https://store.steampowered.com/app/4675330/Soothe/

Soothe is a small Unreal Engine 5 puzzle game I have published to Steam. You awaken at the bottom of a rusted pit, another forgotten machine amongst a pile of those who came before. On your right, an extendable grappling claw, and on your left, a melted screen. You are given only one goal - reach the light above.

This project is a primarily a showcase of the cool tricks you can pull off with material arithmetic. Such examples include real-time rusting of metal robotic arms, false walls that are exposed by using mesh distance fields from those arms, object materials that can only be seen with certain other specific materials directly behind them, and a spooky glass/CRT post process effect that puts you behind the eyes of a long forgotten robot.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2411730/Lord_Privateer/

Lord Privateer is my first 3D Unreal Engine project. As the undead captain of a mysterious vessel sent from the afterlife into a somber world ruled by an ultra-powerful ocean tyrant, you are tasked with laying waste to evil seafaring forces, vanquishing powerful champion vessels, demolishing naval forts, and displacing The Patriarch from his position of power.

Lord Privateer is a single-player, open-world, ship-combat exploration experience. The player can engage in open-world ship battles, boss boat fights, naval fort assaults, and manual landmark navigation to progress through the story. This project hits many of the core tenets of full spectrum game development and helped start me on my journey in a big way.

"Project Kaiju" is a build of a multiplayer arena project I have in the works. This prototype features replicated multiplayer movement from grapples that can be fired from the arm and allow the players to swing from buildings at great speeds and heights. I intend to continue working with this system to create a satisfying lateral and vertical movement system akin to that in the legendary Attack on Titan. The animations being used were provided courtesy of my good friend Thomas Snyder, who is experienced in modeling and animating with Blender:

https://www.upwork.com/freelancers/~012c438bfcedc1b6b8?mp_source=share

https://bingitybongity.itch.io/cinematic-swordfight-simulator

Cinematic Swordfight Simulator is a minimalist art style 2D swordfighting party game, and the first I ever made. Grab a few controllers and duel to the death against your friends, blade to blade!

I made Cinematic Swordfight Simulator in the Game Maker 2 engine, and made it available online at itch.io February 2021. CSS, as I like to call it, is a two-player fighting party game played on controllers that puts two players in opposition armed with swords and scarves. It's simple and it's fun, a blueprint that is always good to follow.

Incoming!! is a 2D, top-down, twin-stick style high intensity dodgeball game. Square up against waves of opponents and take them down one at a time by mastering the humble dodgeball!

This game was the result of a group project for CS 383 Software Engineering at University of Idaho, made alongside Kevin Wing and Gary Banks in the Unity engine. This game is not yet available online, but will soon be uploaded to itch.io.

https://github.com/kevinwing/sweep

This is a classic take on Minesweeper written in C++. The game was the final group project I participated in for CS151 Computer Science II at North Idaho College. I helped put this together alongside Kevin Wing and Caleb Simmons. This program can be installed and played from the terminal using the instructions in the Github repository.

https://github.com/connor-mcelroy/360-project

In a break from video games, I present below screenshots from the MyHome project I completed for CS360 Database Systems at University of Idaho alongside Kevin Wing. This project is built within the Laravel framework and involved HTML, CSS, and PHP. It supports communication with a localhost database to enable the creation of user accounts that allow the posting of user houses and their features in tandem with the creation of vendor accounts that allow the posting of home services for sale. The user accounts have access to a service calculator to compare and contrast the benefits and costs of advertised vendor services and allow the user to check out new services for their home.