The Last of Us Part 1 is a remake of the critically acclaimed 2013 game The Last of Us. It features enhanced combat and exploration, expanded accessibility options, and a cutsomizable roguelike mode.

• Took ownership of the custom mode of the roguelike game mode, No Return.
• Created spreadsheets to track issues from various combinations of game mode customization.
• Found ad hoc bugs and issues from all parts of the game.

Raincoat is an atmospheric first person shooter about tracking down objectives in a city afflicted with perpetual rain. As the player, you explore tunnels, mountains, and skylines to power up a long dormant space elevator and escape the planet. I chose to use Unreal Engine 5 for this project to create a moody atmoshpere using realistic light reflection and rain. This combined with punchy FPS combat creates a push and pull of intensity between combat and exploration.

• Designed and implemented core game loop from concept to production.
• Quickly created and iterated various gameplay mechanics to fine tune fun moment to moment gameplay.
• Created mood boards and researched city architecture to create the aesthetic and layout of the world.

Gatchapop is a first person arcade shooter where the player must shoot bubbles at gatchapon toys and push them into scoring zones to score points. This game was created in three days with a small team for Global Game Jam 2025.

• Worked with a small team to create concept fitting the game jam's theme "Bubble."
• Designed bubble gun interactions that created player expression through movement and skill shots.
• Polsihed gameplay and fixed bugs after the completion of the game jam.

Soul Racer is a fast paced third person platformer that incorporates racing mechanics to create smooth and snappy player movement. This was my first project after leaving Naughty Dog, and I wanted to use what I had learned as the point of contact for player traversal to create a great feeling character controller.

• Designed and implemented a complex character controller that shfits between racing and platforming states.
• Built platforming challenges with increasing difficulty to teach the player core movement techniques.

I'm a game designer focusing on efficient game systems, crunchy combat puzzles, and expressive player traversal. I started in the quality assurance department at Naughty Dog, and was quickly trusted with design tasks on their now cancelled game, The Last of Us Online.

Since then, I have been a resident at a local indie game art collective called Glitch City LA. There I've been working on solo and team projects while honing my skills as a developer in Unity, Unreal, and Javascript.