Guitar Hero: On Tour

Guitar Hero: On TourDuring the summer and fall of 2007 I worked at Activision's Vicarious Visions studio in Albany, NY developing Guitar Hero: On Tour for the Nintendo DS.  

This title will have more than 20 songs, it's own peripheral entitled the "Guitar Grip," and also a guitar-pick shaped stylus.

While I was there, I worked on 2D, 3D and UI aspects of the game using C++, XML, and XSL, and I programmed several of the Guitar Duel attacks incorporating microphone, touch screen and guitar peripheral input.

I also as coded most of the menus for the game, and improved the system for importing menus from 3DSMax to in-game.

More information can be found at the game's website, and links to preorder the game before it's (planned) June 22nd release:

www.GuitarHeroOnTour.com

Screenshots:

 

 

 

The "Guitar Grip" Peripheral:

 

SVG Projects Site

For my client side scripting class, we learned a lot about JavaScript, but my professor was also really into Scalable Vector Graphics.

So for the SVG project we did, I took my Flash Projects Site and converted it to use SVG.

SVG is unfortunately only supported by Opera currently, so if you're using a different browser, you're not going to get the nice animation effects.

Check it out!

Towerpocalypse

Towerpocalypse Towerpocalypse is a 3D castle defense game in DirectX using C++ with castle upgrades, special weapons, and a relentless onslaught of enemies attempting to destroy your castle.

We used models imported from Maya, Shaders to do particle effects, multitexturing, animating textures, and the terrain is generated from a heightmap.

I don't have a way at the moment to grab any screenshots or videos, but hopefully soon.

We drew inspiration from the 2D flash game Defend Your Castle.