional arc. Designed as a technical art piece with visual direction developed in Blender Cycles and translated into a realtime render pipeline from scratch.
- Custom posterization shader built as a realtime render pipeline feature, with a dual-camera setup to selectively exclude UI
- Visual direction derived from Blender Cycles concept renders and translated into Unity's realtime pipeline through research and iteration
- 100% self-made assets - every model, material, and environment piece built in Blender
- Fully scripted atmospheric arc with roughly 20 timed and reactive events
- Topped the class with a grade of 90%, the threshold the department associates with publishable-quality work
Mass-Spring Charge Systems
Master's thesis and published research on charged mass-spring systems for animation. My contribution covered two areas: debugging and optimizing the DDEF charge-interaction algorithm, and building a complete artist-facing pipeline that takes meshes from Blender, through an interactive simulation tool, and back to Blender as fully animated geometry.
- Built the full artist tooling pipeline: Blender export/import scripts, Polyscope interactive GUI, keyframing system, vertex-group charge control, and round-trip back to Blender
- Found and fixed a critical correctness bug in DDEF after two weeks of numerical analysis, making the later optimization work worthwhile
- Reimplemented and optimized DDEF in C++, achieving 10x to 300x speedup over the Python version depending on test conditions
- Co-first author on a published research paper; dissertation awarded 85% and selected as an exceptional dissertation
Selected Smaller Projects
Made with Unity
#27 / 442 overall48-hour team game jam project focused on scope recovery, creative reframing, and rapid delivery. Built as a first-time jam entry and ranked highly for narrative and creativity.
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Flagfall Bishop
Technicians' AwardRobotic chessboard built in an 8-person team. I led the software side: designed and built the control layer that interpreted ambiguous physical board input, coordinated LEDs and move validation, and connected the whole system to the chess engine and robot movement hardware.
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