King Author and the Sundered Story is a 2D puzzle platformer developed by a cross-disciplinary team of thirteen students at the DigiPen Institute of Technology. The project ran from September 2018 to April 2019.

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On this project, I worked on a variety of tasks, but mainly as a graphics programmer.

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My non-graphics tasks included programming the editor GUI for content creation (which can be seen in two of the images to the right), and integrating Lua scripting into the game for writing gameplay code. Additionally, I set up and managed the team's automated build server.

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The bulk of my time on this project, starting about halfway through, was spent refactoring the existing rendering code that had been written by another member of the team. The refactoring was necessary mainly for ensuring that the drawing process could be later extended to include new visual effects and sprite types.

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Beyond refactoring, I introduced a dynamic visual effect used for the "doors" in the game (which can mainly be seen below) and a special type of scrolling sprite used for the UI elements.