JEFFREYCHUI

Deployed a Node App and a Python Flask App for developers via AWS Beanstalk with GitHub Actions

Deployed a Kubernetes Cluster with 3 apps

Save your mushroom family from the humans in Shroommates, a light-hearted 3D platforming adventure! Solve puzzles through clever use of your environment and get everyone back home safely. You're a little shroom in a big world - squish down for a powerful jump, parachute away with your mushroom cap, and climb vines to get to vantage points around the house. Beware of the human chef bent on putting delicious shrooms on his pizza, and a deadly Shroomba that attacks fungi on sight! Shroommates is full of funny interactions to discover, catchy music, and a fully voiced cast of colorful characters to meet! Click this to watch the game trailer. Click this to download and play.

• Implemented game behaviors as needed in various areas, such as:
  • Camera pans and cutscenes to better guide the player to an objective which were accomplished using trigger box interactions.
  • Credits – created an animated sequence for the credits in UE4 which slides the image’s y position from 0 to 3402 in twenty-one seconds.
  • Created a day night cycle which lasted five and a half minutes for one cycle. Also used this to help make the trailer for the first four seconds. Last but not least, added in clouds, stars, and a sun – which were all tweakable values to either enhance or diminish the effects of certain elements in the cycle.
  • Environmental lighting, level design(lamps and mirrors with crisp reflection), and shadows/reflections in the world. Also, a drop shadow on the character mushroom to aid the player in platforming. Added LMIV to efficiently handle build time of light.
  • Game objects: ability to turn on/off lights, bounce on beds or other spongy objects, and open doors which checked if the player has the key or not which then rotated the door ninety degrees.
  • Menus - included correct textures and sounds for the buttons that were either being unselected, hovered, or selected. Implemented resolution settings and support for both keyboard, mouse, and controller. Also included tutorial page, back to title, and continue buttons. Lastly, included switching images based on the event of how you have died (Roomba attacked you or timer ran out).
  • Shop system - controller support for correct textures and a check of twenty coins meant player can buy CD.

A board game based off of the recent popular trend of battle royale games and a systems design exercise. You've seen the thousands of PUBG and Fortnite knock-offs for PC and smartphones, now check out the board game! Manage a team of three units as you try to win that chicken dinner! Each unit has up to ten actions points to use to move around the map, open chests for loot, and shoot other players. Last team standing wins! View the presentation here.

• Collaborated on game mechanics and balance.
• Balanced reaction point system, which helps units getting shot at by granting them immediately spendable action points to prevent immediate death.
• Balanced damage, range, accuracy (determined with die roll), and usage cost for 4 different weapons.
• Created interactive game core loop using Machinations. Download the XML here, and open it within Machinations.
• Transferred ideas, rules, and mechanics to visually clean documents for presentation.

A tabletop game with a satirical look at international politics meant to represent our view of the utter insanity, childish incomprehensibility, and extensive cheating in the world. It is a four-player game where each player takes on the role of a country's leader and become the world's superpower through use of war, famine, disease, and politicians. Cheating is explicitly allowed and encouraged.

• Collaborated on game design and balance.

Flint is a top-down puzzle game where the player must traverse through an underground water supply, fixing pipes and cleaning up waste before all the clean water is lost. The game’s mechanics focuses primarily on fixing pipes, being able to move through free space, getting to the end of the stage, and the concept of time pressure. Last level is unbeatable because the Flint Michigan water crisis is not as easy to fix. Click this to play. Click this to view the repo.

• Collaborated on game design and balance.
• Level Designer.
• Implementing game behaviors as needed in various areas, such as state management, sound design, transitions from level to level, and movement of player.

What game/genre did you choose? I chose the game Overwatch. Why did you choose it? I chose it because I wanted to experiment with creating robot sounds and I also really enjoyed the Overwatch short itself. How did you approach the sound design? I approached the sound design by making all the nature sounds first. Afterwards, I added in robot sounds and tuned everything up. What technology did you use? I used Reaper for the editing, Zoom H1 for the recording. Also, ReaEQ, ReaComp, ReaVocode - which were all under VST effects. Which sounds were the most challenging? The robot sounds were the most challenging because I had to use tone generators and sound effects from the f(x) section. Click this to watch video. Make sure to put on headphones.

As this project was an extension of the 170 series (Shroommates the game, where the three of us had planned to implement this audio work), I decided it was better placed in a demo world where the other conflicting sounds of the world don’t overwhelm and drown out the sounds. All the sounds were implemented in Pure Data, imported into heavy, then configured with Wwise into Unreal Engine 4.

• Jump sounds based on jump height (charge jump in Shroommates, emulated with bounce pad): Straight ahead of the player, the grey rectangular platform
• Boombox that holds out music is directly to the left and down the hill - changes tempo during the night
• Lights that give off electric sounds are scattered across the floating islands - run into them to interact, becomes more sporadic and harsh before they break and disappear
• Cricket noises come out at night, retreat by day
• Demo available on request

Small project that served as an introduction to game programming. Requirements included game states and switching, a texture atlas or sprite sheets for in-game images, proper asset loading, player movement(based on you game design), animation, proper collision management, random generation of terrain, pickups, etc, looping background music, sound effects (based on your game design), some form of GUI, proper commenting, and a logical organized file structure. Click this to view the repo.

Subscription Splitter is a web application that aims to serve as a platform so anyone can find people to split the cost of a variety of services such as Netflix, Chegg, HBO, or Hulu. Users must create an account before they are able to make a post. The app allows users to leave comments to let people contact each other. Check out the website here.

• What we accomplished:
  • Used MongoDB to set up models for Schemas and associated the data using either embedded or referenced methods for one to one relationship, one to many, or many to many relationships. An example would be the comment Schema which defined the model of a comment to have the author and description of the comment. Later, we had to associate comments by exporting it as a model to the group Schema and displaying it on the show route. Finally, after authentication was done, comments were then associated with users when the user signed up and then signed in to add comments
  • Used environment variables so that production and development databases are unique. Database served on mlab and site hosted on Heroku became the production data, while locally we had a separate MongoDB database for testing purposes on AWS Cloud9
  • Used RESTful Routes and mapped HTTP routes and CRUD using Express.js
  • Used Node.js and packages such as body-parser, connect-flash, ejs, express, method-override, mongoose, and passport
  • Used Bootstrap styling methods and its grid system
  • For our project management method, we followed the SCRUM methodology and had weekly standups and burndown charts. Familiarized ourselves with Trello and organized our Sprints there

Consider you have an embedded application to be deployed on a set of card readers for a classroom seats management and attendance system. An institute deploys this application on a set of 8 classrooms, with each classroom having 256 available seats. Seats are pre-assigned to students, where by the same seat will be occupied by the same student in all classrooms; i.e. no two students can have the same seat number ever. The seat number of the student will be hardwired on his card. Each student will stamp upon entering and upon leaving a specific class. A student cannot exist in two classes at any point in time. The whole idea is to be able to know how many students are there in any particular class, inquire about a specific student location in any class at any point of time, and to be able also to inquire on the availability of a specific student at any point in time. The maximum number of students that can go to any class is 256, and students are numbered from 0 to 255. Check out the repo here.

In this programming assignment, you’ll create a program that generativity and interactively reinterprets an image of your own selection. Practice goals: Start a local web server. Edit and debug JavaScript in the Chrome browser’s development tools. Use P5js to read from and draw on images. Start thinking about generativity. Click this to view the repo.

In this programming assignment, you’ll create a pseudo-infinite, pseudo-random terrain design exploiting the idea of hash trees. Every minute detail of your world should be uniquely determined by a user-provided worldgen key. Practice goals: Use noise functions to create smooth variations. Use hash trees to make repeatable random choices. Derive both continuous and discrete choices from the discrete state of the hash. Click this to view the repo.

• Implemented functionalities such as:
  • Loading images
  • One-time setup
  • Variation of tiles using a switch case in myDrawTile(i,j,variation) and "animated" assets
  • Vertical offset of tile (i,j) using millis() to further emphasize height
  • Tile Variation
  • Setting the seed value for noise(). By default, noise() produces different results each time the program is run. Different world by entering a different key