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About Me

Hi there! I'm David. I am a student currently studying at the University of Southern California, majoring in Computer Science with a concentration in games.

I was born and raised in Shanghai China, but I am spending my time as a college student here in LA. I love music, movies, skiing, and especially gaming! I also a bit of a drummer (I can't really say that I am an expert lol).

My work is focused in gameplay engineering and design. I am experienced with working in Unreal Engine, Unity and UEFN. I have also practiced building my own game engines, working in proprietary engines (PrimeEngine), and creating a miniature graphics library.

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Here are my

Projects

Oasis Blitz

Oasis Blitz - A unique drill-type platformer implemented with Unity. I am a gameplay engineer on the team. The game is released on Itch.io and coming to Steam.

DirectX Game Engine

A DirectX11 game engine made using C++, HLSL, some multi-threading, and a JSON asset pipeline.

PrimeEngine Development

A series of personal projects done on a lightweight C++ engine with a Maya asset pipeline workflow provided by Professor Artem Kovalovs. These projects include view frustum culling, gameplay programming, and physics programming.

JARHEAD - UE5

A WIP UE5 project from me that tries to recreate a tactical third person shooter experience from a helmet-cam perspective. I have implemented procedural animation, a custom post-processing material for camera effects, and more.

UI/UX Design Blindsight

Designed a UI Kit for the AGP project Blindsight: War of the Wardens. Used Adobe Suite with Illustrator and Figma to design UX flow and UI icons for the game. The game is released on Steam.

Simply Rotate

A fun little physics-based puzzle game where you rotate the entire level to solve problems. I have worked on the UI, physics, retro post-processing effects, and more. A game made with Unity and released on Steam and Itch.io.

An Average Day

An interesting take on Sokoban style puzzle game. This is a class project from the Intermediate Game Development course from USC.

Getaway

A 3D mobile game made in Unity where you swipe the screen to evade cops. Features include roguelike enemy spawns, UI with Tweens, a custom pixel shader, AI navigation, and more. Released on Android through Itch.io.

Untitled Platforming Game

Submission to GMTK 2023 Game Jam: Roles Reversed. It offers an interesting reverse on platforming.

Game Prototypes

Several game prototypes made with different constraints and limited scopes. These prototypes are made with Unity and C#.

Here are my

Class Projects

UE5 Multiplayer FPS

A class project made using UE5 C++ and blueprint programming. I created a multiplayer FPS template with functional replication, UMG UI / Widgets, Animations, and more on both Listen Server and Dedicated Server.

C++ SDL Projects

A series of game projects made using the SDL library and C++. Here, I practiced making games from scratch using C++ and Actor / Component based structure.

Tencent Games Summer Open Course Projects

Projects made from learning and making mechanics in Unreal Engine 4 during the Tencent Games summer session.

This is my game making

Character Profile / Skills

Programming

C++

Java

HTML

Python

CSS

JavaScript

Game Engine

Unity

Unreal Engine

UEFN

Tools

Visual Studio

Rider

Git

Perforce

Illustrator

Photoshop

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