Game Development | Jater Xu

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PAGODA DEFENDER AR

RELEASE: DEC. 2017, Apple iOS AppStore

TOWER DEFENCE

AUGMENTED REALITY

UNITY 2017

APPLE AR KIT

3D TOUCH SUPPORT

XCODE 9

LOGIC PRO X

iOS11

RELEASED PROJECT

ROLES INVOLVED:

PROGRAMMER (TEAM LEAD)

TECHNICAL ARTIST

(LIGHTING, MODEL OPTIMIZATION, SCENE RENDERING, LEVEL DESIGN, GRAPHICS OPTIMIZATION)

MUSIC COMPOSER (BACKGROUND MUSIC, SOUND EFFECTS)

GAME DESIGNER (ART DIRECTION, RULES, GAMEPLAY MECHANICS, UI DESIGN)

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Ocean Map

Cloud Map

AR rendering of the game, objects are placed onto the detected plane.

Handbook Info Menu

Customiziable Haptic Feedback and Vibration Patterns

3D Touch and customized haptic feedback is capable for this game on recent iOS devices

Chinese Ink Style User Interface

3-Point Lighting, Fill Light, Back Light, Key Light (Before Tweaking)

EV RACER

TRAILER VIDEO

UNITY 2018

LOGIC PRO X

C#

ARCHIVED PROJECT

DEVELOPED BY TEAM FORMULA 2 AT CDM

ROLES INVOLVED:

PROGRAMMER (MECHANICS, CAMERA SYSTEM)

TECHNICAL ARTIST

(LIGHTING, MODEL OPTIMIZATION, SCENE RENDERING, LEVEL DESIGN, GRAPHICS OPTIMIZATION)

MUSIC COMPOSER (TRAILER MUSIC)

TYEE

FIGHTING

ARCADE

UNITY 2018

LOGIC PRO X

C#

ARCHIVED PROJECT

2D fighting game that features an arcade art style and fighting feedback

TYEE

FIGHTING

UNITY 2018

LOGIC PRO X

ARCHIVED PROJECT

2D Fighting Game Tyee

FUTUROLOGY

REAL-TIME STRATEGY

FIRST PERSON EXPLORATION

THIRD PERSON DRIVING

UNITY 5

NVIDIA ANSEL

LOGIC PRO X

C#

ARCHIVED PROJECT

Tundra Terrain: Players are able to build their base and units anywhere on the tundra.

Unit Driving: Players are able to drive the vehicles they build directly to explore the tundra terrain.

Enemy Force: Enemy base can be explored by player's vehicles, which allows tactical planning.

Savannah Terrain: Alternative Savannah scene besides Tundra scene.

NVIDIA Ansel Support: This project enables NVIDIA Ansel support for in game post processing effects and ultra resolution screen capturing.

Isometric View: Isometric View for traditional RTS planning
Legend: 1. Player Unit Info Panel 2. Camera Switch Tip 3. Mini Map 4. Sound System Mix Bar 5. Sound Info Panel 6. Isometric Camera Lock 7. Tutorial Info 8. Player Status 9. Enemy Info Panel 10. Health Bar

First Person View: First Person View allows a more detailed RTS gameplay, players can repair their units, and drive or interact with the units they build. Legend: 1. Build Menu 2. Unit List 3. Camera Switch Tip 4. Compass 5. Weapon Info Panel 6. Player Status 7. Tutorial Panel 8. Crosshair

SOUTH

SURVIVAL

EXPLORATION

OGRE3D

WORLD MACHINE

GORILLA

OPENAL

BLENDER

LOGIC PRO X

C++

ARCHIVED PROJECT

Real Life Terrain Modelling: The terrains in this project are based on its referenced location in real life. This is a terrain inspired by Hudson Mountain Area in Canada

Optimization: Since Ogre3D do not support LOD originally. In order to deduce the framerate drops, all meshes are pre-processed by Blender.

Gorilla GUI: Ogre3D does not support UI originally. The GUI of the project is imported from a third party GUI library called Gorilla.

Main Menu: In Game Main Menu is pretty simple
Skybox: The skybox implementation is inspired by the most popular FPS called Crossfire. Which features a hemisphere and texture with inverted normal.

Position Based Sound Effect: Since Ogre3D does not support position based sound effects like Unity, a third party sound library called OpenAL was introduced to the project for better sound performance.

HIGHWAY CONCERT

MUSIC

RACING

SPLIT SCREEN MULTIPLAYER

SFML

LOGIC PRO X

C++

ARCHIVED PROJECT

Split Screen Multiplayer: This project supports competitive split screen multiplayer. Players need to dodge the rockblocks and pick up items to attack other player and defend themselves (Like Mario Kart), and each rockblock or item is tied to the rhythm.

Main Menu: Player's choices under main menu will be changed in actual gameplay as well. All the animations in this game are harded coded in C++.

Single Player: This game also support a single player mode, players can challenge themselves for a full combo of a song, like traditional music games.

HIGH STAKES

TURN BY TURN STRATEGY

ECONOMY SIMULATOR

DESIGNED AND DEVELOPED WITHIN 7 DAYS

UNITY 5

C#

ARCHIVED PROJECT

Desktop Like UI Design: All windows can be open, dragged and closed just like it in Windows, and there is a Mac-like Dock bar under the bottom of the screen for overall management.

Investment System: Players can invest their money into 6 different industries, including Real Estate, Tourism, Grocery, Manufactory, Transportation and Technology.

Management Panel: Each Industry has its own Management Panel, and each day there will be different RNG events that will affect players' investment, just like real life stock market.

Cable Car System: To visualize the transportation between different cities, a cable car system is developed for better visualization.

City Plan: The overall city and transportation of the project. Each city has its own pillar industry.

QUARANTINED

TURN BY TURN STRATEGY

UNITY 5

LOGIC PRO X

C#

ARCHIVED PROJECT

The welcome menu of the game

Dynamic Main Menu: Inspired by Colin Mcrae Rally: Dirt, this game also features a dynamic main menu like Dirt. Which Brings a more artitstic feelings

Simplicity UI and Inovative Map Design: The UI of this game is inspired by Dirt Rally, which is simple and serious. And the Map Design is inspired by a form of Japanese Art called Bonsai, for this project, all the main areas of a city are shrinked down to a small rooftop.

MER-A

MASSIVE MULTI-PLAYER

PUZZLE

SURVIVAL

EXPLORATION

UNITY 2017

WORLD MACHINE

C#

ONGOING PROJECT

DEVELOPED BY JUSTIN ZHANG

LEVEL DESIGN BY JATER XU

This picture shows the overall level design of the game (in early prototype state, UI and program developed by Justin Zhang)

The overall level design of the game is based on the terrain of the Mars.

CODENAME: LOST AND FOUND

SURVIVAL

SIMULATION

UNITY 5

NVIDIA ANSEL

MAP MAGIC

LOGIC PRO X

C#

POSTPONED PROJECT

This is a project I just started half a month ago, the idea is to have a female protagonist wandering on the island and hatch the living creatures by solving multiple puzzles located on the island.

Day and Night Cycle: This project supports day and night cycle. By using skybox blending shader and multiple directional lights (Light are not adjusted and no post-processing effects)

In Game Menu: Players could browse all the menu items in game, just like traditional RPG games.

ACOUSTIC KALEIDOSCOPE VR

MUSIC

VIRTUAL REALITY

UNITY 2017

STEAM VR

NVIDIA VRWORKS

LOGIC PRO X

HTC VIVE

ARCHIVED PROJECT

Gameplay Screenshot: The gameplay screenshot of the project.

Prototype Gameplay: Players are able to hit the drum by using 2 VR Controllers as Drum Sticks. The rhythm points are tied to the current song rhythm played. Lens Matched Shading and Multi-Resolution Rendering are enabled in this project for better performance.

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PAGODA DEFENDER AR

RELEASE: DEC. 2017, Apple iOS AppStore

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TOWER DEFENCE

AUGMENTED REALITY

UNITY 2017

APPLE AR KIT

3D TOUCH SUPPORT

XCODE 9

LOGIC PRO X

iOS11

RELEASED PROJECT

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ROLES INVOLVED:

PROGRAMMER (TEAM LEAD)

TECHNICAL ARTIST

(LIGHTING, MODEL OPTIMIZATION, SCENE RENDERING, LEVEL DESIGN, GRAPHICS OPTIMIZATION)

MUSIC COMPOSER (BACKGROUND MUSIC, SOUND EFFECTS)

GAME DESIGNER (ART DIRECTION, RULES, GAMEPLAY MECHANICS, UI DESIGN)

EV RACER

TRAILER VIDEO

UNITY 2018

LOGIC PRO X

C#

ARCHIVED PROJECT

DEVELOPED BY TEAM FORMULA 2 AT CDM

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ROLES INVOLVED:

PROGRAMMER (MECHANICS, CAMERA SYSTEM)

TECHNICAL ARTIST

(LIGHTING, MODEL OPTIMIZATION, SCENE RENDERING, LEVEL DESIGN, GRAPHICS OPTIMIZATION)

MUSIC COMPOSER (TRAILER MUSIC)

TYEE

FIGHTING

ARCADE

UNITY 2018

LOGIC PRO X

C#

ARCHIVED PROJECT

TYEE

FIGHTING

UNITY 2018

LOGIC PRO X

ARCHIVED PROJECT

FUTUROLOGY

REAL-TIME STRATEGY

FIRST PERSON EXPLORATION

THIRD PERSON DRIVING

UNITY 5

NVIDIA ANSEL

LOGIC PRO X

C#

ARCHIVED PROJECT

SOUTH

SURVIVAL

EXPLORATION

OGRE3D

WORLD MACHINE

GORILLA

OPENAL

BLENDER

LOGIC PRO X

C++

ARCHIVED PROJECT

HIGHWAY CONCERT

MUSIC

RACING

SPLIT SCREEN MULTIPLAYER

SFML

LOGIC PRO X

C++

ARCHIVED PROJECT

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HIGH STAKES

TURN BY TURN STRATEGY