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Unity
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Cat-astrophe!
Cat-astrophe! was made in April of 2023 and it is a VR Game made in Unity (2021.3.17f1). Cat-astrophe! was an independent project that was made for Megan's first class working in Unity. For this game, Megan used an older version of unity so she needed to manually create the locomotion system for player movement. Megan had created many assets using unity primitives including the furniture, the litter box (and everything in it), and the remote. All other small assets came from TurboSquid.
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Wine Time
Wine-Time was made in October and November of 2023 and it is
a VR Game made in Unity (2021.3.17f1). Wine-Time was an independent
project that was made for Megan's Serious Games class. Wine-Time is a winery
simulator where the player would serve the customers and try to pour the right amount to
receive a better review. At the end of the game the review is calculated and if you receive more than 3 stars, you get to keep your job.
For this game, Megan used an older version of Unity so she used the locomotion system she had created previously in Cat-astrophe! for player movement.
Megan had created all of the assets for Wine-Time except for the glasses (from TurboSquid) and the music (from the Unity assets Store).
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All pictures seen here are from mid-process. The final product only had slight changes like the environment having a roof, minor adjustments to customer text and scoring system.
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Wolfjam Hackathon
This minigame was made for the Wolfjam Hackathon that Megan participated in. The hackathon took place for one day in November of 2023. For this event,
Megan worked in a team of 6. Megan was tasked with creating one of the minigames, specifically, the spot the difference minigame. The minigame was made in 3D Unity so that it
could easily work with the main game and the other minigame. Due to time constraints, this minigame was done in about an hour or two.
Below is a video of the
minigame a little before the game was finished. The player is meant to find all the differences and then enter the answer to procede to the next part of the story.
All code for this was implemented though it was not demonstrated in this video.
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Peer Education
In Megan's last semester at UAlbany (Spring 2024), she worked as a peer educator for the Game Design & Development 2 class. This class consisted of helping students with their Unity projects and repositories. More about this position can be found in the Resume section of this website. Below are some videos Megan had thrown together to help students with frequently asked questions and to go over what the students had learned in class so they would not feel lost if they fell behind. These videos are quite lengthy but each one links to Megan's YouTube where she has posted about her projects.
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Unreal Engine
Hide & Go Squeak!
Hide & Go Squeak! was made in April of 2024 and it is a VR Game made in Unreal Engine 5. Hide & Go Squeak! was a team
project that was made for Megan's AR/VR class. Megan did a lot of work in Blueprints for this project and it was her first game made in Unreal. Doing
VR for her first Unreal project was certainly a challenge but it was relatively easy for Megan to work with Blueprints.
Megan was able to add adjustable music and SFX sounds.
She also allowed the player to switch between teleportation and continuous movement based on their preferences. Megan had programmed and set up the beginning and end
screens for the game as well. As a last thing to add, Megan had coded a clock table that moved along as if hands on the clock were spinning. In the future she would
love to code this to set a timer for the player to find the mice by and add a losing condition to the game as well.
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Note: When you pick the mouse up it squeaks! The coding for this was done by Megan.
Due to the quality of the video it is hard to see the text though it is easy for players to read the text while playing the game. There was a timer for the beginning screen that allowed the players enough time to read the instructions before being brought into the game. The teleportation function can also be seen in this video and a brief bit of the main area is seen as well.
The player can take their time finding the mice and have fun in the environment since there are no time constraints. After all mice are found the player would be brought to the end screen. The end screen consists of a "You Win" text and each mouse on a shelf next to their portrait. The end screen is not seen in this video though it is essentially the same as the intro screen but with different music, shelves, pictures, and different text. In future versions of the game, the development team would like to add timed modes, more levels, and more hiding spots.
Websites
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Gaming Recommendation Site
This is the first website Megan had created. It was for a class in the Fall of 2021. For this project, Megan had decided to make a brief gaming recommendation website.
Megan was a Twitch streamer at the time and has always loved video games so she thought it would be a fun website to make. She tried to keep the color scheme close to the colors for
her Twitch logo.
There are many things Megan would change about this site if it was made today instead of years ago. One big change would be the videos used in the tabs. On the server
that the website was being posted to there was a size limit that Megan had not realized until last minute and had to quickly make shorter videos. Megan would also add more games, different games,
more game options, a way for users to get to each game without scrolling, and more if it were done today.
The video below gives a brief overview of the site. In the future, Megan would
love to remake this site with the changes listed above and post it to it's own custom domain. Listed below the video is a link to the site in it's state from 2021 if you would like to visit
it and check it out!
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Megan's Portfolio Site
This is the site you are on right now! Megan coded this site entirely using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. She started off with the Gaming Recommendation Site she had
made as a template. Though that site started off as her template, she had completely scrapped everything in that site except the intrapage link.
The version of the site you see here is it's FIRST completed form. You may notice updates that are not posted in this gallery. That means that these updates
likely came after July 2024. For any major updates to the site Megan will be sure to add a picture or video to the gallery showing the update and saying when it was completed.
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Art
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coding is fun.
Blender
Below are some of Megan's Blender projects that she has made for some of her games. Megan is looking to improve on her blender and art skills to enhance her games in the future.
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Piskel
Piskel has been Megan's preferred way to make art when she experiments in her free time. If you would like to see a game made entirely out of Megans' pixel art please visit Megans' itch.io page. This can be found in the contact section of this site. The game is called "Bee game" and it was Megans' first game.
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coding is fun.