Ryan Salam

A Single player third-person adventure game.

Team Size: 1

My Role: Gameplay & AI Programmer and Designer.

Worked on the first prototype iteration.

Created Character controller.

Created weapon system with a fluid combo system.

Dynamic enemy behaviour using state machine and a combat manager to create interesting and balanced combat scenarios.

A recreation of a retro game known as “Tapper”. Developed in Unity and for a custom arcade made with raspberry PI.

Team Size: 3

My Role: Solo Programmer.

Developed entire game system and custom inspectors such that client can easily balance certain values and create new levels.

An endless runner where you control a spaceship to destroy incoming asteroids.

Team Size: 1

My Role: Unity Developer. Creating prototypes for testing company’s in-house controller.

Capstone Project during college. A first-person shooter with tower defence elements. Defend the core against a horde of invading aliens. Buy different weapons and traps alongside 4 different characters each with their unique abilities.

Team size: 15

My Role: Lead Programmer. Designed the base architecture for game systems such that it was scalable and flexible for multiple iterations.

Delegated weekly tasks based on milestones. operated the team under an agile workflow alongside managing source control using Github.

Check the game out!

A driving mobile game where you control a Zamboni to clean the floor within a time limit. Developed for Android and IOS.

Team Size: 3

My Role: Gameplay Programmer.

Developed the vehicle system by calculating the various forces to apply on each tire.

Custom shader to manage cleaning the floor.

A top-down roguelite made in Unreal Engine.

Team Size: 12

My Role: Gameplay Programmer.

Developed various gameplay elements such as weapons and custom AI behaviour.

A First person shooter with an emphasis on movement abilities such as wall running and air dash. Play through various levels and encounter enemies with various weapons in your arsenal. Enjoy replayability as you try and get the fastest completion time for each level.

Accomplishments:

First-person character controller using Rigidbody and a state machine to handle various movement states.

Proof of concept for an Isometric hack n slash. The player uses a boomerang as their main weapon.

Accomplishment:

Top Down Character controller.

Weapon system with dynamic combo system.

Additional polish such as visual impact and hitstop.

A turn-based tactics rougelite. Manage a group of mercenaries as you traverse through various encounters.

Accomplishments:

Created a grid system alongside Astar pathfinding for unit movements.

Created a node based editor for designing abilities.

Generated roguelite system that allows for procedural encounter paths.

A custom editor tool for Unity. Allows users to create multi-branching dialogues with custom events and conditions.

Accomplishment:

Further understanding of Tree-based structures and Tools Programming using Unity’s new UI Toolkit.

An endless runner made for Android and IOS. Jump into the air and shoot the doors to keep going. Collect coins and get the highest score. A simple but skillful game where everything is done by just tapping the screen.

Releasing on IOS and Android Soon!

A custom unity tool to manage 2D animations without the need for the animator component. Built primarily to develop 2D fighting games. Can set up custom events throughout timeline while also creating hit boxes and hurt boxes for specific frames.