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title: Resonance
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Resonance is a cyberpunk-themed game show shooter. Enter the arena, blast your
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opponents, and become the star of the show. I worked with a student team of 12
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to create this game over multiple months. The game was selected as an **IEEE
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GameSig finalist**.
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*Steam link coming soon!*
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My core role was to implement the game's networking logic using PurrNet, an
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open-source library for Unity.
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My first project was to implement networking for **Arena**, a free-for-all PVP
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game mode, where the player with the most eliminations wins. I learned how to
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isolate game logic on the server and synchronize state on each client. The
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networked API for Arena is used by every aspect of the game, including the
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scoreboard UI and spotlight mechanic. Following a pivot in the game’s core
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direction, I successfully handed this system to another engineer, who
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implemented a rating system for style points.
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Another project was the **build system**. Having a server dependency and Steam
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integration meant that the environment differed from development to production.
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We found it painful to prepare a build for each class-mandated playtest. With
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the help of Claude, I created a two-step system: an editor script to build and
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configure dependencies in one step, and a nightly GitHub Actions pipeline.
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Besides simplifying the build process, this created another positive side effect
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by ensuring we fixed compiler issues proactively.
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I'm currently working on a client-side prediction model to match other FPS games
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on the market.
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Even with our team size, the most important thing I learned was how to manage
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scope and scale. Each one of us pushed ourselves to the limits of our knowledge,
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going from bare theoretical understanding to practical working implementations.
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The goal was never to get things right on the first try; it was to learn and
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realize new ideas in multiple passes.
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