Jay Sharp

Looking for work in a Software / Development Field.
Enjoy being part of a team and helping out wherever possible. Pride myself on my punctuality, efficiency and work quality. Always wanting to learn and adapt to new challenges.

Accomplished Games Development student, pursuing career in software development and gaining practical experience to further my knowledge. Experienced working in Teams.

Versed in multiple programming languages and development frameworks. Partners successfully across teams to achieve project objectives. Analytical in approaching and resolving design problems.

Projects

3D Gravity-bending Platformer

● Made using Godot Engine 3.5 in the GDScript language.

● Taking inspiration from the Mario Galaxy Games I recreated their unique gravity systems
and a basic set of the player’s movement abilities.

● The created gravity systems give the level designer complete control over how the
player is affected by gravity with a variety of Gravity Fields which all have unique behaviours. The different Fields include:

● For Fields to work I created empty Classes with functions and variables defined as a work-around to GDScript not having a C# Interface equivalent.

● Utilising Godot’s built-in octree spatial partitioning in the physics engine, Gravity Fields that won’t affect an Entity don’t do any calculations for them.

3D & 2D Inverse Kinematics Plugin for Godot

● Made using Godot Engine 3.5 in the GDScript Language.

● Inverse Kinematics is used for dynamic animations. A common use case for this is
aligning feet to the floor they’re standing on.

● Due to limitations of Godot’s in-built Inverse Kinematics in which it cannot be used
without a mesh, I made my own implementation that overcame the limitations.

● As a result, this tool was able to Attach objects to the individual bones of another object
while staying completely decoupled from the object they’re attached to.

● For one it could be created, accessed and used without mesh.

● All bone attributes could be changed in-engine and in real-time without external tools.

2D Endless Runner

● Made using the Unity Game Engine in C#.

● Taking inspiration from the Mobile game Geometry Dash I made an Endless runner
using mechanics from that game.

● Using a procedural generation method where I use building blocks that append onto the
previous block to create a chain of obstacles which in turn avoids impossible situations
i.e Gaps too wide or ledges too high to jump up to.

● One of the obstacles taken from Geometry Dash is the Gravity Inverter which swaps the
direction the player falls.

Education Projects
3D Procedural Tower Defence

● Made using Godot Engine 3.5 in the GDScript language.

● Player defends increasingly difficult waves of varied enemies using a selection of
defences.

● Utilised procedural generation to extend the Enemy’s path along with the map.

● I performed R&D for improving the performance of a computationally expensive
GDScript by re-writing it in C#.

● The project also experimented with merging multiple towers into stronger forms but the
feature was scrapped due to time constraints.

3D Spaceship Arena Shooter

● Made using Unreal Engine 4 with Blueprints. (Visual Scripting)

● Player ship has a Lead Indicator to help with aiming at moving targets.

● Enemy ships fly as a swarm, appearing to have more intelligent behaviour by using a
Boids algorithm.

● Player’s progress through Arenas is saved and an individual Arena can reload itself
seamlessly when the player respawns.

• Game Design
• Software Engineering
• Swimming
• Cycling

Received The Open University, The Ogden Trust School Physicist of the Year Award for Local Schools.

LINKS

Email: jaysharp.lee@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jay-sharp

Itch.io: dorcat.itch.io

Github: github.com/Jay-Dorcat

Twitter/X: x.com/DorcatDev

Website: jay-dorcat.github.io