Redemption is a complete campaign style level I created using the Sandbox2 editor packaged with Crysis. For the environment, I painted my own height map for the terrain of my island, then carefully placed all vegetation and environmental objects to create a realistic feeling island while still guiding the player along a strait forward path towards the mission objectives.

For the mission, I laid out four terminals that the user must access throughout the island. Each terminal is guarded with increasing difficulty from foot soldiers, to soldiers on mounted defensive turrets, to elite stealthed soldiers, to an entire fortress at the end.

For the dramatic finish, after accessing the final terminal, a military helicopter piloted by the computer lands and tells the player to “get in the gunner seat.” The player must then use the mounted machine gun to fend off multiple enemies with anti-aircraft weapons firing throughout the island as they escape to the victory of the level.

Below you can watch a video that contains a full walk through of the level I created using the Sandbox2 editor for Crysis. In addition, the self narration of the video explains my thoughts and the considerations I made along the way, to create the fun and challenging, completely playable, first level: “Redemption.”

I designed and programmed a classic arcade style skeeball game using 3DVIA Studio. In addition to designing and programming, I was responsible for creating the 3D art as well. I was responsible for the design, 3D art, and programming of the game. The real trick to programming this game was translating the player’s mouse input into physics manipulation of the ball in order to make the player feel like they have control of the ball, but still make it challenging.

This game was created in only two weeks, shortly after the 3DVIA Studio game engine launched. Along with creating the game, I did a series of live webinars co-hosted with my colleague Juan Del Rio detailing my development process in creating the game, a sample of which can be found below.

For a list of all the webinar videos and more information, check out this article.

Click the link below to launch the skeeball game directly in your browser.

Note: You will need to install the 3DVIA Player plugin to run the game, and the player is currently not supported on Mac or mobile devices.

I created a lot of “Getting Started” tutorial content to shorten the learning curve on 3DVIA’s 3D game development engine: Studio.

This content consists of over twenty step by step tutorial videos that I created from the ground up, by myself, including: script writing, screen recording, narrating, editing, and publishing.

I also created over fifty documented, engine ready assets that demonstrated key engine features from lighting, to physics, to path finding and more.

In addition, I created several written documents and online articles ranging from step by step tutorials tailored to a complete novice of the engine, to detailed guides on how to master more complex concepts and best practices.

Below you can find a segment of video taken from the middle of one of my multiple part series on how to script in the 3DVIA Studio game engine.

You can find a full listing of the videos here. I created all of the videos on the page except for the “Studio Minutes” section.

I created over fifty, drag and drop, engine ready assets demonstrating key principles of 3DVIA Studio. Below you can find a list of links that represents a cross section of the content I created:

• Character with user keyboard controls and collision detection
• Character that follows a static curve path
• Door that opens/closes on user mouse click
• Basic physical shapes and properties
• Wide variety of code snippets

The bulk of the content is in the last link, “code snippets” where I demonstrated how to use 3DVIA Studio’s native scripting language (derived from C++) to accomplish common programming needs. Below you can find a code snippet taken directly from the mouse manager example:

I have written many documents and articles detailing how to use the 3DVIA Studio game engine, from step by step beginner tutorials for new users, to more advanced articles dealing with complex concepts for the veteran users.

Below you can find a series of PDF documents I created to get new users started. These documents were created to help college students learn 3DVIA Studio, so the students could participate in a 3DVIA Studio challenge 3DVIA that took place across several college campuses:

• Introduction to 3DVIA Studio
• Introduction to Schematic Scripting (Visual, Building Block, Graph Based)
• Introduction to VSL Scripting (Line Based Code, C++ Derivative)

Here you can find some online articles I published for veteran 3DVIA Studio users to master more advanced concepts and techniques:

• Managing Part Relations / Hierarchies from Solidworks to 3DVIA Studio
• Introduction to Component Casting Between Types

This is a game I designed and coded to get familiar with the 3DVIA Studio game engine. It never reached the polish stage with final geometry, textures, and particles but all of the interface and game mechanics are fully coded. See below for a vertical slice of the game play in action.

A lot of time went into not only the obvious core mechanics such as enemy pathing, tower’s tracking enemies, damage, health, shield, and area of effect calculations but also into an easy to use and understand interface.

Below you will find the bulk of the code I wrote to make the towers track, fire, and deal damage to enemies. Some towers required some special functions to handle things like projectiles versus instant damage, and arrays to broadcast the “take damage” event to multiple enemies within range instead of just one, but the principles remain the same.

Main Execute Task