Portfolio

Overview

Welcome to UCSC—sort of. Markus’s Miasma drops players into a fog-drenched, uncanny version of UC Santa Cruz where familiar landmarks are warped and the silence carries weight. Navigate eerie footpaths and unsettling interiors as you uncover the story of Markus—a man whose past is bleeding into reality through puzzles, fragments, and memory.

My Role & Production

Product Owner & Project Manager for a six-month development cycle. Led an interdisciplinary team of eight using Scrum: sprint planning, backlog management, milestone builds. Directed creative vision, coordinated cross-discipline work (design, programming, art, audio), presented regularly, and maintained documentation.

Originated as a UCSC undergraduate capstone. Progressed from pre-production (vision, scope, prototypes) to production (feature/content) and post-production (polish, QA). Refined via structured playtests with classmates and faculty.

Notes

All characters, locations, and events are fictional. While inspired by the aesthetics of UC Santa Cruz, this work does not depict the real university.

Overview

Red Trees Rail Co is a VR horror train simulator placing you in a restored steam locomotive on a new night route through redwood forest towns. Reports of unsettling phenomena complicate routine operations.

Horror Elements

Expect hallucinations—figures in the trees, impossible interior damage, and other reality-bending events. Rely on the former engineer’s notebook for procedures and survival.

My Role

2D artist, storyboarder, QA tester, generalist. Joined a UCSC capstone team as a sophomore to support a senior team delivering a polished VR experience.

Overview

Bat Bomb is a Unity platformer that rethinks movement by replacing continuous WASD input with a deliberate slingshot mechanic. Players line up shots and commit to each launch to traverse floating platforms with precision.

Team & My Role

Built by a 3-person team for a UCSC Prototype class focused on creative mechanics exploration. I served as Concept Refiner, Coder, and Documenter, shaping the slingshot design, implementing core interactions, and maintaining design/technical docs.

Developer Notes

The prototype explores how platformers feel when committed motion replaces continuous input, encouraging foresight and risk management over constant micro-adjustment.

Overview

Puzzle Path is a puzzle-platformer built in Phaser for a foundational game design class at UCSC. The project emphasizes readable level design, tight controls, and light narrative framing.

Team & My Role

Built by a 4-person team. My contributions focused on map and platform concept design and coding core interactions and level logic in Phaser.