Advising Summary

In addition to echoes and my formal teaching load, I advise a variety of student projects. This varies from small, individual research projects to long-term team game development projects.

Games

Spell Code , Bit Forward, MS GDD Capstone Faculty Committee, 2026

Love is Brewing , G.O.O.L., MS GDD Capstone Faculty Committee, 2025

TETHERPUNK , The Spacies, Production Studio, MAGIC Community Incubator, 2025

- RPI Gamefest 2023 Experimental Games Finalist
- EDGE 2024 Technical Excellence Winner
- MAGIC Community Incubator, 2025-26

Bat Bots , Yesteryear Games, IGME-601 Instructor, 2024

- IGM Roll Your Own Co-Op Supervisor, Summer 2024
- Published by MAGIC Spell Studios, November 2024

Thunderclap , Nimbus Cove, MS GDD Capstone Faculty Committee, 2024

Eternal Sol , Grapefruit Smoothies (Joseph Hong, Julien Chaulot, Alex Parrotto, Tom Cui, Parth Rustagi), MS GDD Capstone Instructor, 2023

Flintlock’d , HitStun (Zach Erickson, CJ Knapp, Ajay Ramnarine), MS GDD Capstone Instructor, 2023

Into the Babyverse , Archit Vishnoi, MS GDD Capstone Instructor, 2023

Remember Wonder , The H.O.A. (Brody Davison, Matthew Palermo, Ming Wu, Patrick Mitchell), MS GDD Capstone Instructor, 2023

Texas Throw ‘Em , The Four Horsemen (Raj Barot, Robley Evans, Mason Gaw, Pruthviraj Solanki), MS GDD Capstone Instructor, 2023

The Pact , The Mason Jars (Aditya Patil, David Liu, Jackson Shuminski, Joel Shaji Kuriakose, Kesavan Shanmugasundaram), MS GDD Capstone Instructor, 2023

When Push Comes To Shove , Two Wolves (Nuha Syed, Ben Schlegel, Sean Foley, Mason Hayes, Destiny Treptau), MS GDD Capstone Instructor, 2023

Within These Walls , The Tri-Hards (Corinne Fair, Gel Howell, Katarina Tretter), MS GDD Capstone Instructor, 2023

A Taste of Culture , Too Many Cooks, IGME-601, MAGIC Maker, 2022

Boiling Over , Plush Bunch, IGME-601, Production Studio, MAGIC Maker, 2022

- RPI Gamefest 2022 & RIT Student Game Showcase 2022 game impact award winner

Fight to the Top , Copper Punch (Ben Stern, Lingxiao Yu), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2022

Mending Hearts , Berry-Stained Corset (Emily Horton, Rye Ress, Veronica Vitale, Hanrui Zhang), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2022

Nocturnum , Team Hollow (Triton Adamski, Pulkit Juneja, Jason Kulp, Shubham Sachdeva, Aditya Sinha), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2022

The Shattering Swords , Bladesmiths (Nick Engell, Trenton Plager, Kyle Weekley, John Vance, Rudy Zhang), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2022

- RPI Gamefest 2022 Technical Excellence Finalist

Through the Lens , Hungry Turtle Studios (Wren Bernstein, Gavriel Miles, Abigail Markish, Yuan “Alfie” Luo, David Patch), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2022

A Demon Killed My Babushka , Swole Team Six (Israel Anthony, Nicholas Bazos, Jarrett Briody, Coehl Gleckner, Robert MacLeod), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2021

Bit To Beat , From Nothing (Jiayan Li, Michael Berger), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2021

Just Chefin , No Hassles Productions (Joshua Issac, Abhishek Panhale, Yuanchao Liu), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2021

LUDUS , RoManS (Suryanarayanan Ajayakumar, Mansoor Basha Patan, Rongyi Zhao), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2021

X-iled , DND (David Knolls, Nathan Glick, David Liu), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2021

A Deer of Nine Colors , Craftsman (Weihao Yan, Yun Jiang, Yijun Wu, Olly Ting Xin), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2020

D.I.V.E. , D.I.V.E. (Haoyu Guo, Zheyu Zhang, Yiyan Wang, Jiayi Jiang), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2020

Super Collider , 200lbs of Fish (Jeff Bauer, Mark DelFavero, Victor Shu), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2020

The Falcon Project , (Alabhya Maheshwari, Giovanni Aleman, Sadanand Naik, Shantanu Jamble), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2020

The Wizard’s Code , Herman McElveen, MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2020

Vigorus , Hagicians (Huadong Zhang, Naifu Cui, Lingna Ge), MS GDD Capstone Process Advisor, 2020

DreaMeScape , Walk the Plank Studios, MS GDD Capstone Faculty Committee, 2019

Research

Facilitating Mutual Investment in Student Game Design and Development Teams , Max White, MS GDD Capstone Research Advisor, 2026

Retrospectives in Game Development Student Projects , Sofia Rivas, MS GDD Capstone Research Advisor, 2026

Software Architecture to Facilitate Rapid Tooling , Pranav Rajnish, MS GDD Capstone Research Advisor, 2025

- Best 3-Minute Oral Presentation Runner-up, RIT Graduate Showcase

Hybrid Replay System , Mike Santos, MS GDD Capstone Research Advisor, 2024

Understanding gaps between established Software Engineering Process knowledge and its actual implementation , Sayantika Bhattacharya, MS SE Thesis Advisor, 2020

Process Discovery & Conformance Analysis , Raseshwari Pulle, MS SE Capstone Advisor, 2019