Tech-Nostalgic
Hello, I'm Isaiah.
I'm originally from Seattle WA but have lived all around the US in the past: Washington, Oregon, Colorado, New Hampshire, Michigan, and now I'm back in Colorado.
About
I'm primarily a gameplay programmer and designer but I can take on most all other developer roles as well as design and technical artist roles. I made my first game in 2010, marking 13 years of hobby experience in the field with the last 6 years being industry experience.
Projects
Every project featured in the showcase signifies my role as a lead or
sole developer. You'll find these projects in the column to your right
or, for mobile viewers, in the row at the bottom of the page. For a
brief insight, hover over each project to view a short video clip.
Click on them for a deeper dive into the project details or to
experience the game yourself.
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Unfortunately, due to proprietary restrictions, I'm unable to share the repositories or builds for the Unity projects I've worked on. However, I have created a video reel to demonstrate some of the unique aspects I contributed to these projects. This reel can be found below:
Skill Overview
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Timeline
Hover over, click, or touch each entry to view details
Today
Match-3 style puzzle game made for standalone iOS and Android app
- TypeScript PixiJS, Object Oriented Design
- Project length: ~9 months
- > 100k downloads
Hex based tile game made for Arc8
- TypeScript PixiJS, Object Oriented Design
- Project length: ~6 months
- Hexagonal coordinate grid
- > 70k players
- > 500k games played
Addictive 2D arcade game released for Arc8
- TypeScript PixiJS, Object Oriented Design
- Project length: ~4 months
- > 120k players
- > 720k games played
A 3D arcade game which appeard on many gamee platforms
- JavaScript, Entity-Component Design
- Project length: ~4 months
- Procedural 3d tube mesh generated around infinite spline
- Non-Euclidean spline-based coordinate system
An entry for the Ludum Dare 46 game jam competition
- Vanilla JS, Object Oriented Design
- 156th out of ~5k entries
- Developed in under 72 hours
- Dynamic textures using canvas manipulation
- Custom collisions
- Custom realistic physics system
Sequel to the original Tubetris
- Vanilla JS, Object Oriented Design
- Intricate UI
- Save State using browser localStorage
- Play store release for Android
- Webview Integration for Android
An entry for the Ludum Dare 41 game jam competition
- Vanilla JS, Object Oriented Design
- Developed in under 48 hours
- Dynamic texture painting for blood effects
An entry for the Ludum Dare 40 game jam competition
- Vanilla JS, Object Oriented Design
- 134th out of ~3k entries
- Developed in under 72 hours
- Custom lighting effects from 2D canvas context
- Input recording and integration into enemy AI
Ramhack 2017 This was my second entry in the Ram Hack hackathon. We created an educational to-scale model of the solar system.
- C# - Unity, Entity-Component Design
- Award for outstanding visuals
- Developed in under 72 hours
- Network enabled - multiple users per session
First time I licenced one of my games to a company - Coolmath Games
- Vanilla JS - Data Oriented Design
- Over 60k unique players
- Unique puzzle mechanics
An entry for the Ludum Dare 38 game jam competition
- Vanilla JS - Object Oriented Design
- 14th out of ~3k entries
- Custom physics with dynamic gravity field
An entry to the 2017 XKCD game jam
- Vanilla JS - Object Oriented Design
- 1st place out of 88 entries
- Developed in under 72 hours
- Custom polygon collision & collision resolution
- Custom linear and rotational physics
An entry for the Ludum Dare 37 game jam competition
- Vanilla JS - Data Oriented Design
- 138th out of ~2k entries
- Developed in under 72 hours
- Dynamic Terrain
An experimentation project I did to try out game development in python
- Python - PyGame, Object Oriented Design
- Developed in under a week
- Custom vector graphic transformations
- Custom IO for saving and loading score
First game jam entry - Ludum Dare 27
- C# - XNA (MonoGame)
- 20th out of ~1.5k entries
- Developed in under 72 hours
- Custom IO for saving score and loading levels
Enjoy :)