Role/Responsibilities:
Game Designer, AI Systems Developer, Programmer, UI (Solo Project)

Tools Used:
Unreal Engine 5, C++, Behavior Trees, Perception System, Subsystems

Description:
A third-person survival shooter emphasizing emotional tension, choice-driven outcomes, and adaptive NPC behavior. The project integrates a dynamic AI ecosystem where both allies and enemies react intelligently to player actions, supporting immersive storytelling and balanced challenge.

Research Summary:
Whispers of the Dead’s adaptive AI design draws from Goal-Oriented Action Planning (GOAP) and dynamic Behavior Tree methodologies, similar to the combat AI in F.E.A.R. (Orkin, 2006). It also applies affective player-modeling principles from Yannakakis and Togelius (2018), supporting emotionally reactive companions that respond to player behavior and environmental tension.

Backyard Bakery

Role/Responsibilities:
UI Designer, AI Systems Programmer (Team Project)

Tools Used:
Unreal Engine 5, Blueprints

Description:
A turn-based cooking puzzle where players collect ingredients on a grid before insects consume them. The design emphasizes readability, timing, and user flow through accessible UI and clear player feedback loops.

Research Summary:

Backyard Bakery (Dream Team, 2025) draws on design research around player readability and cognitive load in strategy-based UI systems. The project applies principles from Federoff’s heuristic evaluation of game usability (Federoff, 2002) and Nielsen’s usability heuristics (Nielsen, 1995) to ensure accessible interface design and clear moment-to-moment player feedback within Backyard Bakery’s turn-based structure (Dream Team, 2025). These usability-driven methods supported iterative improvements to timing, clarity, and decision readability, resulting in a more intuitive, responsive, and engaging puzzle-strategy experience in Backyard Bakery (Dream Team, 2025).

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