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Built within 72 hours, this is the game our group (consisted of Allen Weng, Devon Chan, and me) created from scratch for the Ludum Dare 55 Game Jam under the theme "Summoning". This game is partially inspired by puzzle games like "Return of the Obra Dinn", requiring the player to explore their room and bring objects back to life by piecing together dialogues from unknown objects. This is our first attempt at making a 3D game on Unity, and it has required us to learn a lot of stuff in terms of 3D movement, actions, and special effects. On top of that, building an unlockable system has been a fun challenge that, although requires quite a lot of bug fixing, has proved to be a really cool mechanic in showing both the player's progress and the puzzles themselves. We used a linked-list-esque structure at first to link each object with the next associated unlockable object, but due to the number of objects we have designed to be on the scene and the number of unlockables unlocked per time (our game will unlock new objects after three unlocked objects have been correctly matched to their respective lines), we changed the mechanic such that it's more randomized and prevents the players from softlockinng themselves during gameplay.

Built within 72 hours, this is the game our group (consisted of Allen Weng, Devon Chan, Nico Xi, and me) created from scratch for the Global Game Jam 2024 under the theme "Make Me Laugh". It is a humorous take on the Japanese otaku culture and also the gameplay style in an infinite runner. The player controls Neko, the cat that broke a figurine of his otaku owner. We managed to balance the game and encourage resource management through a hunger meter, where the player becomes more hungry when he/she moves, uses a skill, or bumps into obstacles, and more full when they eat. On top of that, the player's base speed will be higher the more hungry he/she is and slower when more full. This forces the player to actively manage how much food they should eat instead of mindlessly consuming all the food.\

Built within 72 hours, this is the game our group (consisted of Allen Weng, Devon Chan, and me) created from scratch for the Ludum Dare 54 Game Jam under the theme "Limited Space". In this game, the player controls a softbody bacteria that is trying to survive from an evil scientist who is constantly feeding it gluttonous food. The player's goal is to avoid as much gluttonous food as possible to avoid growing too big and dying. The player can push the bacteria around and dash, both done with the mouse. The player can also grow smaller by eating the floating probiotics to offset the damage done by the food.

Built within 48 hours, this is the game our group (consisted of Allen Weng, Devon Chan, Nico Xi, and me) created from scratch for the GMTK Gam Jam 2023 under the theme "Roles Reversed". We built this game with the concept of reversing the gameplay of a roguelike from both our movement and our design. We made the bold decision to swap the roles of a character and its weapon, such that the weapon uses the character to attack and move on its own. The player can't move as well so the only way to protect itself is to attack and move different movable objects to block the incoming enemies.

An NFC-based online menu services that allows users to make orders at a restaurant with a single tap on any NFC tags placed on the table. We have complete support of major payment methods, ranging from credit cards to Apple Pay and PayPal, with the help of Stripe. We store all our restaurant and order informations on FirebaseFirestore. Data is transferred through a customly built socket.io connection to enable real-time and low latency communication between our database and the client sessions.

It is still under development and will be published as soon as possible!

A real-time text and speech translator that uses DeepL API for language transaltion and AssemblyAI API for speech-to-text transcription. The app also uses MongoDB to store all the previous translations for future references and retrieval. This is my second iOS app built with Swift UIKit and has a similar minimalistic design to my other iOS projects. The app is divided into 3 different tabs based on their functionalities, one for text-to-text translation, one for speech-to-text transcription and translation, and the last for storing and managing previous translations.

It is still under development and will be published as soon as possible!

The final group project developed by Yifei Zhou, Leqi Tian, Robin Li, and me for CS 3110 (Data Structures and Functional Programming). We decided to recreate a version of Pac-Man where all the ghosts are blindfolded and wandering around the maze while we control the Pac-Man to eat all the dots. To balance out the difficulty, we introduced randomness to our game and more ghosts to keep the player engaged. The final result is presented on the Terminal as a CLI and was accomplished using OCaml and ANSITerminal. I was responsible for taking in a JSON file and extract the map out of it and also programming the movements of our characters.

It is now live and available here!

Inspired by the web version of Lumiere that I developed with my friend Haoxuan half a year ago, this is an extended version of the same app with more functionalities and an improved front-end design made entirely on my own. This is an iOS app built with Swift UIKit that allows users to add, edit, and delete films they've watched or want to watch to the app's lists. The app features an authentication system using FirebaseAuth, a data management system with FirebaseFirestore, and a storage for user-uploaded images in FirebaseStorage. Two lists are implemented in the app, one storing the title, rating, and date of the movie that they've watched, while the other keeping score of the title of any unwatched films.

It is now live and available here!

A website designed and built by Haoxuan and me as the final project for INFO 1998 (Trends in Web Development), in which we used ReactJS to build the website based on the NextJS framework, ChakraUI for CSS styling, as well as FirebaseAuth and FirebaseFirestore as our backend for authentication and data storage. This is a website that allows the user to add movies that they've watched and give a personal rating and comment on the movie.

A 3D remake of the classic Pac-Man game with inspiration from Dark Deception. This game features the classic Pac-Man on his quest trying to eat as many gems as possible without being caught by the four ghosts that are controlled by Unity NavMesh Agents with the same algorithm as that of the classical Pac-Man using the Unity 3D's built-in NavMesh Agents. This game also improves on the original approach of input control from only using the arrow keys to control the movement of Pac-Man to being able to control the movement of Pac-Man with both arrow keys and mouse.

My first complete Unity project inspired by a similar game I have seen earlier in the year. Completed all by myself with the occasional help to look up the implementation of certain UI or functionalities and reference to the Udemy Unity course by GameDev.tv. This is a 3D game involving a cube that is constantly accelerating across a game board to reach a destination. The difficulty of the game increases as the velocity of the cube increases, making it harder to control. There will be different types of obstacles on the way: spinning obstacles, arbitrarily falling obstacles, and stationary obstacles. This is a fun and minimalist game where you get to try your best to go to the finish line at 4,900m.

It is now live and available here!