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Carté Diem

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Carté Diem is a multiplayer deck building 2D action platformer, about a robot who encounters rivals and aims to be the best card battler.

We are still in early development of this game. The following information is not entirely accurate as we have pivoted from the low latency phone controllers to provide a fully networked low latency multiplayer experience for PC. We are still building an action arena card game but, we will have to put our phone controllers on pause for the time being.

Island Hopper

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Island Hopper is a mobile AR game about saving stump people from a volcano eruption. Saving them involves searching around and under the island for resources to build a bridge for the islanders to cross to a new paradise.

This project is a joint-effort with iNK Stories and Verizon, as well as a talented group of developers/designers ( Roman Sharf and Jenna Dancel). Island Hopper utilizes 5G to accelerate gameplay performance, so players can play for longer periods of time with:

UGUIDOTS

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Grab it here on GitHub

Shaders

Buttons

Closing

Anchoring

Batching

Features

Custom Fill Shaders
Button States/Color Support
Closing panel support
Anchoring & Scaling
Static Batching to reduce draw calls

UGUIDots is a Data Oriented Tech Stack library aimed to bridge the gap in between Unity’s WYSIWYG UI (UGUI), the Entity Component System, and Unity’s Scriptable Render Pipeline (SRP). This is a low level library which augments on top of Unity’s UI and does not serve as a complete replacement to UGUI, but an additional enhancement.

Reactive Disposal

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Grab it here on GitHub

Due to the original voltile nature of the early days of DOTS, we have not had the time to update this system and it is now archived. Rules of BlobAssets have been updated, so the example is no longer valid. For more information about BlobAsset, we recommend you visit Unity’s Entities testing package and view the BlobificationTests.cs file.

About

Reactive Disposal is a small utility to reduce the boiler plate of having to manually release memory. This does so by tracking the life times using Unity ECS rules of SystemState Components and checking if an entity received a new tag which marks the disposal of the unmanaged memory.

Taskflow Part 2

Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:00:16 -0400

Writing a fluent Task API in C# & .NET Pt. 2

TaskFlow Part 1

Tue, 04 Mar 2025 15:26:37 -0500

Writing a fluent Task API in C# & .NET

Additive Scene Groups

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Grab it here on Gitlab

Features

Combine multiple scenes into a group to be loaded additively in Unity
Auto-resolve scene groups that share the same scenes
Editor tool:
- Save scene groups in the editor and load them later with a click of a button
- Sort through groups for quick access

Motivation

When it comes to working solo on a project, it is very easy to dump every game object and prefab into one scene and just make it work. Sometimes you might need to add a new scene for a new level, but at any time in the game, there is generally one scene active. However, when working collaborately, having single scenes leads to problems:

BOB (Bag of Beliefs)

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Screenshot of the final product of BoB at the Gladstone Gallery.

Bag of Belief is an every growing chimeric serpent that attempts to adapt to new stimuli and build routines to cope with them created by artist Ian Cheng.

Roles

Developed sensors for BoB, the chimera
Developed APIs to allow real life sensory input to affect BoB’s nodes
Developed shader visualizations for easier time debugging
Optimized runtime to ensure BoB can keep up with the total # of sensory inputs from the audience

C TaskGraph

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

C TaskGraph (WIP)

C TaskGraph is a small light weight taskgraph that allows you to create Task structs to run on separate threads written in C99 std. The initial target platforms for support are

Cell to Singularity

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Steam Android iOS

Created by Computer Lunch, Cell to Singularity is an educational idle clicker game that explores the evolution of life and our world.

Creatures of War

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Get it on Steam

We worked with Chaos Entertainment to create Creatures of War: a 2D horror shooter about saving a VIP and a missing squad from an island full of bio-engineered dinosaurus. The game has over 20 hours of content and a gripping story written by Interstellar Garden. Check it out on Steam!

Dani AI API

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

All classes and types belong in the IntialPrefabs.DaniAI namespace.

Action

A customizable task that can agent can perform.

public abstract class InitialPrefabs.DaniAI.Action : AINode

Properties

Type	Name	Summary
ActionState	CurrentState	The current status of the action.

Methods

Type	Name	Summary
void	OnActionEnd(ActionState state)	Overridable method that is called when the action completes.
void	OnActionStart()	Overridable method that is called when the action begins.
ActionState	OnActionUpdate()	Overridable method that is called when the action is currently running. Actions will run continously until this method returns ActionState.Success or ActionState.Fail.

ActionState

Describes the current running state of an action.

Dani AI Manual

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Welcome to Dani AI’s manual. This manual will provide a brief overview of Dani AI’s architecture and workflow.

Getting Started

Installation

Download Dani AI from the Unity Asset Store.
Import the downloaded Unity package into your project.

Updating Dani AI

To safely update an older version of Dani AI to a newer version:

Dreamwall

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Official Site

DXTLabs is a local research firm based in Brooklyn, New York that focuses on neurotech to enhance everyday lives. Dreamwall is a prototype that enables users to control their smart home devices via thought patterns. We believe that this would vastly improve the quality of life for disabled and elderly folks.

Roles

Created the backend for Dreamwall (framework and communication between devices)
Created support for the following smarthome device setups
- Amazon Switchbot
- Philips Hue

Emmisary Sunsets the Self

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Emissary Sunsets the Self is the conclusion to Ian Cheng’s trilogy where a civilation is developed and every agent in the simulation needs to meet their own needs. This includes:

survival needs (food / water)
social needs (playing with others, conflict, etc)

Roles

Developed a Utility Theory based AI Editor allowing the team the design the agent’s behaviours and monitor their needs
Optimized runtime to ensure that simulation can run hundreds of agents simultaneously while keeping framte rate at 60 FPS.

Above is an example of the Editor we had build for the team. Image is taken from Emissary's Guide to Worlding by Ian Cheng.

Gestalt: Steam & Cinders

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Get it on Steam

Roles

Developed enemy AI with sensory data to better detect the player hitboxes
Developed bindings of sprites to animation data for more accurate collisions and animation syncing
Developed walljump mechanic allowing the protagonist to slide down the wall and face the correct state
Developed relative transform system allowing Transforms to be consistent regardless of how the sprite faces without flipping the scale

Hypercastle Explorers

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Official Site

Roles

Developed parser that reads Mathcastles’ Terraforms
Serialized parsed Terraforms into a memory mapped file with async read/write to prepare all level data
- Developed an Editor for the packer pulling all terraforms per level and building them into a compressed binary format
Transcribed original Terraforms svg animations to Unity with similar playbacks
Developed client interfacing with RESTful APIs allowing users to pull dedicated Terraforms that they ‘own’
Developed Hypercastle’s renderer using a simple text layout engine to render custom fonts

InitialPrefabs.ImportOverrides

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Grab it here on GitHub Grab it here on OpenUPM

Unity’s texture importer provide a list of default settings for manual editing. However, if you are trying to automate those importers, you need to go through

With those 2 structs, you would typically set them on the texture importer through an AssetImporter.

InitialPrefabs.Msdf

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Grab it here on GitHub

MSDF or multi signed distance field is a method to render high quality fonts with sharp corners. We utilize the R, G, and B channels and create signed distance fields per channel and take the median to create sharp corners. Compared to regular SDF rendering, we do not need to upscale the texture as much utilizing less disk space.

Inwards VR

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Official Site

Inwards VR is a short game about exploring your inner morals and self-discovery. You arrived at a mystical place where every concious action, from growing trees to tending a bear, weaves a story about you. We worked with VRWiz to make this project a reality.

Roles

Created an AI to weave story narratives together based on player actions
Developed the game for the Quest 1, Vive, and Windows Mixed Reality devices
Optimized the game to run on 72 FPS on devices with the following constraints:
- Realtime tree generation
- Rendering a forest on mobile VR headsets

Kitty in the Box 2

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Official Site

If it fits, it sits.

Kitty in the Box 2 is a mobile game in collaboration with Mokuni Games, where the goal is to guide a kitty into a box.

Roles

Created custom editor tools to speed up level creation
Optimized the game to run on weaker mobile devices (low-end 2015 devices)

Kitty in the Box XR

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Official Site

Kitty in the Box VR is a collaboration with Mokuni Games, where the goal is to bonda and nuture a lost kitty. Purchase toys, tease with laser pointers and feed it cookies for a relaxing sandbox experience.

Roles

Created the framework to create new worlds ingame
Optimized the game to run at least 60 FPS on the following devices:
- HTC Vive
- Pico
- Quest 1

Kung Fu Kickball

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Kung Fu Kickball is developed by Whalefood Games and is a team based fighting sports game where the best ball-kicker wins! Punch, kick, and headbutt your way across the field to slam the ball into your opponents’ bell and rack up points!

Credits to Whalefood Games for the description (please see the link above).

It is currently released for

Roles

Implemented a machine learning agent based on following paper in Unity using ML Agents

Name in Lights

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Official Site

Name in Lights is a multiplayer game designed for stadiums, created as a collaboration between ESC Game Theater and Orc Punk, a fellow studio in Gumbo.

Roles

Built the framework for the game using ESC’s SDKs in Unity
Optimized the game to handle over 100 concurrent players

NFL Ultratoss

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

View the Patent

NFL Ultratoss is a join collaboration between Juncture Media and Verizon, using 5G to create a massively multiplayer experience for football fans in stadiums. This project was a result of a local game jam provided by Playcrafting NYC and Verizon. We had a lot of fun learning what 5G was capable of!

NimGUI

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Asset Store Documentation

NimGUI Logo

UI Code Example

Demo GUI

NimGui is short for Nimble Immediate Mode General User Interface and is a graphical user library for Unity’s runtime.

Survival Shooter

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

The Survival Shooter tutorial walks you through the basic workflow of using Dani AI. It is a reimplementation of Unity’s Survival Shooter using Dani AI’s capabilities.

Requirements

Dani AI v1.0
Unity 2017.3 or later
- If you are using Unity 5.5, you do not need the UnityEngine.AI namespace in this tutorial

Installation

For a full reference to the complete project, you can clone the repository or download the zip on our Gitlab Page. Note that the project lives under the namespace InitialPrefabs.DaniAI.Tutorials.

The Poetry of Water

Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Looking Glass

Looking glass is a meditative XR experience using realtime EEG signals. The mastermind behind the concept is Jason J. Snell: a creative based in New York who specializes in using biological data to create emerging music composition and visualizations.

InitialPrefabs on initialPrefabs

Carté Diem

Island Hopper

UGUIDOTS

Features

Reactive Disposal

About

Taskflow Part 2

TaskFlow Part 1

Additive Scene Groups

Features

Motivation

BOB (Bag of Beliefs)

Roles

C TaskGraph

Table Of Contents

C TaskGraph (WIP)

Cell to Singularity

Creatures of War

Dani AI API

Action

Properties

Methods

ActionState

Dani AI Manual

Getting Started

Installation

Updating Dani AI

Dreamwall

Roles

Emmisary Sunsets the Self

Roles

Gestalt: Steam & Cinders

Roles

Hypercastle Explorers

Roles

InitialPrefabs.ImportOverrides

InitialPrefabs.Msdf

Inwards VR

Roles

Kitty in the Box 2

Roles

Kitty in the Box XR

Roles

Kung Fu Kickball

Roles

Name in Lights

Roles

NFL Ultratoss

NimGUI

Survival Shooter

Requirements

Installation

The Poetry of Water

Looking Glass