Christopher D. Garcia

Genre: 2D Puzzle Platformer
Team: Unspeakable Pixels
Environment & Tools: Unity 3D & C#
Roles: Gameplay Engineer, UI Developer
Notes: I worked on this project as a freelance/contract developer, primarily helping out with UI development, gameplay engineering, and testing.

Genre: VR Tower Defense
Team: MyDream Interactive
Environment & Tools: Unity 3D & C#, Samsung Gear, DayDream
Roles: Gameplay Engineer, UI Developer, VR Implementation & Porting
Notes: This was a project worked on during my time at MyDream Interactive. The team was small and consisted of two Artists, a Community Manager/Tester, a Lead Designer/Developer, and me as a Gameplay/VR Developer. Some of my tasks included the implementation of various gameplay logic, cross platform VR implementations on various mobile headsets, and UI implementations.

Genre: VR Tower Defense
Team: MyDream Interactive
Environment & Tools: Unity 3D & C#, Oculus Rift, HTC Vive
Roles: Gameplay Engineer, UI Developer, VR Implementation & Porting
Notes: This was a project worked on during my time at MyDream Interactive. The team was small and consisted of two Artists, a Community Manager/Tester, a Lead Designer/Developer, and me as a Gameplay/VR Developer. Some of my tasks included the implementation of various gameplay logic, cross platform VR implementations on various mobile headests, and UI implementations.

Genre: 3D Sandbox Building Game
Team: MyDream Interactive
Environment & Tools: Unity 3D & C#, Parse Database, Amazon AWS
Roles: Gameplay Engineer, UI Developer, Server/Client Engineer
Notes: This was a project worked on during my time at MyDream Interactive. I worked closely with a small team of artists and programmers, and filled various roles from gameplay engineer, server-client logic implementation, designing various gameplay elements, testing & playtesting, UI and UX implementations, and in its later stages making a VR prototype of the game.

Genre: 2D Top-Down Mobile Arcade Game
Team: UCSC Games and Playable Media, Kid Natural Ltd.
Environment & Tools: Android SDK & Java, Marmalade SDK & C++
Roles: Game Designer, GamePlay Engineer, UI/UX Engineer, Port from Android to iOS (Marmalade SDK)
Notes: I first started working on this project summer of 2011 as an internship through the UC Santa Cruz Games and Playable Media in partnership with Kid Natural LLC. The project consisted of a UCSC advisor, the CEO of Kid Natural, and the dev team of me and another UCSC student. Our role as the dev team was to create a design for a mobile game that would be a fun arcade game based on surfing. As it was a small dev team I had a major role in the design and project management, as well as the implementation of the project from early prototype to release on various app stores. The project prototype was initially written in Android and Java for the length of the internship. After the internship and Android release, I continued to work with the Kid Natural team as a solo developer in charge of porting the project to iOS, Android, and Blackberry; for this role I had to rewrite the entire project in C++ and using the Marmalade SDK to port.

Genre: 2D Top-Down Dungeon Crawler
Team: UCSC Games and Playable Media
Environment & Tools: Marmalade SDK & C++
Roles: Game Designer, GamePlay Engineer, Game Engine Programmer
Notes: This was a senior thesis project for graduating college at UC Santa Cruz, in which I was on a team of 10+ students including artists, programmers, project managers, story writers, etc. Each student had a primary role on the team and also had to actively play a role in the project management and take turns as SCRUM master. The project itself was worked on for 2 semesters. My primary role on the project was as an engine developer in which I wrote various engine components for the game (UI engine, rendering, assets, etc). We used C++ and the Marmalade SDK.