Realm of Madness

An evil cult has kidnapped you and attempts to sacrifice you to their god Radu. To escape their castle you'll have to befriend a ghostly wisp, find futuristic weapons, and learn to use divine powers in this FPS adventure inspired by the Bioshock games.

A project nearly 2 years in the making! It was made in the user-generated content game Dreams on PS4 and PS5. Working on this project was what convinced me that I wanted to become a professional game developer.

This game won a Media Molecule Pick award from the game developers, has been played by 5000+ players, and has overwhelmingly positive feedback from players.

Role: Game Programmer/Designer/Story Writer

Contributions:

• Using the Dreams editor to program complex gameplay systems including:

  • • Weapons and spell abilities

    • Enemy patrolling and attack patterns

    • Currency the player collects and uses to buy ammo and other resources

    • A hacking mini game that let's you turn machines to your side

    • Multiple menus: pause, vending machine, main menu, etc.

    • Optimizing performance by culling features when offscreen, enabling smooth 60 FPS gameplay

• Designing a unique and engaging experience by:

  • • Designing enough combat encounters, exploration, and story content for roughly 2 hours of gameplay

    • Writing a horror-themed story about escaping from an evil cult

    • Sequencing cutscenes to tell my story

• Designing custom art assets such as the guns and enemies

Tools: Dreams (PS4/PS5)

See a trailer I made for level 3 below!