Projects
Rooftop Rider
A high-octane 3D platformer where you play as a motorcycle. Ride, boost, and stunt your way atop city rooftops to navigate towards objectives as quickly and stylishly as you can.
Rooftop Rider plays like a combination of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater and Rocket League, where speed and precision are paramount both when riding on rooftops and boosting through the air. The Pro Skater element enters when you use up all of your boost- hit some crazy tricks to fill up your boost bar faster so you can get back to flying across the city.
R/P/S
An ultra-simple rock-paper-scissors roguelike. Throw your hands and flip your coins to beat and block your enemy's attacks, and build your arsenal at the shop before you get overwhelmed.
For R/P/S, I attempted to boil down the roguelike deckbuilder formula as much as possible. The game centers around luck as another resource you have to manage- your money is based on the outcome of each match, and the outcome of each match relies on your items’ randomized outcomes. You have to spend your money wisely to give yourself the best shot of beating all the rounds.
Play it here: https://sam-b-02.itch.io/rps
BubbleBall
Inverted tennis played by fish in a tank. Volley the bubble back and forth below the net, but don’t despair if you whiff- build up momentum and leap out of the water to spike the bubble over the top of the net to catch your opponent off guard.
BubbleBall was created for the Global Game Jam 2025 with the same team from AQU(fish)ARIUM. It’s a two player game not dissimilar to tennis. Since we had to work with the theme of “Bubble,” we thought of how bubble physics could apply to a tennis-like game. In the end, we settled on the push-and-pull of the bubble being able to be hit over the net, but you’d have to jump out of the water and be carried only by your momentum in order to hit the bubble once it leaves the water.
Play it here: https://sam-b-02.itch.io/bubbleball
AQU(fish)ARIUM
There’s something weird about the fish…
AQU(fish)ARIUM was created for the Global Game Jam 2024. With the theme “make me laugh,” my team members and I thought it’d be funny to create an aquarium builder (chiefly inspired by Chillquarium) where all the fish are the same except for their funky hats. What makes the game unique is the ability to use fish you’ve caught as bait, allowing you to catch new fish depending on your bait’s rarity level.
Play it here: https://sam-b-02.itch.io/aqufisharium
Project Signal
You find yourself alone and sealed into an isolated arctic base. Over the speaker, a scientist cryptically warns you that someone- or something- is trapped there with you. Can you escape and find rescue?
Project Signal is a Virtual Reality escape room project with an emphasis on atmosphere and horror. Restrictions to the allowed space and time the project could take place in challenged my group to confine environmental storytelling to a small space and deliver the story in a succinct manner. We successfully created an immersive virtual experience where visitors were engaged and- more importantly- scared.
