TerraTiler2D is a visual scripting Unity extension that assists developers in the procedural generation of 2D game worlds during runtime.

TerraTiler2D makes use of a node-graph UI system to define the procedural generation of worlds, and has over 120 different nodes to help users create exactly what they envision, including 4 different noisemap generators, and 6 different tile placing algorithms. All of these nodes have extensive documentation describing their functionality and purpose available on the documentation website.

Support for TerraTiler2D is still ongoing, and the tool receives updates regularly.

You can find TerraTiler2D on the Unity Asset store.

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WHACKo is my first solo developed game. All the programming, art, audio, and design is done by me.

The goal of this project was to test if I have the skills required to do solo game development as my full-time job.

Working alone requires a great deal of concentration and motivation, which I managed to keep up for the full 7 month project.

This is the first game I officially published on the Google Play store, which gave me insight into how important and difficult marketing is for creating a successful game.

Check out WHACKo on the Google Play store.

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Dream Engine is a VR game made by 7 students from SintLucas, in collaboration with VR company Enversed.

The goal of this project was to create a VR app which let visitors of the Dutch Design Week get a taste of VR in a fun and interactive way.

For this project I mainly worked on the frontend, like making sure the controls and interactions felt natural to the players, giving clear visual feedback when something important happens, and the general flow of the game.

By presenting this project on an exhibition I learned that not everyone will play your game the way you expect them to, and that you should prepare for that.

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Tales of Ne'ark is a grid based puzzle game based around naval combat.

This game is created using our own engine, which we created during the classes prior to this project.

The engine had to be built up from scratch, so that includes rendering models from .obj files, applying lighting, calculating position and rotation using matrices, mouse raycasting, and much more.

Besides making general improvements to the engine like the ones mentioned above, we also had to make the actual game.
The two biggest gameplay related tasks for me during this project were generating the levels from .csv files, and AI and pathfinding.
For the pathfinding I applied the A* method.

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Emgarth's Arena is a two player fighting game in which each player controls a powerful wizard. The game is made by eight 2nd year students from Saxion.

For this project we were given complete freedom as to what we could make, so our only restriction was time. Within the 3 weeks we had we managed to implement 9 unique spells with unique visuals, and all the other mechanics needed for a functional game.

During this project I mainly worked on the main gameplay elements like spell hit detection, mana, respawning, etc.
I also spent a chunk of my time on UI interaction. Implementing the unique spells was a shared effort by both programmers.

This was the first project where the game needed controller support while we weren't allowed to use external libraries, which was a real eye-opener as to how valuable it is to reuse code that has already been written, albeit by someone else.

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Etna is an endless runner type game, in which the player runs through underground tunnels to outrun 'The Darkness'.

This was the first project during my time at Saxion where the game had to be 3D. At that time I already had quite a bit of experience with Unity and 3D thanks to my previous study at SintLucas.

The biggest challenge in Etna was to make the movements feel natural and fluent, so that is what I spent most of my time on.

Like stated before, this was the first 3D project of the study, and thus I was working with some artist with no prior experience other than their classes.
The main issue was that most assets weren't seemless and didn't connect properly, which created small ridges and edges that would stop the player's movements.
In later projects I have been spending more time to make sure that everyone understands their, and each others tasks, so that issues like these show up less often.

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Lantern is a relaxing VR game I made during my internship at Fantazm. I worked on it together with one other artist intern.

The goal of the project was to make a VR experience that wasn't too taxing on the player, whilst still requiring VR interaction.

VR was still in an early phase of development at the time of making this project. We were working with the very first Oculus Rift development kit.
This proved to be a substantial challenge, because the smallest spike in performance would cause the headset to lag, which in turn could cause nausea for the player.
I spent most of my time optimizing the performance of the game by utilizing object pooling, LOD filters, draw call batching, and spreading world generation out over a larger period of time to prevent lag spikes.

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Discothulu is the result of a 2 week project in which we were tasked with making an arcade game using the GXPEngine, a small 2D engine provided by Saxion.

This was the third project during my study at Saxion, and we had only been working in 2D up to this point.
I was getting tired of working in 2D, so I proposed a 2.5D game, which the rest of the team happily agreed to.

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