Real-time PVP Tower Defense

Tower Rush puts a unique twist on the classic tower defense genre. In this fast-paced PvP game, players simultaneously attack their opponent's base while defending their own against relentless waves of enemy troops. Gamezebo praised the game as "a breath of fresh air that gets the pace of everything just right." The recently released game has a growing, enthusiastic player base of over 10K.

Role:

Engineering Lead

Key Contributions:

•    Drove product vision, scope, timelines, and budget for a 9-person multidisciplinary team.
•    Architected and personally coded many core systems such as game state, user account management, UI framework, and multiplayer networking.
•    Contributed to game design and implemented core gameplay mechanics.
•    Built internal tools for art, VFX, story, and level design teams to accelerate content iteration.
•    Designed and implemented all of the UI/UX.

Time to Get Creative!

Crayola Create and Play is the official Crayola creativity app for curious kids, offering dozens of creative learning activities designed to build artistic independence, creative confidence, problem-solving, and self-esteem. The game has been a top 5 Apple Arcade title and is a recipient of the App Store Editor's Choice Award, the Academics' Choice Award, and the Best Mobile App Award. Create and Play currently boasts roughly 30K monthly active users.

Role:

Engineering Lead

Key Contributions:

•    Designed and built the foundational system for rapid creation, integration, and management of 30+ mini-games and apps within Create and Play.
•    Built sophisticated yet easy-to-use character customization and animation systems for the Create and Play pets.
•    Engineered a robust, easily extendable coloring system simulating a wide variety of real-world coloring tools, plus painting with stickers, stamps, and other visual effects.
•    Designed an intuitive UX that young children could pick up and enjoy with zero instruction.

A Modern Classic

Solitaire, but now with progressive difficulty storylines, gorgeous deck designs, daily challenges, global leaderboards, and a weird sense of humor. The Ampersand called Solitaire Stories "the best Solitaire game on mobile I've ever played." The game has maintained a 4.6 out of 5 rating from more than 10,000 players and earned a spot in Apple's curated "5 Relaxing Card Games" collection.

Role:

Engineering Lead

Key Contributions:

•    Developed a tooling pipeline enabling rapid integration of unique visual themes that reskin the game for each story.
•    Integrated and animated dozens of unique stories along with their progression maps.
•    Built systems for player accounts, progress tracking, inventory, and achievements.
•    Designed and coded a system for scheduling and auto-generating unique daily challenges.

A Good Vibes Match-3

Bold Moves is a one-of-a-kind game that combines match-3 play with a word puzzle as players create and collect positive, inspirational quotes. With daily gifts and new special events added all the time, there is always a reason to play. With over 2M downloads, Bold Moves was selected as one of Oprah's Favorite Things and was named a 2018 Webby Award winner for Best Word & Trivia Game.

Role:

Engineering Lead

Key Contributions:

•    Built a series of tools for scheduling and presenting weekly events, complete with unique progression maps and rewards.
•    Designed and built the match-3 engine from the ground up, with support for over 30 unique tile types.
•    Developed an in-game level editor that let level designers create, test, and upload new level content on device, speeding up the content creation process by 3x.
•    Engineered player authentication, progress tracking, inventory, and achievement systems.
•    Designed and implemented much of the UI/UX.