Hey there. I'm Riley Hendrickson Pike, a second-year programming student in Halifax, NS. Thanks for dropping by.
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The Duopus is a physics-based platformer, developed in Unity, inspired by games like Getting Over It and QWOP. Born out of the 2024 Global Game Jam, I am continuing to work on this project in my spare time.
Check back soon! I'll be adding more details here as development continues.
Rogue Planet(see the source on github), developed in Unity, is a game about a lonely interstellar miner who has crashed their ship on a strange planet. They must mine resources in the day, and defend their ship from the hostile local fauna by night.
This project was developed by me and a team of three other programmers, and represents my first serious foray into gamedev.
Our goal was to build a game similar to Dome Keeper, as we believed that having a solid reference point for design would allow us to focus more on learning the technical aspects of game development. This turned out to be true, and I learned a great deal while working on this project. However, it is also why development is now halted, given the team's general lack of interest in continuing to develop a game that is, conceptually, entirely unoriginal. I've chosen to showcase it here regardless, as I believe it is a strong testament to my skills as a programmer and my ability and drive to self-learn new technologies and skills.
Working on Rogue Planet, I learned many of the fundamentals of game development and design, including the principles of Entity-Component architecture, the dangers of scope creep, managing version control on a project with multiple contributors, and the process of collaborative development. I also learned a number of technical skills by developing systems for this game. Of the components I am personally responsible for, the ones I am most proud of are:
There is no publicly available executable for the game, though you can check out the source code on github. I will update this page in the future with videos and more images, but until then, if you are familiar with Unity, you may clone the repository and build the game yourself if you are interested.
Automatoy(see the source on github)is a generative art application utilizing cellular automata to synthesize human creativity and algorithmic accidents, producing striking and unique images.
This project is written in python and uses pyglet as a graphics library. It uses numpy arrays and vectorisation to optimize performance, and sciPy's convolution algorithms to calculate neighbourhood population density.
Python's limited performance means, unfortunately, that it is near impossible to get this app to do what I need it to do with the performance I am hoping to achieve. So, this app is serving as a prototype and I have started working on a revision of the program in C++.
If you'd like to play with the program, if you have the dependencies installed (pyglet, numpy, scipy, python 3.11), you can clone the repository above and run main.py.