Pony Express
Ride out into the weird west and embark on a mail delivering adventure along with your trusty steed. Solve puzzles and experience the chaotic beauty of the weird west as you dodge mail stealing bandits.
Pony Express uses a custom controller to simulate riding an actual horse! Your "H.O.R.S.E." (Haptic Operated Rider Saddle Experience) is outfitted to respond to inputs like an actual horse! Pull the reins to turn or stop, kick to go, use physical letters to deliver mail, and press the saddle horn to breathe fire!
Lead Gameplay Engineer
Designed and programmed every rideable mount in game along with their unique ability
Implemented a complex AI system to act as enemies and obstacles.
Created a system to utilize dynamic cameras for interaction cutscenes.
Contributions
Ride Em’ Cowboy!
Created systems to detect mount pickups and switch between different mounts.
Designed each mount’s ability and made each mount easily tweaked and accessible to make new mounts fast.
Enemy Bandits incoming!
Created enemy behavior trees and controller to detect the player and initiate attacking and running away.
Utilized the Environment Query System to craft a smarter pathing system to players and obstacles.
Designed a dynamic patrol route that is easily modifiable for level designers to tweak and to adapt to changing of maps.
