Video Game Design & Development

XING: The Land Beyond

XING

You Died. Welcome to XING. Your body may be gone, but your life has just begun. In death, you will find yourself on a journey across a series of mysterious lands, in an afterlife where you must uncover secrets as to who you are and why you are there.

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I helped found White Lotus Interactive in order to create the critically-acclaimed virtual reality video game Xing: The Land Beyond. I co-designed, programmed, and developed game mechanics, level design, art, puzzles, and visual effects, marketed the game at over a dozen trade shows where I gave and analyzed over a thousand virtual reality demos given to attendees, helped develop the game’s narrative and gameplay, and worked with Sony, Epic Games, and Oculus to bring the game to market.

Here are some screenshots of XING: The Land Beyond which feature my work, including artwork, game mechanics, and interfaces all at various stages in development. This collection includes screenshots prior to the game's release in 2017. All rights reserved to White Lotus Interactive, LLC.

Hyaku Lake - Early Development (Unreal Engine 3)

XING 4th level "Naar" Snake Puzzle Development and Design + Level Design

XING: The Land Beyond Logo

UE4 Environment Design, 3D Modeling

Middle Stage Puzzle Pillar Design UX and Development

UE4 Environment Design, 3D Modeling

XING Cover Early Mockup

UE4 Environment Design, 3D Modeling

Early Puzzle Pillar Design and Prototyping

UE4 Environment Design, 3D Modeling

Beach Puzzle 1

XING Environment Design + Power Pad UX

Early XING Power Pad and Poetry UX

I included some "Ruby on Rails" inside the Agnirok level at one point as a reference to the full-stack framework

Early XING poetry UX

Unexpected but humorous results from programming our coconut spawning system. (Unreal Engine 3)

Early XING Puzzle Mecahnic UX, Poetry UX

XING Level Entry Threshold Design and Development

Late XING Development "Power Pad" UX and Design

Early XING 3D Tutorial Efforts

XING 4th level "Naar" Snake Puzzle Development and Design

Unreal Engine 4 - Environment Design, 3d modeling. Early Zeneth iteration (2014-2015)

VFX - White Lotus Logo Opening

Unreal Engine 4 - Environment Design, 3d Modeling. 2016

VFX - XING: The Land Beyond Title

Me working on Xing back in 2014!

Unreal Engine 4 - Environment Design, Hard Surface Modeling in Autodesk Maya

Unreal Engine 4 - XING: The Land Beyond - 2016, UX Development of Poetry Holders

Unreal Engine 4 - Player Boundary and Respawn System Development

Unreal Engine 4 - Hyaku Lake - Architecture Modeling and Texturing

Unreal Engine 3 - Modeled in Autodesk Maya, Texture Bakes from Photoshop and xNormal

Unreal Engine 3 - Modeled and Textured in Maya, Photoshop, xNormal

Unreal Engine 3 - Using camera captures to create a portal effect (early Xing: The Land Beyond ~ 2013)

Unreal Engine 3 - Modeled in Autodesk Maya, Texture Bakes from Photoshop and xNormal

Me working on Xing back in 2014!

Unreal Engine 4 - Nahele Rain - Puzzle Design, Game Mechanic Development

2D Game Design Reel- Art, Code, & Music

Dogemon.com was a project built in 2014 using Ruby on Rails for a college game competition. Inspired by Neopets + Pokemon, this game featured user-generated content and was built on top of the Dogecoin crypto-currency, allowing for a partially self generating economy and game world. The community grew to around 500 users. I stopped development to work full time on XING: The Land Beyond once I graduated college in 2015.

Video Game Design & Development

XING: The Land Beyond

XING

XING: The Land Beyond - Screenshots

3D Modeling 2013-2014

2D Game Design Reel- Art, Code, & Music