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Floney Yang

University of Michigan Ann Arbor 2021

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[ Software Engineer ] [ Game Developer ] [ Concept Artist ]

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  • Software Engineer at Microsoft

  • Co-founder and Game Developer at HardBoiled Studios

  • Artist at heart

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[Awards]

  • 1st Place

Won 1st place with game Yolked in Student Games Showcase 2020 at University of Michigan.

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  • 1st Place

Won 1st place with game Back2Back in the WolverineSoft 2020 Shammy Game Jam at the University of Michigan.

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YOLKED

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[Description]

Yolked is a physics-based, action-adventure platformer that follows the journey of an egg.

[Award]

Yolked won 1st place at the Student Games Showcase hosted by Umich.

[Publishing]

Yolked is on track to release Steam and Nintendo Switch by Q2 2022 with Publisher Hitcents.

​[Engineering] 

  • Circular queue based object pooling system

  • Physics based arm movement

  • Inverse kinematics animation

  • Serializable saving system

  • Enemy auto path finding 

  • Pub/Sub event management system

  • Costume collection

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Yolked
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Project PLATO

[Engineering] 

  • Raymarch technique in shader programming to render 4D objects with a fourth spatial variable w using matrix manipulation and distance function

  • Collision detection without colliders by calculating distance between player and raymarch objects using ray origin

  • Gravity detection by simulating gravity force

  • Randomization of NPC allocations and movements

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[Description]
Project Plato is my research project on the topic of 4D visualization.

Inspired by Miegakure, this game is a 3D slice of a 4D world with puzzle-solving mechanic where the player controls the higher dimensional geometries in the fourth dimension in order to solve puzzles, find keys, and access the portal to the next level.
 

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BACK    2 BACK

[Engineering] 

  • Fast Prototyping

  • Player movement/control

  • Health system

 

[Description] 
Back2Back is a web game made in 48 hours for a game jam.
Back2Back is an action-packed shooter minigame that follows these two buddies as they defend themselves against spikes and lasers. But there's a twist–you must control both players at the same time as they stand back-to-back.

 

[Award]
Back2Back won 1st Place in the University of Michigan Shammy Game Jam.

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LIGHT

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[Engineering] 

  • Inheritance/Polymorphism based classes for input handler and command with decoupling design principle

  • Mesh Generation using ray casting with 3D math based edge detection

  • Ray casting enemy detection system

  • Enemy pathfinding

  • Enemy State Logic

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[Description] 
Light is a puzzle-platformer maze game that controls a blue light bulb to find the key in a dark maze while avoiding enemies. 

Technical Design
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Procedural Generation

[Technical Design]

[Engineering]

  • Custom procedural generation algorithm

  • Loading system

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[Description]
This is a procedural generation algorithm I created for a world with terrain, skybox, foreground/background/upground objects. This procedural generation algorithm focuses on generating several features of the world:

  • All the foreground objects are randomly generated at any location in a circular flat terrain

  • All the background objects are randomly generated in a “donut” shape range where the circular flat terrain will be placed at the center

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