Taksh Goyal

• Unreal Engine Demo (Summer 2021 Solo Project): A 3D Platformer Game Demo made in 8 days Using the Unreal Engine can be seen with Basic AI Enemies on the 2 levels created with smooth player movement and animations.

 

• Space Rider (Spring 2021 Team of 4): Using previously Created Custom Engine, Developed a 3D Game, an Asteroid Shooter type Game. From Gameplay Perspective, plenty of elements were added. Such as the Randomly (but Player-Centric) moving Asteroids, Suicide Bombers, Enemies with static behavior which would come near to the player and start shooting it. Homing Missile power up, Dash power ups. The game had other mechanisms shown in the video which was stunning visual player-game feedback, progression system and UI etc.. developed by other teammates.  

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• Custom Game-Engine & Prototype (Fall 2020 Team of 5, Project): A 3D game engine was created. From an AI programmer's point of view, it had Behavior-Trees and Black-Board Architecture. Later, 3 prototypes were created which took Behavior-Trees for the Enemy-AI and the player's input mechanics for the actual gameplay. The 3D Game engine overall consisted of an advanced rendering pipeline containing cluster based rendering, soft moment shadow maps, particle system, Basic 3D physics(collision response and resolution), animations, Unity like ECS(Entity Component System) architecture and Unreal Engine like UI features like Gizmo, object pick and choose system which was multi-threaded and gave 60 frames per second without any frame drops.

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• Amazons Board-Game (Fall 2020 Math Project): Created a text-based ASCII game. Created an AI for the game to play with the human player. The AI followed a Min/Max, Max/Min strategy to play its move and the game was able to detect Win/Loss at a game-tree of height 3. 

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• Artificial Intelligence in Games (Summer 2020 Solo Projects): Implemented 5 different Behavior Trees with visually and intellectually different behaviors. Implemented vanilla A* search on a 2D grid with rubber-banding and smoothing. Implemented Terrain analysis for a real time strategy framework including Field of View, Occupancy Map, Visibility, Openness, Hide and Seek etc... Implemented Smart Objects as a research project to display and show that this approach is beneficial in ways to have a cleaner player data and many other advantages.

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• Math Projects (Unity3D Solo): Created a separated grid of tiles to show the solving of 2-dimensional wave equation using a Fourier Transform(with Riemann Sum) and Created a Mesh to show the solving of initial boundary value problem of a 2D wave equation.

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• Light of Empyrion: Forefront of Abyss (Master’s team of 4 Spring project 2020): Created a custom engine, worked on 2D physics(detection & resolution), FMOD integration and audio management, game design and gameplay programming. Watch Video

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• Tsk Game Engine & Game (Master’s Solo Fall Project 2019): Created a 2D Game (Matrix Style), with Event Manager, Component System, Object Factory, Physics(collision detection), OpenGL implementation with SDL 2.0, GLSL (low level). Met basic requirements for the Game Engine and a Game.

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• Graphics Project (Master’s Graphics Project 2019): Implemented Lighting (Phong’s & BRDF), Shadows, Normal Maps and textures, Reflection to the framework provided by the Professor. Understanding the Graphics pipeline and the basic mechanics required for all above to be implemented.

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• Aniam (Unity3D 2018 – Solo Project): Created a 3x3 map using asset store and filled it with correctly placed hills, trees, patches of grass and stony areas. Rigged a Character (created with MakeHuman) with multiple animations taken from asset store and created a scene that has Character’s UI health, hunger, thirst depleting with time. Day and Night settings with lighting with third person camera onto the character.