Game Art & Development
Game Art & Development
Derek Baert
Derek is a programmer and game designer with a love for experimental media and horror. He is also a graduate of the BIT Program, where he focused on Programming and Web Development.
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Rift City Rebels is a Platform fighter set in a near-future Winnipeg. It was the final group project in my college program, developed by 6 Developers and 12 Artists over the course of 4 months.
Working with a team of this size on a larger project has been a very challenging but rewarding experience so far, with many opportunities to develop our skills in terms of keeping the scope of the project reasonable while still making something we are proud of.
My primary contributions to Rift City Rebels included developing the character Warden, including his backstory, and moveset and design, developing a dynamic camera system to showcase the action, systems to track player choices, and integration of cinematics before and after the matches.
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Spearguy is a single player adventure game inspired by classic 2D Zelda games. It was developed for my game design class, which required me to develop a single mechanic, then build challenges and a level for that mechanic over the course of a term.
This project was a valuable experience in regards to planning and completing a small project as a solo developer.
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Virtual House Editor is a project I worked on as the sole developer alongside three artists for our work placement. This was done in collaboration with an external client, who wanted a virtual walkthrough to showcase their custom home services.
Learning to work with an external client to determine the type of product that we could build to meet their vision without going out of scope was a valuable learning experience for our team, who up until that point had only worked on small, self directed projects. The final product was also quite impressive in terms of what we were able to achieve in a short period of time.
Drelvin Loui Dionisio
3D hardsurface, environment, and mecha enthusiast. It all starts with a cube.
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My final piece contributing to Rift City Rebel's Esplanade Stage - the Anaheim Nightingale. My task was to imagine a concept car inspired by multiple Japanese imported vehicles imagined to fit in a post-catastrophic solar-punk world. This was my first delve into car modeling, researching both real-world designs as well as delving into stylized artistic styles while simultaneously learning more about hard surface.
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The Jesta from Unicorn Gundam, modeled in Maya, textured in Substance Painter and rendered in Unreal Engine 5.
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A zombie character model created for a game development course. It was originally created via photogrammetry with RealityCapture, polished through zBrush and textured using Substance Painter.
Diana Hidalgo
Hi everyone, I'm Diana! I'm a passionate Environment/Prop artist for games. I play Valorant for fun.
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The monocycle was one of the environmental background assets I made for our final term brawler game, Rift City Rebels.
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This was my final portfolio piece for one of my classes in Game Dev. I made the overall concept from scratch and did all of the environmental assets as well as the character model in the scene.
Annie Wiebe
Annie Wiebe is an irreverent character artist who loves pretty things and bright colours. If you plan to talk to her about character design, 3D sculpting, modeling, or texturing, be prepared for soulful eye contact and maybe even a wistful sigh or two.
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EK-0 is a playable character in the platform fighting game, Rift City Rebels. Created by greedy businessman Elias Kane, EK-0 seeks to explore the world and forge their own path.
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Adapted from photogrammetry data, this project was created to explore realistic sculpting and texturing techniques.
Jetro De Leon
Hi, I'm Jetro De Leon, a programmer with passion for NPC AI development.
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Flagger VR is a traffic control training VR simulator created during a 3-month internship with Bit Space Development. This project was designed to elevate flagger safety and effectiveness within the construction industry by providing trainees with a realistic environment to practice skills, navigate various scenarios, and respond to potential hazards without real-world risks.
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Rift City Rebels is a multiplayer platform fighting game where the objective is to knock opponents off the stage. Players can engage in local multiplayer matches against others or face off against AI opponents. The game is developed in UE5 by 6 programmers and 12 artists.
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Cult of the Draglops is a fantasy sci-fi 2.5D action platformer where you play as a cyber wizard tasked to destroy the Draglops and its cult.
Jyotsna Singla
Hii! I'm a 3D Artist with a Ambition, I always have something to work towards & love a good challenge!
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Meet "Koas" the band FATALYST member but was struck by an energy surge in the exclusion zone leaving their lead guitarist, Kaos, as the sole survivor. In exchange, he gained fame, power and an insatiable thirst for dominance within the zone.
He is one of the seven characters of our final term game, Rift City Rebels.
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This is my last internship project under Complex Games. Working on Valkyrie Hard Surface model was fun and challenging.
June Pagé
June is a technical artist with a passion for shaders, vfx, stylized 3D, game design, animation, storyte— ☐:☐[99]//[ERROR]//: PASSION OVERFLOW DETECTED
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Rift City Rebels is a platform fighter and was our final term game project! I developed our character material, outline, and lighting system, as well as many character specific effects. I also led the design of Transit, one of the game's two stages, and I contributed environment assets, character and environment animations, and even voice talent!
Having spent over half my life playing games like Super Smash Bros and Rivals of Aether, it was a lot of fun to get to design and create our own take on the genre.
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This piece was a fun challenge: turning a very stylized 2D look into a real-time 3D character. The most interesting part was definitely the fire effect. The final solution turns niagara particles into a screen-space metaball effect with an intentionally reduced frame rate to mimic the look of 2D animation. The niagara systems even react to the speed of the character, changing properties to keep the effect natural and consistent as the character transitions from idle to run to jump and back again.
Kim Ly
Kim is a 3D character artist and digital illustrator who loves all things cute and horror!
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Meet Matcha, the fun-loving fearless snowboarder! She is one of the seven playable characters of our final term game, Rift City Rebels!
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This project started off as an introduction to photogrammetry, where we photo scanned our heads and reprojected the details onto a game-res head. Afterwards, we used that as a base to sculpt over and turn into zombies. Super fun!
Levi Zacharias
3D Generalist with a passion for character tech art and animation. Born to tell stories.
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I was the character artist in charge of creating Signe, the Tiny Berserker! Concept art was done by Takkaya Leeladechakul. I was also the lead animator for both Signe and Matcha, the Snowboarder! June Pagé and I developed the character rigging workflow to be flexible for the whole cast, and easily accessible to all the artists and animators that were on the project.
Check my Artstation for more!
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Based on the concept art by Luke Fisher.
A big part of my skillset is a deep understanding of hard surface modeling in Maya. I love painting informed wear and tear in Substance Painter, and this was my first time rendering in Marmoset Toolbag.
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This little guy started as a scan of myself, which then got cleaned and sculpted in ZBrush. A game-res head was then wrapped onto it for good topology, which is when the sculpting really got started. The finer details were added with a mix of hand placed alpha brushes, and applied with displacement maps from texturing.xyz.
Marissa Rowles-stewart
Hello, I'm Marissa! I'm a programmer with a passion for front end development and all things sci-fi. My favourite games include Fallout 4, Mass Effect 2, and Portal 2!
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Rift City Rebels is a smash-style fighting game developed in Unreal Engine 5 over the course of 5 months, with a team of 19 all working together; 6 programmers, 12 artists, and one musician.
This was the final game I developed for the Game Development course. I was the lead programmer in relation to front end development, developing the core systems allowing our players to use a controller on user interfaces like the main menu and character select.
This was a great experience in realizing my strengths and weaknesses in a large project like this.
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Fear The Abyss, a 2.5D action-horror platformer, was developed in Unreal Engine 5 over two months by a team of six: two programmers, three artists, and one musician.
My role encompassed the entirety of front-end development; which was not limited to the main menu, options menu, and the visual novel-style dialogue system.
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Goblin Hunt
Goblin Hunt is a VR game prototype developed in Unreal Engine 5 over three weeks with a team of 3; one programmer (me) and two artists.
My job in this game covered everything programming wise, from the enemies, to the throwing, to the text on the sign. My biggest feat in this game was making the bombs you catch and throw feel heavy enough that you don't feel like your throwing a balloon, but also light enough that you don't have to be the worlds best baseball pitcher to hit the far cannon.
Nicole Hamm
3D Artist with a main focus on character and creature sculpts, and interest in hard surface as well.
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The corrupt CEO, a playable fighter in Rift City Rebels.
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Alien shark creature sculpted in Zbrush.
Nat Mogk
There's only two things I love more than games. My cat and my mom – in no order.
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Out of the 7 fighters in Rift City Rebels, I was tasked with working on the two echo fighters: the corrupted businessman, Elias Kane, and his rebellious robot copy, EK-0!
I worked on developing their move sets and created the particles for their basic attacks.
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I was one of the main helpers on the UI team for Rift City Rebels! I was in charge of the results screen UI as well as the in-game UI, main menu, level select, and credits screen.
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Worked on by a team of 5 - Phantom Pursuit is a game about a hiker searching for their lost sibling and getting trapped inside a hidden underground facility.
My main contribution was the flare reloading system where I had to learn how to make drag-and-drop interactable UI elements!
Ruiguang Nie
Hey there! I'm a 3D artist passionate about translating 2D paintings into immersive 3D experiences through environmental design!
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The tree asset serves as the decorative background element in the Transit Level of Rift City Rebels.
Sujal Naroia
Sujal is an AI and Gameplay programmer with the interest to create immersive games for the player to
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Rift City Rebels - Kite
In Rift City Rebels, Kite is the embodiment of speed. His playstyle is quick and snappy. Every attack is calculated, and every enemy is taken care of before they can even blink.
Kite's high skill ceiling gameplay was a great challenge to overcome as I learned a lot about character balancing,. This taught me all sorts of attributes players like and dislike, which was tested through continuous iteration and outside playtesting.
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Phantom Pursuit is a puzzle horror platformer where the player must solve puzzles using light while being chased by an eldritch horror.
My responsibility in this project was to create the core gameplay elements such as Flares, Light Sensors, and The Monster.
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Elephant Dave is a 12 person final high school project. It's a 3D open world prototype showcasing different systems that the students wanted to specialize in. The plot is "A fracture in time has cause the continent to be split into 7 different time era's."
Sean Piche
Sean Piche is a programmer with a passion for tools development, networking and gameplay programming.
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Phasmonica is a multiplayer VR hide and seek experience. One player takes the place of the hider; dawning a VR headset they must find one of many hiding spots scattered throughout the map.
My Role on This Project:
I was the network engineer and tools programmer.
As the network engineer, I was responsible for handling network replication and game hosting.
For my tools programming role I developed systems to help with set dressing, such as a chair grid placing tool and a snap to wall tool.
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Cactus Shootout Reloaded is a wild wacky dueling game in which you and up to 7 friends are able to duel it out in VR.
My Role on This Project:
I took on the role of network engineer. This task involved dealing with a large amount of network optimization to replicate IK rigs efficiently.
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Acornia 64 is a retro 3D platformer where you play as Auri, a fearless and incompetent acorn in search of a new home for his people.
My Role on This Project:
Everything besides a few textures and audio has been created by myself. I have used this project as a test bed for testing different features and coding strategies. One of these features was my first attempt at online networking.
Takkaya Leeladechakul
I'm thrilled to have graduated from the Game Development Art program—it's a wonderful achievement!
Winson Ta
Winson is a 3DCG artist that is passionate about the process of creating characters and creatures and breathing life to them in virtual worlds. With a specialized background in professional wrestling, you can feel the unique flavour that he brings to his work!
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The mutant cyborg ninja rabbit of Rift City known as Kite! He's fast and stylish! A melee rushdown character playable in Rift City Rebels.
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A project I worked on during my first year in Game Development. I created a real-world scale 3D model of my favourite Gundam.
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I designed and created the imaginary idea if the Pandaren race in Warcraft could be Druid class, how would their bear form look like? This was for a Blizzard art contest that had a 6k tri limit.
Land Acknowledgement
We would like to acknowledge that we've been privileged to complete our studies on Treaty 1 territory; the traditional gathering place of the Anishinaabe, Cree, Oji-Cree, Dakota and Dene people and the traditional homeland of the Métis people.