Still a work in progress!
A very rough prototype to test the idea of making a game based on a short film by the same name. The idea was to build a dark horror experience with stealth and tower defense elements.

Still in the very early stages, but the lighting isn't looking too bad, so far, and both allies and enemies follow a reasonably robust prioritized task-based planning scheme which allows them to adapt on the fly to changes in the environment or their situation. The map is generated procedurally.

After seeing this presentation from Jane Ng about her work on Firewatch, I fell in love with their backgrounds and tried to build a similar sky and fog shader. Their blog entry on the topic helped me get started by defining the parameters they use for their system, but it was a little light on implementation details.

I started by just generating simple gradients for the sky, set from user-defined colors. From there I projected the sun as a circle onto the sky from a position on the unit circle (to allow the user to set the time of day) and added some exponential falloff from the sun's base color to the sky near the sun's position. The fog itself is a simple exponential function, with the density of the fog increasing with distance from the camera and with decreasing height. Scattering effects from sunlight into the fog are handled with a similar exponential decay function to the halo around the sun in the sky.

I helped build a small fluid visualization application in OpenGL over the summer. Our main goal was to produce something specifically for fluids, with the hope of making something more intuitive than ParaView for at least a limited set of scenarios (ParaView is amazing, but very complex).

A short game made with a friend in one week for the Public Domain Jam. You take on the role of Cyrano de Bergerac just after he joins the military, and before he has gained the great amount of respect and panache that he is shown to have in the play.

A little hacky but working. The sky is actually just a hollow textured sphere, which unfortunately required me to bump the iteration count on the march up to avoid getting a seam on one side (should probably have just used a cubemap).

TODO: Caustics for the shadows, and reworking the hacks into something more robust (e.g. in the current implementation transparent objects will occlude other transparent objects).

NOTE: It will render at the size of your browser window! If you have performance issues, try resizing your browser.

Another game jam collaboration.

You are an owl. With an airship. Powered by ferret slave labor. Low on fuel, you must raid a small island for fresh workers before your ship loses all power and falls from the sky. Ferrets are quick and paranoid, though, so you must use stealth and traps to capture...

You only live as long as the last person who remembers you...

A short game made over a few days for a game jam. It features a persistent world, procedural dungeon generation, and multiple playable characters with their own weapons. The game focuses on the experience of ceasing to exist after d...

A simple animated raymarching exercise. Supports procedural and bitmap textures, both of which go through the same lighting process, as well as soft shadows and ambient occlusion.

A small simulation which begins from a "seed" set of triangles, growing new ones from each available vertex while taking care than any newly-added triangles do not overlap any existing triangles.

A Tetris-like game in which some pieces release water into the play area when they are cleared. As the water level rises, wooden blocks will float, separating them from metal and water blocks. This creates a two-tiered play area in which one must plan rows both at the surface and at the bottom of the water. The water level itself is managed by the player by submerging fireballs, which causes the water to evaporate.

More or less "Hello World" for HTML5 and WebGL. On the left-hand side of the page you can see the color gradient used to render the fractal, and by clicking on the labels along the gradient you can configure it to render in any colors you like. (it will also randomly regenerate the gradient if the page is reloaded, but this doesn't usually produce pleasant color combinations)

2D layered sprite engine for a never-finished action RPG. The engine was written in Python with the help of PyGame, and the map editor/animation viewer was written in C#.