Alien Invasion is a top-down, rogue-lite shooter where the player must escape the city while fighting waves of enemies. Built with the Phaser framework for JavaScript, Alien Invasion offers a fast paced shoot-em-up experience playable directly in-browser and is available to play below!

     Developed as a team of five at UCSC, we were tasked with creating a game whose theme relates to current events. With the presidential election being the forefront of current events at the time, Alien Invasion is a satirical illustration of how many citizens perceived Donald Trump's approach to external affairs policies.

An endless runner game created as a solo project over the span of a week to familiarize myself with the Phaser framework for JavaScript. The level is procedurally generated from predefined segments and checks to ensure that every pattern is possible to overcome. Try to stay alive as long as possible by inverting gravity to avoid running/falling off the screen. The game is fully playable in-browser and is available to try below! *Artwork and sounds taken from opengameart.org

Courtesy of Blizzard Entertainment, we utilized Starcraft II's open API to develop our very own Starcraft II bot. Using this API, we implemented our AI by employing a behavioral tree approach where our bot would prioritize tasks based upon what it knows about the game state at any given time. As Starcraft II is a game of imperfect information due to its "fog of war" mechanic for hiding enemy units out of the range of view, we taught our AI to seek out information in real-time to decide wether or not its better to attack, expand, defend, etc.

     We set out with the goal of having our AI beat Blizzard's easy bot and focused specifically on having our bot play as the Terran race to do so. In the end, our AI is able to confidently and consistently beat Blizzard's official bots set to medium difficulty. Our AI works on any map and against any opposing race with the only restriction being our bot must play the Terran race. Check it out in action below!

Recedence is a simple combat-driven platformer built in Gamemaker Studio by a team of two as a means to practice game development in a team environment. While the game itself isn't anything impressive in its own light, the game served as a core foundation for learning git file management and splitting tasks between people.

Developed with the help of two friends in high school as my first "complete" video game, Virus Assault is a top-down tower defense game where you play as an IT worker named "Bob" who must protect his system from the infiltrating viruses. Created for the 2015 Future Business Leaders of America Leadership Conference's state competition for the event "Computer Game & Simulation, our team showcased our game live in front of a panel of judges. Here, we achieved first place in the state of California over all the other competing schools. This qualified us to present at the National Leadership Conference in Chicago where only the top three teams from each state could advance. Out of the 75 teams who qualified and competed nationally, we placed fifth in the nation.

Being a tinkerer at heart, I strive to understand as much as possible about the projects I create. To me, a finished product is nothing if I don't understand how I got there in the first place. Because of this notion, I made it my mission to learn web development so that I could call my personal website my own and not some cookie cutter template that I plugged my information into.

     I created this website from scratch using HTML5 and CSS with Bootstrap as a framework to streamline mobile support. Finally, JavaScript and jQuery Were utilized for my scripting needs to handle dynamic elements on the page.