Artificial Intelligence (AI) Developer in Rockville, MD, United States

I wrote P4Connect back in 2013. (Back then, I called it UnityP4.) It has since been graciously taken over by Perforce themselves, and you can now download it for free!

A short demonstration of the planetary deformation system I implemented for our game Fireborne. Most of the processing happens on the GPU.

Another project related to my game Fireborne, procedural mountain generation was a very interesting exercise. Good art helps a ton, of course, but coming up with an algorithm that satisfied our requirements (creating mountain walls between areas while not looking repetitive) was really fun!

A demonstration of the planetary fog system I put together for our game, Fireborne. The fog deforms semi-procedurally and uses custom shaders to achieve the end result. The atmosphere also uses its own shader to complement the effect.

Faceted Flight is a VR-first game designed by my friend Matt Scott of The Department of Silly Stuff. I helped him on a few different areas of the game, mainly creating a hard-edged, faceted-looking terrain system that would run on VR devices and prototyping multiplayer.

A demo of the UV Remap shader I wrote for our game Fireborne. The main effect doesn’t use particles or animation sheets (the embers and glow ball do), just a custom pixel shader.

Low Poly Terrain is a simple-to-use asset for generating faceted, hard-edge, low-poly terrains in Unity.

FEATURES
• Import height and color maps from your favorite generation/painting tool.
• Full collision support.
• Achieve a properly faceted look that the default terrain system can't.
• Generate and manage LOD levels dynamically, keeping a low poly count.
• Low CPU and GPU usage, taking advantage of dynamic batching.
• Place trees or other objects procedurally on your terrains.
• Ideal for high-performance environments such as VR.
• Works with PBR or legacy/custom lighting models.
• Full source and shader code included.

Back Button adds support for Back and Next navigation buttons in Unity and adds a full-featured history and favorite system as well.

Fireborne is a god game with RTS elements set in a fantasy universe. Guide the Fireborne and her people, the Yin, in a journey to free their homeworlds from the gruesome lifeforms that have destroyed them.

I was able to create many cool systems for the game, a fully deformable planet, an automata-based water simulation, behavior graph AI for the characters, optimized pathfinding, and lots and lots of shaders for all the FX and unique visuals of the game.

This was a project for a sci-fi adventure game, obviously inspired by Bladerunner. Although the project didn’t end up getting greenlit, it was a fun time working on an adventure-type game with interesting camera systems, scripted scenes, and a nonlinear story.

A donut-shaped pyroclastic effect.

Most of what I did was modify the raycasting equations to work with a different shape than a sphere.

As part of the development of my game Fireborne, I created a fun procedural way to generate the world and populate it.