Monsoon is a third-person 3D platformer where you journey around a tree to save monster villagers from the rising flood. Traverse over various platforms and make risky jumps to find as many villagers as you can!

Monsoon was created at DigiPen Institute of Technology. The game engine was built in Fall 2023, and the game was created in Spring 2024.

My Contributions (Game Design Lead, Gameplay/UI Programmer, Audio Engineer, Technical Designer)

• Designed and programmed movement, jumping, and camera controls

• Programmed moving, magnet, bouncy, and disappearing platform functionality

• Programmed rubber-banding for rising water with minimum and maximum speeds

• Designed UI functionality for the collection HUD and menus

• Created the scene transition with a pixelated post-processing effect

• Designed the opening and ending cutscenes with the dialog of the ending cutscene changing based on the number of villagers rescued

• Created audio events in FMOD Studio and programmed audio play points and volume changing for ambient noise based on how close the player is to the water

• Engine building

  • Physics

    • Collision detection with axis aligned bounding boxes for broad phase, and the
      Gilbert–Johnson–Keerthi distance algorithm for narrow phase, with the Expanding Polytope Algorithm used to find the penetration normal and depth

    • Collision resolution with impulses and collision events

  • UI

    • Setup UI with standard positioning, scaling, and anchor points

    • Created a UI editor with ImGui for in-game editing

  • Audio

    • Integration with FMOD Studio

  • Scripting

    • Built an object-oriented C++ script class with init and update functionality

  • Controller support

    • Multithreaded

    • App layer has access to Down, Up, Enter, and Release states

• Wrote the game design document

Duration: August 2023 - April 2024