Projects on Terry Nguyen

Blubber Busters

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Blubber Busters at Thar Be Monsters

Build Engineer (Contract) at Thar Be Monsters–2015

I was contracted as a Build Engineer, working on Blubber Busters, a run-and-gun 2D action platformer that pits players into the depths of space (or space whales).

My contract concluded in October ‘15, but the teaser below most accurately reflects the state of the game during my time with Thar Be Monsters.

Content Development at AIE

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Content Development at AIE

In addition to creating supplemental content, part of my week is dedicated to prepping and developing course content for the whole institution (AIE Australia and AIE USA).

Subjects that I have updated or written are as follows:

Introduction to C++
Introduction to C# for Game Programming
Physics for Games
Maths for Games
Game Engine Scripting

Game Programming at AIE Seattle

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Game Programming at AIE Seattle

I’m a faculty member working as a Game Programming Instructor at AIE Seattle. I help deliver a two year course training students to be ready to work in entry-level positions in games. Our work is joined by the Game Art and 3D Animation; and Game Design and Production departments.

I also work on the Content Development team, resolving errors in learning materials and writing entire subjects as necessary.

Sinasprite

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Sinasprite

Interim Technical Director at Litesprite–2014-2015

I served as the Interim Technical Director for its flagship project, Sinasprite, a clinically-validated mental health mobile (video) game.

Available via Google Play Store and iOS App Store. Also available: Website.

Responsibilities

My responsibilities were as follows:

Undisclosed project

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Undisclosed Project

Principal Programmer at Undisclosed studio–2020-2023

I worked for an undisclosed studio as its Principal Programmer. I was the sole engineer for the team and worked closely with its artists and designers. I also worked regularly with the producer to adjust timelines and plans based on the project’s progress.

My major contributions to the project:

Prototyping a dialogue system in Unity with integrations for animations and gameplay mechanics
- Later, porting to Ink with existing dialogue front-end
Managing a persistent 3D world with a day/night cycle
Designing and implementing a quest system with quest object lifecycle management
Creating a UI management layer for pushing/popping UI screens and panel
Supporting Bolt visual scripting graphs with designers (or reimplementing as needed in C#)
Triaging bugs and porting fixes between releases
Upgraded the project from Unity 2019.X to 2020.X
Prepare game demo during Steam Next Fest June 2022 Edition

The game was released on Steam release in September 2022. 🚀

Vextar

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Vextar

Lead Programmer at Vextar Dev Team–2016-2019

I was the Lead Programmer for Vextar, a first-person multiplayer “disk-on-disk” action shooter game where players attempt to bounce each other out of the arena with projectile disks.

It was inspired by classic arena shooters like Ricochet, Quake, Doom, as well as Tron, of course.

Also available: Website, YouTube, and itch.io.