Nick Barrash - GameDev Portfolio

RimWorld

I worked as a Game Developer for one year on the Ludeon Studios RimWorld team during the Biotech expansion release cycle. Some of my contributions include:

• Design and implementation work on features including: reproduction, children, romance, quests, caravan improvements, biosculptor improvements, and more!
• Work on game systems including AI behavior trees, graphics, mod/XML content loading, and world simulation.
• Hunting down and implementing optimizations for poorly performing code using a profiler (was able to improve FPS 50%+ in testing against slow gamesaves).
• Writing content and flavortext for quests, item/character descriptions, menus, alerts, and tooltips.

Texas Choose 'Em

A new flavor of poker that's essentially Texas Holdem except players have additional agency in choosing their cards. The twist is, instead of players building their hands with 5 shared table cards, players claim areas on a 3x3 grid of table cards and build their hand with the cards in the areas they successfully claim.

My prototype has online mulitplayer. Host a private lobby and try it out with a friend! (or play against yourself in an incognito browser window).

Unity, Websockets, AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, RDS), Firebase

Frictionless

Randomized physics based puzzles. Aim your shapes on a frictionless surface such that one shape touches your opponent's goal before a shape touches your goal. Get three more wins than losses on a level to unlock the next stage.

There's a leaderboard that tracks which players win (or tie) all puzzles in the least number of attempts.

Unity, AWS (API Gateway, Lambda, RDS)

Ludum Dare 50 Compo - Stay Positive

• Date: April 2022
• Theme: Delay the inevitable
• Time: 48 hours
• Team: Solo
• Submission Link

Control your momentum to collect coins to keep your ever decreasing score above 0.

Ludum Dare 49 Compo - Skyscraper Construction Simulator

• Date: October 2021
• Rank: 28th out of 735
• Theme: Unstable
• Time: 48 hours
• Team: Solo
• Submission Link

Stack-em-up where blocks of the same color repel each other.

Ludum Dare 48 Compo - Miningsweeper

• Date: April 2021
• Theme: Deeper and deeper
• Time: 48 hours
• Team: Solo
• Submission Link

Mix of Minesweeper, Motherload, and Pokemon.

Ludum Dare 47 Compo - Infinite Pinball

• Date: October 2020
• Theme: Stuck in a loop
• Time: 48 hours
• Team: Solo
• Submission Link

Pinball, but instead of losing your ball if it falls through the bottom, you fall into the top of another pinball machine

Ludum Dare 46 Compo - Tom Braider

• Date: April 2020
• Theme: Keep it alive
• Time: 48 hours
• Team: Solo
• Submission Link

You're a tomb raider escorting your archaeologist client through dangerous puzzles in an ancient temple

Global Game Jam 2020 - Rekindle

• Date: January 2020
• Theme: Repair
• Time: 48 hours
• Team: Solo
• Submission Link

Type in as many wikipedia article names as you can think of in 30 seconds. Score points based on the number of links each article contains.