STEELWALKER

Steelwalker is the story of two friends venturing out from their secluded low-tech village to find a world devastated by high-tech mech warfare. The two friends must cooperate to find a beacon that will ward off remaining mechs from their homes and families.

The game is presented as a multiplayer split-screen experience and features tools unique to each player, exploration, puzzles and combat.

It was developed over the course of about 8 months by a team of 9 Game Development students including myself.

Read more about it on the Project Website!

I served as programming lead, directing and overseeing the programming efforts of the other programming talent on the team. I spent a lot of time setting up systems for other programmers and artists. I'm planning on making a few blog posts explaining some of my work in more detail soon.

Highlights include:

• Steam Networking Integration

• A Pose-To=Pose animation framework

• A level-building plugin called "Dungeoneer"

• Dynamic Splitscreen and a Cinematic Camera Control System

• Tech Art work such as Toon Shading, plants swaying in the wind, spline-based mesh generation for rivers, pipes and bridges

• A Framework for level designers to easily build Interactions between level elements and players

• Gameplay programming such as a dagger that lets you climb walls and cut ropes, batteries that can power level elements, boxes the players can push, etc.

• Music Production