GAME Development


MAGNETITE
Magnetite is a sci-fi themed FPS puzzler inspired by the Portal series. Initially created for a college-level Game Design course, Magnetite was my first experience with the Unity engine. The game is still in prototype stages, but I have continued to add to it long after the class has ended.
To learn more about the game, you can visit the site created for it during the course: Magnetite Website



Battle Roy-GBIV
I wanted to create a multiplayer game with simple base mechanics but high replayablity and fun.
Each player controls a ball rolling around on a floating platform. As you roll, the tiles beneath you are painted in your color. If another player then rolls over these tiles, they become THEIR color. The balls also have high elasticity, meaning that bumping your opponent off the platform (making them lose time due to a delayed respawn) is always an option. The goal is to have your color covering the most tiles by the end of the timed round.
The game is playable in its current state, but I have many more ideas and improvements I plan to implement such as support up to four players, adding new platform maps, adding a flipping animation to the tiles changing color, and making the game playable online as opposed to just locally.
Update: Efforts to add contoller compatability are underway and as such movement may feel a bit more slippery than intended. This should hopefully be remedied in the next update.
Software
Document Analyzer
This Python-based tool is used to perform data analysis on all Microsoft Word documents in a given directory.
The program currently has two uses, the first of which is to compile two bar graphs. The first graph depicts how often words of varying lengths appear (i.e. there are 342 two-letter words, 653 three-letter words, etc.) and the other graph shows the frequency with which letters are used. The other use of this program is as a search tool; given a word, the program can search a directory and return the names of all Word files containing this word.
Check out the program's README on Github to see a full list of additions I am working to implement!
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It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia Intro Maker
This Python-based tool is used to create intro gags like those seen in the hit TV show It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia.
For those who are unfamiliar with the show, each episode starts with a "cold open", which is then followed by a title card and the show's theme. This title card is usually a punchline which directly follows the events laid out in the cold open. Examples can be seen here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oW-ULxjelss
Using the tool I have created, one can add a show theme and custom title card to the end of any video they input.
This program is still a work-in-progress; check out the README on Github to see a list of known bugs, as well as future plans.
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