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
- EDGE 2024 Technical Excellence Winner
- MAGIC Community Incubator, 2025-26
Bait and Tackle , Bad Bass Games, Production Studio, MAGIC Maker, 2025
Bat Bots , Yesteryear Games, IGME-601 Instructor, 2024
- Published by MAGIC Spell Studios, November 2024
Libertalia: A Pirate's Paradise , Five Sheets to the Wind, MS GDD Capstone Faculty Committee, 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
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
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
To Carry a Sword: It's About the People Who Need You , We Three Nouns (Richard S. Hetley, Soahm Korgaokar, Enan Munzar, Elliot Privateer, TingYu Chang), 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
Value-focused Retrospectives to Guide echoes’ Production Process Improvement , Will Tallarico, echoes VIP, 2025
Hybrid Replay System , Mike Santos, MS GDD Capstone Research Advisor, 2024
Characterizing the Impact of Perfectionism on MS GDD Students , Kyle James, MS GDD Capstone Research Advisor, FIE 2024, 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