Pitaya! is an IN-PROGRESS project that has many elegant systems that work together to deliver fun hack and slash gameplay along with a very engaging gameplay loop with tangible short-, medium-, and long-term goals for players.

• Skills/Tools: Unreal 5, Perforce, Google Sheets, Blueprints

• Awards: 3rd Place @ UCI's ICS EXPO 2025, Best World Design @ IEEE Game Sig

My Contributions:

• Design and balanced skill trees, companions, and quest systems that loop back into each other.

• Allowed for deep player decision making with 24 unique skills that allow for a variety of choices.

• Acted as team lead by communicating clearly with all disciplines to navigate problems.

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• Prototyped and iterated on mechanics to ensure the player experience matched the game's goals.

• Wishlist on Steam!